Gender Inequality Books

New and Published Books

1. The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease

   By Mary Ann Cutter

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Women, Identity and India's Call Centre Industry

   By J.K. Tina Basi

   Series: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series

   This book examines the concept of globalised identities and the way in which agency is exercised over identity construction by women working in India’s transnational call centre industry. Drawing on qualitative empirical data and extensive original fieldwork, the book provides a nuanced analysis...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. Sport, Masculinities and the Body

   By Ian Wellard

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Sports continue to retain expectations for presentations of specific forms of masculinity. The body is central to these presentations. These everyday bodily performances are rehearsed and performed either successfully or...

   Published February 20th 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. The International Social Survey Programme 1984-2009

   Charting the Globe

   Edited by Max Haller, Roger Jowell, Tom W Smith

   Series: Social Research Today

   The social sciences rely more on the comparative method than on experimental data mainly because the latter is difficult to acquire amongst human populations. The International Social Survey Programme has played a pioneering role in creating and sustaining methodologically-sophisticated mass...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Islam, Family Life, and Gender Inequality in Urban China

   By Xiaowei Zang

   Series: Routledge Studies on Ethnicity in Asia

   This book studies the relationship between Islam, family processes, and gender inequality among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi, China. Empirically, it shows in quantitative terms the extent of gender inequalities among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi and tests whether the gender inequalities are a difference...

   Published September 4th 2011 by Routledge
8. Korean Women Managers and Corporate Culture

   Challenging Tradition, Choosing Empowerment, Creating Change

   By Jean R. Renshaw

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   The typical view of Korean women is not as managers. The stereotype is of Korean women serving and pleasing men, or more recently as aggressive shopkeepers and bar-owners. Very little has been written to challenge this misconception. This fascinating book reveals there have always been managers...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
9. Queer Political Performance and Protest

   By Benjamin Shepard

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention protests in August 2004, and the massive...

   Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Rights, Gender and Family Law

    Edited by Julie Wallbank, Shazia Choudhry, Jonathan Herring

    There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Rights, Gender and Family Law addresses the implications of...

    Published August 26th 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish