Routledge Research in Gender and Society
About the Book Series
The social sciences continue to be transformed and enriched by analysis which takes gender, and the ways in which gender and society interact, to be of vital, defining importance. This series is new and broadly based, and will publish high-level contributions from across the disciplines.
Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking in Women: Israel's Blood Money
1st Edition
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By Esther Hertzog, Erella Shadmi
June 30, 2020
This book critically analyzes the sex industry in Israel, using feminist concepts and scholarship to elaborate on the power of prostitution to shape a world in which women are objects for fulfilling men's desires. A comprehensive collection of research-based articles that examine prostitution,...
Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries: Making the Gendered Body in a Globalized World
1st Edition
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By Gabriele Griffin, Malin Jordal
February 25, 2020
Bringing together an international range of case studies and interviews with individuals who have had genital re/construction, Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries explores the socio-cultural meanings of clitoral re/construction following female genital cutting (FGC), hymen reconstruction, ...
Gender and Precarious Research Careers: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
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By Annalisa Murgia, Barbara Poggio
February 25, 2020
The literature on gender and science shows that scientific careers continue to be characterised – albeit with important differences among countries – by strong gender discriminations, especially in more prestigious positions. Much less investigated is the issue of which stage in the career such ...
Masculinities, Sexualities and Love
1st Edition
By Aliraza Javaid
February 25, 2020
It can be said that societies today know little of how gender, sexuality and love interconnect in dissimilar contexts, and how they are collectively shaped by social structures. Underpinned by the theoretical writings of Michel Foucault, Masculinities, Sexualities and Love examines a range of ...
The Romani Women’s Movement: Struggles and Debates in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
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By Angéla Kóczé, Violetta Zentai, Jelena Jovanović, Enikő Vincze
February 25, 2020
The lack of recognition of Romani gender politics in the wider Romani movement and the women’s movements is accompanied by a scarcity of academic literature on Romani women’s mobilization in wider social justice struggles and debates. The Romani Women’s Movement highlights the role that Romani ...
Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships
1st Edition
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By Tuula Juvonen, Marjo Kolehmainen
January 14, 2020
Raising to the challenge of how to grasp such forms of inequalities that are mediated affectively, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships focuses on subtle inequalities that are shaped in everyday affective encounters. It also seeks to bridge a gap between affect theory and empirical ...
Age, Gender and Sexuality through the Life Course: The Girl in Time
1st Edition
By Susan Pickard
January 14, 2020
Age, Gender and Sexuality through the Life Course argues that the gendered structure of temporality (defined in the dual sense of everyday time as well as age and stage of life) is a key factor underpinning the stalling of the gender revolution. Taking as its central focus the idealised young woman...
Girls, Aggression, and Intersectionality: Transforming the Discourse of "Mean Girls" in the United States
1st Edition
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By Krista Mcqueeney, Alicia Girgenti-Malone
January 14, 2020
From media images of "mean girls" to the disproportionate punishment of Black, Latina and/or queer girls in schools and the justice system, female aggression has become a public concern. Scholars, educators, policymakers and parents are scrambling to respond to the perceived upsurge in girls’ ...
Marginalized Masculinities: Contexts, Continuities and Change
1st Edition
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By Chris Haywood, Thomas Johansson
January 14, 2020
Across Europe we are witnessing a series of events that are drawing upon representations of men and masculinity that are rupturing the social fabric of everyday life. For example, media reports of social unrest, misogynous hate crime, religious extremism, drug trafficking and political Far Right ...
Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract
1st Edition
By Petra Bueskens
January 14, 2020
Why do women in contemporary western societies experience contradiction between their autonomous and maternal selves? What are the origins of this contradiction and the associated ‘double shift’ that result in widespread calls to either ‘lean in’ or ‘opt out’? How are some mothers subverting these ...
Beyond Gender: An Advanced Introduction to Futures of Feminist and Sexuality Studies
1st Edition
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By Greta Olson, Mirjam Horn-Schott, Daniel Hartley, Regina Leonie Schmidt
December 12, 2019
Scholars and activists often narrate the history of gender and feminism as a progression of "waves," said to mark high points of innovation in theory and moments of political breakthrough. Arguing for the notion of multiple futurities over that of progressive waves, Beyond Gender combines ...
Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice: The Gendered Dynamics of Power
1st Edition
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By Agnes Bolsø, Stine Svendsen, Siri Sørensen
December 12, 2019
Despite all the efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations. As the intricate relationship between the symbolic and the everyday remains ...