Forthcoming Social Sciences Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Street Sex Workers' Discourse

   Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice

   By Jill McCracken

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   Incorporating the voices and insights of street sex workers through personal interviews, this monograph argues that the material conditions of many street workers — the physical environments they live in and their effects on the workers’ bodies, identities, and spirits — are represented, reproduced...

   To Be Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Play

   Policy, Intervention and Participation

   Edited by Andrew Parker, Don Vinson

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Sport, physical activity and play are key constituents of social life, impacting such diverse fields as healthcare, education and criminal justice. Over the past decade, governments around the world have begun to place physical activity at the heart of social policy, providing increased...

   To Be Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Politics of Maternity

   By Rosemary Mander, Jo Murphy-Lawless

   The evidence surrounding the skills and approaches to support good birth has grown exponentially over the last two decades, but so too have the obstacles facing women and midwives who strive to achieve good birth. This new book critically explores the complex issues surrounding contemporary...

   To Be Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Feminist Challenges

   Social and Political Theory

   Edited by Carole Pateman, Elizabeth Grosz

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   In Feminist Challenges, first published in 1987, new and established scholars demonstrate the application of feminism in a range of academic disciplines including history, philosophy, politics, and sociology. As Carole Pateman notes in her introduction, ‘all the contributors raise some...

   To Be Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals)

   Women in the Victorian Age

   Edited by Martha Vicinus

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1972, this book contains a collection of ten essays that document the feminine stereotypes that women fought against, and only partially erased, a hundred years ago. In an introductory essay, Martha Vicinus describes the perfect Victorian lady, showing that the ideal was a...

   To Be Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. A Widening Sphere (Routledge Revivals)

   Changing Roles of Victorian Women

   Edited by Martha Vicinus

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1977, this book is a companion volume to Suffer and Be Still. It looks at the widening sphere of women’s activities in the Victorian age and testifies to the dual nature of the legal and social constraints of the period: on the one hand, the ideal of the perfect lady and the...

   To Be Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
7. Globalization and Development

   Rethinking Interventions and Governance

   Edited by Arne Bigsten

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   The key challenge for achieving sustained development in developing countries relates to quality of domestic governance, which in turn is strongly affected by external interventions. Domestic governance includes politics, policy formulation, institution building and policy implementation. It is...

   To Be Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
8. Deleuze & Guattari

   Emergent Law

   By Jamie Murray

   Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

   Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law is an exposition and development of Deleuze & Guattari's legal theory. Although there has been considerable interest in Deleuze & Guattari in critical legal studies, as well as considerable interest in legality in Deleuze & Guattari studies, this is...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. Texts and Materials on International Human Rights

   3rd Edition

   By Rhona K.M. Smith

   Text and Materials on International Human Rights offers a carefully tailored overview of the subject, divided into four sections that cover: sources and theories; institutions and structures; substantive rights; and a new concluding section on the challenges for human rights law. The third edition...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
10. Methodologies on the Move

    The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research

    Edited by Anna Amelina, Thomas Faist, Devrimsel D. Nergiz

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    This volume establishes a new agenda for approaches to migration research and the corresponding methodologies. A wide range of international contributors focus on the question of how to overcome the so-called 'methodological nationalism' within empirical studies on migration. They address two main...

    To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge