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.
Men's Intrusion, Women's Embodiment: A critical analysis of street harassment
1st Edition
By Fiona Vera-Gray
September 10, 2018
Research on violence against women tends to focus on topics such as sexual assault and intimate partner violence, arguably to the detriment of investigating men’s violence and intrusion in women’s everyday lives. The reality and possibility of the routine intrusions women experience from men in ...
Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women’s Association and Globalization Politics
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Armstrong
August 23, 2018
This book describes the changing landscape of women’s politics for equality and liberation during the rise of neoliberalism in India. Between 1991 and 2006, the doctrine of liberalization guided Indian politics and economic policy. These neoliberal measures vastly reduced poverty alleviation ...
Ageing, Gender and Sexuality: Equality in Later Life
1st Edition
By Sue Westwood
July 30, 2018
Ageing, Gender and Sexuality focuses on the experiences of older lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals, in order to analyse how ageing, gender and sexuality intersect to produce particular inequalities relating to resources, recognition and representation in later life. The book adopts a ...
Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food: Toward an Inclusive Framework
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne C. Bellows, Flavio L.S. Valente, Stefanie Lemke, María Daniela Núñez Burbano de Lara
June 07, 2017
This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural "disconnects" fueling food insecurity for a billion people, and disproportionally affecting women, children, and rural food producers: the separation of women’s rights from their ...
Gendering Globalization on the Ground: The Limits of Feminized Work for Mexican Women’s Empowerment
1st Edition
By Gay Young
March 16, 2017
How has globalization worked for women working on the frontlines of neoliberalism on the Mexico-US border? This border divides "US" from "Others," and produces social inequalities that form a site where marginalized border women encounter the othering power of neoliberalism and confront ...
Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy: Contested Imaginaries in Post-9/11 Cultural Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa K. Taylor, Jasmin Zine
December 20, 2016
Following a long historical legacy, Muslim women’s lives continue to be represented and circulate widely as a vehicle of intercultural understanding within a context of the "war on terror." Following Edward Said’s thesis that these cultural forms reflect and participate in the power plays of empire...
Cross-Cultural Women Scholars in Academe: Intergenerational Voices
1st Edition
Edited
By Lorri J. Santamaría, Gaëtane Jean-Marie, Cosette M. Grant
November 16, 2016
This ground-breaking collection features the diverse voices, experiences, and scholarship of cross-cultural women of American Indian, Asian American, Black/African American and Hispanic descent at various levels of academe, actively engaged in the advancement of marginalized groups in the U.S. and ...
Ecofeminism and Systems Thinking
1st Edition
By Anne Stephens
September 16, 2015
This book brings together two vitally important strands of 20th-century thinking to establish a set of simple and elegant principles for planning, project design and evaluation. It explains the backgrounds of cultural ecofeminism and critical systems thinking, and what we find when they are ...
Street Sex Workers' Discourse: Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice
1st Edition
By Jill McCracken
September 08, 2015
Incorporating the voices and insights of street sex workers through personal interviews, this monograph argues that the material conditions of many street workers — the physical environments they live in and their effects on the workers’ bodies, identities, and spirits — are represented, reproduced...
Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography
1st Edition
By Elisabeth L. Engebretsen
June 08, 2015
Lala (lesbian) and gay communities in mainland China have emerged rapidly in the 21st century. Alongside new freedoms and modernizing reforms, and with mainstream media and society increasingly tolerant, lalas still experience immense family and social pressures to a degree that this book argues is...
Gender, Ethnicity and Political Agency: South Asian Women Organizing
1st Edition
By Shaminder Takhar
February 27, 2015
This book examines how South Asian women’s collective agency is operationalized through civic organizations in the UK. Drawing on black feminist theory and third world feminism, it shows the complexity of political agency and its relationship to identity and subjectivity, and uses empirical ...
Women's Work and Wages
1st Edition
Edited
By Christina Jonung, Inga Persson
December 01, 2014
At a time when women in industrialized countries have a stronger and more permanent presence in the labour market than ever before, why does the gender pay gap differ so greatly between countries? The contributors to this book use empirical studies of gender differences in family responsibilities ...