Gender Books

New and Published Books

1. Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11

   By Marita Gronnvoll

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24). In exposing news media...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures

   Passionate Play

   By Jenny Sundén, Malin Sveningsson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   How do gender and sexuality come to matter in online game cultures? Why is it important to explore "straight" versus "queer" contexts of play? And what does it mean to play together with others over time, as co-players and researchers? Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures is a book about...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Gender and Media Reader

   Edited by Mary Celeste Kearney

   The Gender and Media Reader is an essential text for those interested in gender and media studies, its main topics, debates, and theoretical approaches. The primary objective of this collection is to expand readers’ knowledge of how gender operates within media culture through engagement with...

   Published August 2nd 2011 by Routledge
4. Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture

   Edited by Stacy Gillis, Joanne Hollows

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   The relationship between feminism and domesticity has recently come in for renewed interest in popular culture. This collection makes an intervention into the debates surrounding feminism’s contentious relationship with domesticity and domestic femininities in popular culture. It offers an...

   Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge
5. Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representation

   Tragedy, Normativity, and Futurity

   By Dustin Bradley Goltz

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Through the analysis of over seventy films and thirty television series, ranging from Shortbus, Sweet Home Alabama, and Poseidon to Noah’s Arc, Brothers & Sisters, and Dawson’s Creek, Goltz examines reoccurring narrative structures in popular media that perpetuate the extreme value placed upon...

   Published June 30th 2011 by Routledge
6. Homosexuality and Manliness in Postwar Japan

   By Jonathan D. Mackintosh

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   Japan’s first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku (‘The Rose Tribes’), was launched in 1971. Publicly declaring the beauty and normality of homosexual desire, Barazoku electrified the male homosexual world whilst scandalising...

   Published April 19th 2011 by Routledge
7. Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy

   By Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

   Series: Routledge Studies in North American Politics

   Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy offers a critical analysis of the policy-making process. Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and family policies produce and reproduce discursive practices that maintain gender and racial...

   Published November 18th 2010 by Routledge
8. Neo-Feminist Cinema

   Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture

   By Hilary Radner

   What lies behind current feminist discontent with contemporary cinema? Through a combination of cultural and industry analysis, Hilary Radner’s Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture shows how the needs of conglomerate Hollywood have encouraged an emphasis on...

   Published October 24th 2010 by Routledge
9. Everyday Pornography

   Edited by Karen Boyle

   Public and academic debate about ‘porn culture’ is proliferating. Ironically, what is often lost in these debates is a sense of what is specific about pornography. By focusing on pornography’s mainstream – contemporary commercial products for a heterosexual male audience – Everyday Pornography...

   Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge
10. Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture

    Edited by Rosemarie Buikema, Iris van der Tuin

    Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture is an introductory text for students specialising in gender studies. The truly interdisciplinary and intergenerational approach bridges the gap between humanities and the social sciences, and it showcases the academic and social context in which gender studies...

    Published May 17th 2009 by Routledge