Gender Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights

   Edited by Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker

   The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of research on sexuality as the social sciences have worked to find new ways of understanding a rapidly changing world. Growing concern for issues such as population, women's and men's reproductive health, and the HIV and AIDS pandemic, has since...

   Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice

   The Rhetorics of Comparison

   By Carolyn Pedwell

   Series: Transformations

   Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. ‘African’ female genital cutting and ‘Western’ cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings

   Disturbing Differences

   Edited by Marianne Liljeström, Susanna Paasonen

   Series: Transformations

   Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade. References to affect, emotions and intensities abound, their implications in terms of research practices have often remained less manifest. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. The Education of Eros

   A History of Education and the Problem of Adolescent Sexuality

   By Dennis L. Carlson

   Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

   The Education of Eros is the first and only comprehensive history of sexuality education and the “problem” of adolescent sexuality from the mid-20th century to the beginning of the 21st. It explores how professional health educators, policy makers, and social and religious conservatives...

   Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Father-Daughter Relationships

   Contemporary Research and Issues

   By Linda Nielsen

   Series: Textbooks in Family Studies

   The first research-based text that focuses on the impact of the father-daughter relationship, this provocative book examines the factors that can strengthen or weaken these relationships and the impact that these relationships have on society. The research is brought to life with compelling...

   Published January 24th 2012 by Routledge Academic
9. 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
10. The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship

    Enterprise, Home and Household in London, c. 1800-1870

    By Alison Kay

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

    The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship explores the relationship between home, household headship and enterprise in Victorian London. It examines the notions of duty, honor and suitability in how women’s ventures are represented by themselves and others and engages in a comparison of the...

    Published January 11th 2012 by Routledge