Forthcoming Gender Studies Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood

   The contradictory nature of sexuality and censorship in children’s contemporary lives

   By Kerry Robinson

   This book provides a critical examination of the discourses that underpin the regulation of children’s access to certain knowledge – understood as ‘difficult knowledge’ – and highlights the way this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood....

   To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950

   Edited by Raquel A.G. Reyes, William G. Clarence-Smith

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Placing sex acts in Asia at the forefront of historical investigation, this book explores the history of sodomy and other so-called transgressive sexual practices, such as anal sex, same-sex erotic encounters, pederasty, bestiality, incest, transgenderism, and oral sex, in East, Southeast and South...

   To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Refugee Women

   Beyond Gender versus Culture

   By Leah Bassel

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called ‘sharia-tribunals’, Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question – does accommodating Islam violate women’s rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate. It...

   To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Violence and the Pornographic Imaginary

   The Politics of Sex, Gender, and Aggression in Hardcore Pornography

   By Natalie Purcell

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   No cultural product reveals our collective fascination with sexual violence more candidly than popular heterosexual pornographies. They showcase scenes of intense sexual aggression and cruelty that are gendered in repetitive, patterned configurations—configurations that are designed to arouse....

   To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Routledge
5. Women Writing and Writing about Women

   Edited by Mary Jacobus

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   This innovative collection of contemporary essays in feminist literary criticism provides a spectrum of approaches and positions, united by their common focus on writing by and about women. Spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, the contributors emphasise some of the problems of...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. Rewriting the Victorians

   Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender

   Edited by Linda M. Shires

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyzes power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume is the first to reshape Victorian studies from the perspective of the postmodern return to history, and is variously influenced by Marxism, sociology,...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Victorian Women's Fiction

   Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual

   By Shirley Foster

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Rereading Modernism

   New Directions in Feminist Criticism

   Edited by Lisa Rado

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   Until about 1986, feminists generally considered modernism a reactionary, misogynist, and hegemonic mire not worth investigating. Since then enough studies of modernism have appeared that 17 feminist critics can now review and debate their treatment of the period. They evaluate the progress and...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Edging Women Out

   Victorian Novelists, Publishers and Social Change

   By Gaye Tuchman

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, "men of letters" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. Transnational Marriage

    New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond

    Edited by Katharine Charsley

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    Marriages spanning borders are not a new phenomenon, but occur with increasing frequency and contribute substantially to international mobility and transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ‘secondary’ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been...

    To Be Published June 5th 2012 by Routledge