Gender Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Chinese Male Homosexualities

   Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy

   By Travis S. K. Kong

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men. It provides a sociological account of masculinity, desire, sexuality, identity and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies, and within the constellation of global culture. Kong...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Subalternity and Difference

   Investigations from the North and the South

   Edited by Gyanendra Pandey

   Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

   Focusing on the idea of difference as a marker of subalternity, this book looks at the ways in which ordinary citizens have sought to present and identify themselves in ways that defy the conventional categorisations of governments and historical experience. Inspired particularly by questions...

   Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Sexuality, Religion and the Sacred

   Bisexual, Pansexual and Polysexual Perspectives

   Edited by Loraine Hutchins, H. Sharif Williams

   Sexuality, Religion and the Sacred is a thoughtful collection of bisexual, polysexual and pansexual scholarship on religion and spirituality. It examines how religious and spiritual traditions address sexuality, whilst also exploring the ways in which bisexually-, polysexually-, and...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
6. Feminism Counts

   Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender

   Edited by Christina Hughes, Rachel Cohen

   This is an important and timely text that provides a unique overview of contemporary quantitative approaches to gender research. The contributors are internationally recognised researchers from the UK, USA and Sweden who occupy a range of disciplinary locations, including historical demography,...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. Sex Trafficking in South Asia

   Telling Maya's Story

   By Mary Crawford

   Series: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series

   This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment, this book offers the necessary...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
8. Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women

   Edited by Pnina Werbner, Mark Johnson

   The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women migrants from South and South East Asia,...

   Published July 7th 2011 by Routledge
9. Tiger Girls

   Women and Enterprise in the People's Republic of China

   By Minglu Chen

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   The existing scholarship on women in China suggests that gender inequality still exists against the background of the country’s reform and opening in recent years. However, the situation of women in enterprise ownership and leadership seems to indicate that despite such notions of disadvantage...

   Published June 1st 2011 by Routledge
10. Marriage in Contemporary Japan

    By Yoko Tokuhiro

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

    The phenomenon of bankonka – ‘postponement of marriage’ – is increasingly reported in contemporary Japanese media, clearly illustrating the changing patterns of modern lifestyles and attitudes towards marriage, personal obligation and ambition. This is the first book in recent years to explore the...

    Published May 16th 2011 by Routledge