Gender Books

New and Published Books

1. Women's Studies: The Basics

   By Bonnie G. Smith

   Series: The Basics

   Women’s Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction into the ever expanding and increasingly relevant field of studies focused on women. Tracing the history of the discipline from its origins, this text sets out the main agendas of women’s studies and feminism, exploring the global...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony

   The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan

   By Kaeko Chiba

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chado) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, the book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chado system at grass roots level. Making critical use of Bourdieu’s idea...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. Tiger Girls

   Women and Enterprise in the People's Republic of China

   By Minglu Chen

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   The existing scholarship on women in China suggests that gender inequality still exists against the background of the country’s reform and opening in recent years. However, the situation of women in enterprise ownership and leadership seems to indicate that despite such notions of disadvantage...

   Published January 16th 2013 by Routledge
4. Transnational Feminism and Global Advocacy in South Asia

   Edited by Gita Rajan, Jigna Desai

   Transnational feminism has been critical to feminist theorizing in the global North over the last few decades. Perhaps due to its broad terminology, transnational feminism can become vague and dislocated, losing its ability to name specific critiques of and responses to empire, race, and...

   Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Fat

   By Deborah Lupton

   Series: Shortcuts

   In contemporary western societies the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are still socially marginalized and...

   Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Gender Trouble Makers

   Education and Empowerment in Nepal

   By Jennifer Rothchild

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   International development efforts aimed at improving girls’ lives and education have been well-intended, somewhat effective, but ultimately short-sighted and incomplete. This is because international development efforts often operate under a reductive understanding of the term 'gender' and how it...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Understanding Global Sexualities

   New Frontiers

   Edited by Peter Aggleton, Paul Boyce, Henrietta L Moore, Richard Parker

   Series: Sexuality, Culture and Health

   Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and methodologically. From a relatively limited, specialist field, the study of sexuality has expanded across a wide range of social sciences. Yet as the field has grown, it has become...

   Published June 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Transnational Marriage

   New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond

   Edited by Katharine Charsley

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   Marriages spanning borders are not a new phenomenon, but occur with increasing frequency and contribute substantially to international mobility and transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ‘secondary’ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been...

   Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times

   Researching Educational Inequalities

   Edited by Heidi Mirza, Cynthia Joseph

   This book is a compelling collection of essays on the intersection of race, gender and class in education written by leading black and postcolonial feminists of colour from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean living in Britain, America, Canada, and Australia. It addresses controversial issues such as...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Chinese Male Homosexualities

    Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy

    By Travis S. K. Kong

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men. It provides a sociological account of masculinity, desire, sexuality, identity and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies, and within the constellation of global culture. Kong...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge