Forthcoming Gender Books

Forthcoming Books

1. 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
2. Understanding Global Sexualities

   New Frontiers

   Edited by Peter Aggleton, Paul Boyce, Henrietta L Moore, Richard Parker

   Series: Sexuality, Culture and Health

   Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and methodologically. From a relatively limited, specialist field, the study of sexuality has expanded across a wide range of social sciences. Yet as the field has grown, it has become...

   To Be Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Transnational Feminism and Global Advocacy in South Asia

   Edited by Gita Rajan, Jigna Desai

   Transnational feminism has been critical to feminist theorizing in the global North over the last few decades. Perhaps due to its broad terminology, transnational feminism can become vague and dislocated, losing its ability to name specific critiques of and responses to empire, race, and...

   To Be Published August 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Sexuality, Women, and Tourism

   Cross-border desires through contemporary travel

   By Susan E. Frohlick

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a Central American country. As an in-depth ethnographic account, the book traces the experiences of heterosexual North...

   To Be Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Fat

   By Deborah Lupton

   Series: Shortcuts

   In contemporary western societies the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are still socially marginalized and...

   To Be Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
6. Footbinding and Chinese Women's Labor

   Hand and Foot

   By Hill Gates

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   When Chinese women bound their daughters’ feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child’s body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is not...

   To Be Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
7. Women's Studies: The Basics

   By Bonnie G. Smith

   Series: The Basics

   Women’s Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction into the ever expanding and increasingly relevant field of studies focused on women. Tracing the history of the discipline from its origins, this text sets out the main agendas of women’s studies and feminism, exploring the global...

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
8. Queer Women in Urban China

   An Ethnography

   By Elisabeth L. Engebretsen

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   Based in ethnographies of the everyday and intimate lives of a diverse population of same-sex desiring women (lala) in Beijing, this book explores how ideas and practices regarding gender, sexuality, family, and nation are constructed, and investigates new meanings of identity and modes...

   To Be Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
9. Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China

   Becoming a 'Modern' Man

   By Xiaodong Lin

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past three decades. Within this context, feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and empowerment in urban China, but in contrast, research on rural men’s experience of...

   To Be Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge