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1. Prostitution Scandals in China

   Policing, Media and Society

   By Elaine Jeffreys

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   Prostitution Scandals in China presents an examination of media coverage of prostitution-related scandals in contemporary China. It demonstrates that the subject of prostitution is not only widely debated, but also that these public discussions have ramifications for some of the key social, legal...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man

   Psychoanalysis and Masculinity

   By Donald Moss

   Images and ideas associated with masculinity are forever in flux. In this book, Donald Moss addresses the never-ending effort of men—regardless of sexual orientation—to shape themselves in relation to the unstable notion of masculinity. Part 1 looks at the lifelong labor faced by boys and men of...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Policing Sex

   Edited by Paul Johnson, Derek Dalton

   This collection focuses attention on an important but academically neglected area of contemporary operational policing: the regulation of consensual sexual practices. Despite the high-level public visibility of, and debate about, policing in relation to violent and abusive sexual crimes (from child...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Women in the Judiciary

   Edited by Ulrike Schultz, Gisela Shaw

   Does gender matter in judging? And if so, in what way? Why were there so few women judges only two or three decades ago, and why are there so many now in most countries of the Western world? How do women judges experience their work in a previously male-dominated environment? What are their...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Gender, Human Security and the United Nations

   Security Language as a Political Framework for Women

   By Natalie Florea Hudson

   Series: Routledge Critical Security Studies

   This book examines the relationship between women, gender and the international security agenda, exploring the meaning of security in terms of discourse and practice, as well as the larger goals and strategies of the global women's movement. Today, many complex global problems are being located...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
6. Gender and Policing

   By Louise Westmarland

   Gender and Policing is an innovative study of the real world of street policing and the gender issues which are a central part of this. Derived from extensive ethnographic research (involving police responses to gangland shootings, high speed car chases as well as more routine policing activities),...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
7. Women in Charge

   By Marisa Silvestri

   This book is concerned with the gendered world of police leadership at a time when calls are being made for a different kind of police leader to guide the organisation through the twenty-first century. Drawing on in-depth interviews carried out with senior policewomen across a range of police...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
8. Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements

   Edited by Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short, Matthew Waites

   Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements is the first collection to focus on the contribution sociological approaches can make to analysis of human rights. Taking forward the sociology of human rights which emerged from the 1990s, it presents innovative analyses of global human rights struggles...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
9. Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic'

   Governing Bodies

   Edited by Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood

   Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

   Biopolitics and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ is the first edited collection of critical perspectives on the 'obesity epidemic.' The volume provides a comprehensive discussion of current issues in the critical analysis of health, obesity and society, and the impact of obesity discourses on different...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Women and Their Money 1700-1950

    Essays on Women and Finance

    Edited by Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

    This book examines women's financial activity from the early days of the stock market in eighteenth century England and the South Sea Bubble to the mid-twentieth century. The essays demonstrate how many women managed their own finances despite legal and social restrictions and show that women were...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge