Book Series

Perspectives on Gender

New & Published Titles:

Feminism and the Women's Movement

Dynamics of Change in Social Movement Ideology and Activism

By Barbara Ryan

In Feminism and the Women's Movement, Barbara Ryan integrates a broad historical view with an analytical framework drawn from the theory of social movements. Relying…

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1992 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90599-2 (Routledge)

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Maid in the U.S.A.

By Mary Romero

Studies of household labor have largely neglected the employment of domestic workers nor have they sufficiently addressed the issue of unpaid housework. Focusing on both…

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1992 | Hardback: 978-0-415-90611-1 (Routledge)

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Understanding Sexual Violence

A Study of Convicted Rapists

By Diana Scully

Understanding Sexual Violence examines the structural supports for rape in sexually violent cultures and dispels a number of myths about sexual violence--for example, that childhood…

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1990 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91108-5 (Routledge)

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Series Details:

Edited by Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Forthcoming Titles:

Equity Without Equality
By Lynn Prince Cooke
To be published July 1st 2009

Global Gender Research: Transnational Perspectives
Edited by Christine Bose, Minjeong Kim
To be published January 26th 2009

Negotiating the Global: Women's Movements in Brazil and the Transnational Feminist Public
By Millie Thayer
To be published January 15th 2009