Gender Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Risk

   Second Edition

   By Deborah Lupton

   Series: Key Ideas

   Risk (second edition) is a fully revised and expanded update of a highly-cited, influential and well-known book. It reviews the three major approaches to risk in social and cultural theory, devoting a chapter to each one. These approaches were first identified and described by Deborah Lupton in the...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
3. The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain

   By Ellen Jordan

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   In the first half of the nineteenth century the main employments open to young women in Britain were in teaching, dressmaking, textile manufacture and domestic service. After 1850, however, young women began to enter previously all-male areas like medicine, pharmacy, librarianship, the civil...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Women, Religion and Culture in Iran

   By Sarah Ansari, Vanessa Martin

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   Investigates how women, religion and culture have interacted in the context of 19th and 20th century Iran, covering topics as seemingly diverse as the social and cultural history of Persian cuisine, the work and attitudes of 19th century Christian missionaries, the impact of growing female literacy...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Coming of Age

   Women's Colleges in the Philippines During the Post-Marcos Era

   By Francesca Purcell

   In view of the increasing number of Third World countries considering the establishment of women's colleges to meet the demand for the higher education of women, presenting a case study of two key women's colleges in the Philippines. Within the context of global, national and local changes since...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960

   By Gloria Chuku

   Series: African Studies

   This study analyzes the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society, with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro....

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Gender Development

   By Judith E. Owen Blakemore, Sheri A. Berenbaum, Lynn S. Liben

   This new text offers a unique developmental focus on gender. Gender development is examined from infancy through adolescence, integrating biological, socialization, and cognitive perspectives. The book’s current empirical focus is complemented by a lively and readable style that includes anecdotes...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
8. Women and Comedy in Solo Performance

   Phyllis Diller, Lily Tomlin and Roseanne

   By Suzanne Lavin

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   This work examines the dramatic changes in America women's comedy performance in the years 1955-1995.The study focuses on the standup of Phyllis Diller and Roseanne andon the character comedy of Lily Tomlin. As the historical arc of women's comedy unfolds, it outlines a change from the traditional...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Feminist International Relations

   'Exquisite Corpse'

   By Marysia Zalewski

   Series: Interventions

   This book offers a contemporary intervention in the field of feminism/international relations. Partly inspired by Surrealism, the book is written in a series of vignettes and draws on a variety of approaches inviting readers in to inhabit the text. It is a politically engaged book, though one which...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Body and Everyday Life

    By Helen Thomas

    Series: The New Sociology

    In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting,...

    Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge