Gender Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement

   By Marc Stein

   Series: American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century

   Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides a new narrative history of U.S. gay and lesbian activism, drawing on primary research in the field and the best scholarship on the history of the gay and lesbian movement. Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and political change in the...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Moral Sin

   Abortion and Divorce in Spain, Chile and Argentina

   By Merike Blofield

   Series: Latin American Studies

   This book analyzes the problems that arise when women's rights conflict with the views of conservative organized religion. Specifically, it addresses the legalization – or lack thereof – of divorce and abortion in three recently democratized Catholic countries: Spain, Chile, and...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
3. Gender, Sexualities and Law

   Edited by Jackie Jones, Anna Grear, Rachel Anne Fenton, Kim Stevenson

   Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of contemporary issues – both topical and controversial – raised by the gendered character of law, legal discourse and institutions. The gendering of law,...

   Published April 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. Surviving Dictatorship

   A Work of Visual Sociology

   By Jacqueline Adams

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on...

   Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. Gender, Race and Religion

   Intersections and Challenges

   Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Gender, Race and Religion brings together a selection of original papers published in Ethnic and Racial Studies that address the intersections between gender relations, race and religion in our contemporary environment. Chapters address both theoretical and empirical aspects of this phenomenon, and...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
8. Bisexuality and Queer Theory

   Intersections, Connections and Challenges

   Edited by Jonathan Alexander, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

   According to David Halperin, sexuality in our time is typified by a "crisis in contemporary sexual definition". What is sexuality? What does it mean to have a sexual identity or orientation? What is the relationship between sexuality as a knowledge construct, on one hand, and the often messy flows...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
9. 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
10. 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