Feminist Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965–1980

   By Kalenda C. Eaton

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Regenerating Bodies

   Tissue and Cell Therapies in the Twenty-First Century

   By Julie Kent

   Series: Genetics and Society

   This exciting book examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialized by new health technologies. Through a discussion of emergent global ‘tissue economies’ the author explores the social dynamics of innovation in the fields of tissue engineering and stem cell...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times

   Researching Educational Inequalities

   Edited by Heidi Mirza, Cynthia Joseph

   This book is a compelling collection of essays on the intersection of race, gender and class in education written by leading black and postcolonial feminists of colour from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean living in Britain, America, Canada, and Australia. It addresses controversial issues such as...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Feminist Studies

   A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing

   By Nina Lykke

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law

   Edited by Janice Richardson, Erika Rackley

   Series: Feminist Perspectives

   Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law offers a distinctly feminist approach to key topics in tort law. Ten original essays written by feminist legal scholars from the UK, US, Canada and Australia encompass a range of ways of thinking about women, tort law and feminism. The collection provides a fresh...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts

   Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions

   By Caroline Braunmühl

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   The occurrence in some criminal cases of "cultural defenses" on behalf of "minority" defendants has stirred much debate. This book is the first to illuminate how "cultural evidence" — i.e., "evidence" regarding ethnicity — is actually negotiated by attorneys, expert/lay witnesses, and defendants in...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice

   The Rhetorics of Comparison

   By Carolyn Pedwell

   Series: Transformations

   Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. ‘African’ female genital cutting and ‘Western’ cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings

   Disturbing Differences

   Edited by Marianne Liljeström, Susanna Paasonen

   Series: Transformations

   Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade. References to affect, emotions and intensities abound, their implications in terms of research practices have often remained less manifest. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
10. Gender, Agency and War

    The maternalized body in US foreign policy

    By Tina Managhan

    Series: War, Politics and Experience

    This book traces practices of militarization and resistance that have emerged under the sign of motherhood in US Foreign Policy. Gender, Agency and War examines this discourse against the background of three key moments of American foreign policy formation: the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s,...

    Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge