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1. Global Empowerment of Women

   Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions

   Edited by Carolyn M. Elliott

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   The empowerment of women is a broadly endorsed strategy for solving a host of difficult problems, from child poverty to gender violence to international development. The seventeen international scholars in this multi-disciplinary volume offer thoughtful critiques of the notion of empowerment based...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. Victims, Gender and Jouissance

   By Victoria Grace

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   Victims, Gender and Jouissance presents an in-depth exploration of the concept of the victim. Victoria Grace considers how feminist authors have appropriated this concept in the history of feminist theorising of gender in the West. She offers critical readings of major theorists of victimisation –...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Body, Femininity and Nationalism

   Girls in the German Youth Movement 1900–1934

   By Marion E.P. de Ras

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   This social and cultural history of girls in the German youth movements in the pre-Nazi era brings fascinating new light to bear on the history of the German youth movements. It contributes to our wider understanding of girlhood in the period, and investigates how mentalities, collective identities...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. A Philosophical Investigation of Rape

   The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self

   By Louise du Toit

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   This book offers a critical feminist perspective on the widely debated topic of transitional justice and forgiveness. Louise Du Toit examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women’s or ‘feminine’ subjectivity and selfhood. She demonstrates how the...

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads

   Intersectional Women’s Studies for Transracial Alliance

   Edited by Kim Marie Vaz, Gary L. Lemons

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   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...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
6. Gender, Welfare State and the Market

   Towards a New Division of Labour

   Edited by Thomas Boje, Arnlaug Leira

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   This volume represents the present state of theoretical debate in welfare state scholarship, drawing on research from western Europe, North America and Japan. It therefore provides a valuable balance of breadth and detail from the broad international overview to comparisons between specific welfare...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
7. Migration, Domestic Work and Affect

   A Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labor

   By Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   Domestic and care work in private households is now the largest employment sector for migrant women. This book sheds light on these households through its focus on the interpersonal relationships between Latin American “undocumented migrant” domestic workers and employers in Austria, Germany, Spain...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
8. Contesting the Politics of Genocidal Rape

   Affirming the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body

   By Debra B. Bergoffen

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   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...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
9. Theorizing Sexual Violence

   Edited by Renée J. Heberle, Victoria Grace

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   Taking sexual violence in the form of rape and hetero-psychological/physical abuse, trafficking, and harassment as a point of departure, the authors of this volume explore questions about the relationship between sex, sexuality and violence in order to better understand the terms on which women's...

   Published October 10th 2011 by Routledge
10. Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women

    Diasporic Daughters

    By Youna Kim

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

    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...

    Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge