Gender Books

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1. Tiger Girls: Women and Enterprise in the People's Republic of China

   By Minglu Chen

   The last three decades in the People’s Republic of China have been characterized by decentralization, marketization and privatization. What might be expected from a developing country like China with a significant number of women in the labour force? Do the traditional values of male superiority...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-60013-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights

   Edited by Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcon, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott

   On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights. Interdisciplinary feminist conversations among scholar-activists can both challenge and enrich new directions in feminism and...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-61030-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women

   Edited by Pnina Werbner, Mark Johnson

   The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women migrants from South and South East Asia,...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-59201-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Transnationalism, Migration and Marriage

   Edited by Katherine Charsley

   Transnational migration based on marriage has long contributed substantially to international mobility and has represented a major source of transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ‘secondary’ to labour migration, marriage has until recent years been a...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58653-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Lives

   Edited by Janice L. Ristock

   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...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-99879-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Radical Records (Routledge Revivals): Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History, 1957-1987

   By Bob Cant, Susan Hemmings

   The period between the publication in 1957 of the liberalising Wolfenden Report and the introduction in 1987 of the homophobic Section 28 was characterised by unprecedented optimism and political activism among lesbians and gay men in Britain. But the law and its shortcomings never determined their...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-59114-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India: The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms

   By Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Timothy J. Scrase

   This book fills an important gap in the existing literature on economic liberalization and globalisation in India by providing much needed ethnographic data from those affected by neoliberal globalisation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, it reveals the complexity of the...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-59614-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony: The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan

   By Kaeko Chiba

   This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chado) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, the book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chado system at grass roots level. Making critical use of Bourdieu’s idea...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-55715-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy

   By Travis S. K. Kong

   This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men. It provides a sociological account of masculinity, desire, sexuality, identity and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies, and within the constellation of global culture. Kong...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-45189-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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    Young Women in Japan: Transitions to Adulthood

    By Kaori H. Okano

    This book examines young women in Japan, focusing in particular on their transitions to adulthood, their conceptions of adulthood and relations with Japanese society more generally. Drawing on detailed primary research including a year-long observation of high schools and subsequent interviews over...

    June 2010 | 978-0-415-59051-8 | Paperback (Routledge)