Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics
About the Book Series
In this series, we aim to publish books that work with, and through, feminist insights on global politics. This series welcomes scholarship on any aspect of global political practices, broadly conceived, that pays attention to the ways in which gender is central to, (re)produced in, and is productive of, such practices. We embrace a broad, intersectional understanding of feminism, politics, and gender, and are open to different theoretical, methodological and disciplinary approaches, including but not limited to queer, decolonial, Indigenous, and posthuman perspectives.
There is growing recognition both within the academy and in global political institutions that gender matters in and to the practices of global politics. From the governance of peace and security, to the provision of funds for development initiatives, and from transnational advocacy networks to justice campaigns, theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded feminist work has highlighted that these processes have a gendered dimension.
The series aims to be genuinely global in scope. We welcome submissions from scholars in/of the global South. Both monographs and edited volume proposals are welcome. The series is also multi-disciplinary, publishing work from across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences with a global aspect and political focus.
Women’s Pathways to Power: Cracking the Glass Ceiling
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Carson
February 03, 2026
Women’s Pathways to Power: Cracking the Glass Ceiling provides an interdisciplinary study of the lingering impediments obstructing women’s access to power to attain democratic equality, comprising the work of eminent women scholars from diverse fields and regions. This book addresses women's ...
The Coloniality of Humanitarian Intervention
1st Edition
By Patrick J. Vernon
October 27, 2025
This book scrutinises the practice of humanitarian intervention to explore the extent to which racism and heteronormativity, rooted in colonial understandings of time and space, are enacted through the UK’s responses, failed responses and non-responses to atrocity crimes. Taking humanitarian ...
Feminist Policymaking in Turbulent Times: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Hannah Partis-Jennings, Clara Eroukhmanoff
May 31, 2024
Feminist Policymaking in Turbulent Times offers a unique and timely reflection of the critical debates around the institutionalisation of feminist and gender-focused ideas and norms into policy. Many states and non-governmental organisations are increasingly invested in ‘feminist policymaking’ at ...
Female Ex-Combatants, Empowerment, and Reintegration: Gendered Inequalities in Liberia and Nepal
1st Edition
By Michanne Steenbergen
September 25, 2023
Female Ex-Combatants, Empowerment, and Reintegration investigates the role of United Nations-led Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) programs in undermining female ex-combatants’ empowerment. The participation of female combatants in conflict has increasingly been recognized in ...
Gender and Political Apology: When the Patriarchal State Says “Sorry”
1st Edition
By Emma Dolan
May 31, 2023
This book provides a much-needed gendered reading to the increasingly important practice of political apology.Engaging in depth with two cases of interstate apologies for conflict-related sexual violence – Japan’s apologies for the South Korean "comfort women" and US apologies for the Abu Ghraib ...
The European Union’s International Promotion of LGBTI Rights: Promises and Pitfalls
1st Edition
By Markus Thiel
May 31, 2023
This book critically analyzes the European Union’s promotion of LGBTI rights in the international arena. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex rights are heavily contested across the globe, with over 70 countries criminalizing same-sex relations and at least 10 imposing the death ...
Civil Society, Care Labour, and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Making 1325 Work
1st Edition
By Caitlin Hamilton, Anuradha Mundkur, Laura J. Shepherd
January 09, 2023
This book proposes that work on the Women, Peace and Security agenda undertaken by civil society actors can be interpreted as a form of care labour that nourishes and sustains the agenda – without which the agenda could not, in fact, succeed. The care labour of civil society is thus a condition of ...
Gender Equality and Nation Branding in the Nordic Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Eirinn Larsen, Sigrun Marie Moss, Inger Skjelsbæk
January 09, 2023
This book explores how gender equality, a central part of the Nordic imaginary, is used in the political communication of Nordic states. The analyses presented move beyond conventional images and discourses of Nordic gender- and women-friendliness by critically investigating how and to what extent ...
Sexual Violence Crimes and Gendered Power Relations: Bringing Justice to Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
1st Edition
By Bilge Sahin
April 29, 2022
This book provides a robust gendered analysis and establishes a feminist approach to international actors’ responses to sexual violence crimes in conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the impact of these global political practices on local gendered power relations. Sexual ...
Young Women and Leadership
1st Edition
Edited
By Katrina Lee-Koo, Lesley Pruitt
December 13, 2021
Through a range of case studies in Asia and the Pacific, this edited collection highlights the extent of the unique ways in which young women lead to create change in their own lives and their communities, as well as in the structures, cultures, and institutions in which they live and work.This ...
International Women’s Rights Law and Gender Equality: Making the Law Work for Women
1st Edition
Edited
By Ramona Vijeyarasa
July 23, 2021
The law is a well-known tool in fighting gender inequality, but which laws actually advance women’s rights? This book unpacks the complex nuances behind gender-responsive domestic legislation, from several of the world’s leading experts on gender equality. Drawing on domestic examples and ...
The Globalization of Gender: Knowledge, Mobilizations, Frameworks of Action
1st Edition
Edited
By Ioana Cîrstocea, Delphine Lacombe, Elisabeth Marteu
March 31, 2021
This book provides an insightful approach to understanding the contemporary circulations of feminist repertoires and shows how the international/transnational circulations of gender are interconnected, even coextensive, with the globalization process itself. Fed by a shared reflexivity on relations...