Gender Studies Books

New and Published Books

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 23rd 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. Gender and Crime

   Edited by Sandra Walklate

   Series: Critical Concepts in Criminology

   In the late 1950s, Barbara Wootton memorably remarked that if men behaved like women the criminal courts would be idle and the prisons empty. Wootton was among the first to ask fundamental and challenging questions of criminology; about its structure as a discipline and its explanatory potential...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Gender and Community Under British Colonialism

   Emotion, Struggle and Politics in a Chinese Village

   By Siu Keung Cheung

   Series: East Asian Studies

   Gender and Community Under British Colonialism is a study of continuity and change in village communities in the New Territories of Hong Kong, China....

   Published May 3rd 2012 by Routledge
5. Excavating Women

   A History of Women in European Archaeology

   Edited by Magarita Díaz-Andreu, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen

   Archaeologists are increasingly aware of issues of gender when studying past societies; women are becoming better represented within the discipline and are attaining top academic posts. However, until now there has been no study undertaken of the history of women in European archaeology and their...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis

   By Rosemary M Balsam

   Why has the female body been marginalised in psychoanalysis, with a focus on female problems and pains only? How can we begin to think about body pleasure, power, competition and aggression as normal in females? In Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis, Rosemary Balsam argues that re-tracing...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. Feminist Studies

   A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing

   By Nina Lykke

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
8. Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11

   By Marita Gronnvoll

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24). In exposing news media...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan

   Violence and Transformation in the Karachi Conflict

   By Nichola Khan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Synthesizing political, anthropological and psychological perspectives, this book addresses the everyday causes and appeal of long-term involvement in extreme political violence in urban Pakistan. Taking Pakistan’s ethno nationalist Mohajir party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) as a case study,...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. Handbook of LGBT-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy

    Edited by Jerry J. Bigner, Joseph L. Wetchler

    The editors and contributors of this comprehensive text provide a unique and important contribution to LGBT clinical literature. Spanning 30 chapters, they discuss the diverse and complex issues involved in LGBT couple and family therapy. In almost 15 years, this book provides the first in-depth...

    Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge