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.
Gender, Development and Environmental Governance: Theorizing Connections
1st Edition
By Seema Arora-Jonsson
June 02, 2014
A major challenge in studies of environmental governance is dealing with the diversity of the people involved at multiple levels – villagers, development agents, policy-makers, private resource users and others – and taking seriously their aspirations, conflicts and collaborations. This book ...
Homosexuality, Law and Resistance
1st Edition
By Derek McGhee
April 09, 2014
This book explores contemporary social theory and developments in the study of sexuality through the analysis of law and its practices. Each chapter explores the power of discourse in law in relation to homosexualities, while simultaneously examining how homosexuals resist and disrupt these legal ...
Victims, Gender and Jouissance
1st Edition
By Victoria Grace
April 09, 2014
Victimization has a long, cross-cultural history. The status of the victim has been the source of active and stirring controversy in cultural theory, criminology and legal theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis; it is of particular interest within feminist theory. Can the victim relation be refused?...
Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads: Intersectional Women’s Studies for Transracial Alliance
1st Edition
Edited
By Kim Marie Vaz, Gary L. Lemons
September 20, 2013
Women’s studies programs and departments face ongoing fall-out from an economic crisis in higher education. Taking the form of budget-cuts, reduction of faculty lines and other resource allocations, for some programs and departments it has meant at best, a loss of disciplinary autonomy through ...
Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Lives
1st Edition
Edited
By Janice L. Ristock
June 24, 2013
Queer lives remain at the margins of most academic inquiry into domestic violence. When same-sex violence is considered, it is most commonly as an "added on," without close attention to the specificity and meaning of violence within the lives of lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender/Two-Spirit and ...
Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women: Diasporic Daughters
1st Edition
By Youna Kim
June 24, 2013
This book explores the unstudied nature of diaspora among young Korean, Japanese and Chinese women living and studying in the West. Why do women move? What are the actual conditions of their transnational lives? How do they make sense of their transnational lives through the experience of the media...
Contesting the Politics of Genocidal Rape: Affirming the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body
1st Edition
By Debra B. Bergoffen
June 21, 2013
Rape, traditionally a spoil of war, became a weapon of war in the ethnic cleansing campaign in Bosnia. The ICTY Kunarac court responded by transforming wartime rape from an ignored crime into a crime against humanity. In its judgment, the court argued that the rapists violated the Muslim women’s ...
The Gender of Democracy: Citizenship and Gendered Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Maro Pantelidou Maloutas
November 01, 2012
As developments in the European Union and elsewhere make the re-examination of citizenship a pressing issue, this book reflects on the persisting "masculine" character of contemporary democracy and the measures taken in the EU to combat it. Combining a theoretical approach with a specific critique...
Sex Differences in Labor Markets
1st Edition
By David Neumark
September 10, 2012
Sex differences abound in labor markets. In the United States three differences in particular have attracted the most attention: the earnings gap, occupational segregation, and the greater responsibility of women for child care and housework, and consequential lower participation in the labor ...
Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity
1st Edition
Edited
By Sally Hines, Tam Sanger
September 05, 2012
In recent years transgender has emerged as a subject of increasing social and cultural interest. This volume offers vivid accounts of the diversity of living transgender in today's world. The first section, "Emerging Identities," maps the ways in which social, cultural, legal and medical ...
Intimate Citizenships: Gender, Sexualities, Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Elzbieta 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 ...