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.
Intimate Citizenships: Gender, Sexualities, Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Elżbieta H. Oleksy
July 27, 2012
This volume responds to the need to extend the theory of citizenship, in order to bridge the gap between the public and the private sphere. Through the application of intersectional methodology, the authors document how people’s most private decisions and practices are intertwined with public ...
Migrant Men: Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike Donaldson, Raymond Hibbins, Richard Howson, Bob Pease
July 27, 2012
This edited volume contributes an important collection of chapters to the growing theoretical and empirical work being undertaken at the international level on men and migration. The chapters presented here focus on what we might call ‘migratory masculinities': the experiences men have of ...
Understanding Non-Monogamies
1st Edition
Edited
By Meg Barker, Darren Langdridge
July 27, 2012
Most social scientific work on intimate relationships has assumed a monogamous structure, or has considered anything other than monogamy only in the context of 'infidelity'. Yet, in recent years there has been a growing interest among researchers and the public in exploring various patterns of ...
Global Empowerment of Women: Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions
1st Edition
Edited
By Carolyn M. Elliott
April 05, 2012
The empowerment of women is a broadly endorsed strategy for solving a host of difficult problems, from child poverty to gender violence to international development. The seventeen international scholars in this multi-disciplinary volume offer thoughtful critiques of the notion of empowerment based ...
Body, Femininity and Nationalism: Girls in the German Youth Movement 1900–1934
1st Edition
By Marion E.P. de Ras
February 23, 2012
This social and cultural history of girls in the German youth movements in the pre-Nazi era brings fascinating new light to bear on the history of the German youth movements. It contributes to our wider understanding of girlhood in the period, and investigates how mentalities, collective identities...
A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self
1st Edition
By Louise du Toit
February 03, 2012
This book offers a critical feminist perspective on the widely debated topic of transitional justice and forgiveness. Louise Du Toit examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women’s or ‘feminine’ subjectivity and selfhood. She demonstrates how the ...
Gender, Welfare State and the Market: Towards a New Division of Labour
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Boje, Arnlaug Leira
December 08, 2011
This volume represents the present state of theoretical debate in welfare state scholarship, drawing on research from western Europe, North America and Japan. It therefore provides a valuable balance of breadth and detail from the broad international overview to comparisons between specific welfare...
Migration, Domestic Work and Affect: A Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labor
1st Edition
By Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez
December 08, 2011
Domestic and care work in private households is now the largest employment sector for migrant women. This book sheds light on these households through its focus on the interpersonal relationships between Latin American “undocumented migrant” domestic workers and employers in Austria, Germany, Spain...
Theorizing Sexual Violence
1st Edition
Edited
By Renée J. Heberle, Victoria Grace
October 11, 2011
Taking sexual violence in the form of rape and hetero-psychological/physical abuse, trafficking, and harassment as a point of departure, the authors of this volume explore questions about the relationship between sex, sexuality and violence in order to better understand the terms on which women's ...
Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race, and Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Chima J. Korieh, Philomina E Okeke-Ihejirika
August 15, 2011
The authors collected in Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race, and Identity probe the effects of global and local forces in reshaping notions of gender, race, class, identity, human rights, and community across Africa and its Diaspora. The ...
Gender, Race and National Identity: Nations of Flesh and Blood
1st Edition
By Jackie Hogan
July 29, 2011
All nations construct stories of national belonging, stories of the nation’s character, its accomplishments, its defining traits, its historical trajectory. These stories, or discourses of national identity, carry powerful messages about gender and race, messages that reflect, reproduce and ...
Inclusive Masculinity: The Changing Nature of Masculinities
1st Edition
By Eric Anderson
June 13, 2011
Drawing on qualitative studies of teamsport athletes and fraternity members, this book describes the rapidly changing world of masculinities among men in both the United States and Great Britain. As cultural homophobia decreases, university-aged men are influenced to construct a softer version of ...