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.
Body Image as an Everyday Problematic: Looking Good
1st Edition
By Félix Martínez
December 12, 2019
It is well known that body image has been associated to health risks related to eating habits. However, to what extent do identity categories, everyday social interaction and common discourses affect our preoccupations and sufferings related to body image in contemporary society, and our ...
Equality Struggles: Women�s Movements, Neoliberal Markets and State Political Agendas in Scandinavia
1st Edition
By Mia Liinason
December 12, 2019
In recent times where European welfare states are undergoing serious economic and social crises and being increasingly exposed to criticism, there has been a noticeable revival of feminist interest in the issues of equality. Focusing on a signature aspect of Scandinavian welfare states, Equality ...
Gendering the Memory of Work: Women Workers� Narratives
1st Edition
By Maria Tamboukou
December 12, 2019
This book explores gendered aspects in the memory of work by looking at auto/biographical narratives and political writings of women workers in the garment industry. The author draws on cutting edge theoretical approaches and insights in memory studies, neo-materialism and discourse analysis, ...
Black Women, Agency, and the New Black Feminism
1st Edition
By Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
December 10, 2019
The powerful Beyoncé, formidable Rihanna, and the incalculable Nikki Minaj. Their images lead one to wonder: are they a new incarnation of black feminism and black women’s agency, or are they only pure fantasy in which, instead of having agency, they are in fact the products of the forces of ...
The Conundrum of Masculinity: Hegemony, Homosociality, Homophobia and Heteronormativity
1st Edition
By Chris Haywood, Thomas Johansson, Nils Hammarén, Marcus Herz, Andreas Ottemo
December 10, 2019
Popular culture is awash with discussions about the difficulties associated with being a man. Television talk shows, media articles and government press releases discuss not simply the problem of men, but have more recently focused on the problems of being a man.The Conundrum of Masculinity ...
Refracting through Technologies: Bodies, Medical Technologies and Norms
1st Edition
By Ericka Johnson
October 23, 2019
This book explores the ‘material-discursive entanglement’ of how we both make the world with our words and how the materiality of the world forces us to put words on it. Beginning with the conundrum of how the things that make up our world are both shaped by and shape the ways in which we talk ...
Wellness in Whiteness: Biomedicalization and the Promotion of Whiteness and Youth among Women
1st Edition
By Amina Mire
September 18, 2019
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351234146, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book analyses the social and ethical implications of the globalization of emerging ...
Genealogies and Conceptual Belonging: Zones of Interference between Gender and Diversity
1st Edition
By Eike Marten
July 31, 2019
Taking recent German debates of diversity terminology as a case example for scrutinizing enactments of genealogy that assume a linear image of progressive generation, this book engages with performative effects of genealogical stories in academic texts that negotiate conceptual belonging. While ...
Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work: The Classical Music Profession
1st Edition
By Christina Scharff
May 21, 2019
What is it like to work as a classical musician today? How can we explain ongoing gender, racial, and class inequalities in the classical music profession? What happens when musicians become entrepreneurial and think of themselves as a product that needs to be sold and marketed? Gender, ...
Sexuality after War Rape: From Narrative to Embodied Research
1st Edition
By Nena Močnik
January 17, 2019
This book examines the potential impact of rape survivors’ traumatic experiences in post-conflict zones. With specific attention given to the experiences of women who were sexually abused during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, it addresses the sexuality of survivors, which has so far been ...
Women, Horseracing and Gender: Becoming 'One of the Lads'
1st Edition
By Deborah Butler
January 17, 2019
How do the class and gender inequalities found in horseracing affect the working practices of women within the industry? Drawing on the work of Bourdieu and his concepts of field, capital and habitus, this book shows the inequalities that are prevalent within the world of racing, both historically ...
The Embodied Performance of Gender
1st Edition
By Jack Migdalek
September 18, 2018
Norms of embodied behaviour for males and females, as promoted in mainstream Western public arenas of popular culture and the everyday, continue to work, overtly and covertly, as definitive and restrictive barriers to the realm of possibilities of embodied gender expression and appreciation. They ...