Gender Studies - Soc Sci 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. Men Speak Out

   Views on Gender, Sex, and Power, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Shira Tarrant

   Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power, Second Edition highlights new essays on pornography, pop culture, queer identity, Muslim masculinity, and the war on women. With personal candor and political insight, this collection of diverse authors explores sex work, digital activism,...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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
5. India Migration Report 2013

   Social Costs of Migration

   Edited by S. Irudaya Rajan

   This volume is an empirical assessment of an often-neglected space in migration research — social, psychological and human costs for both migrants and the families they leave behind — based on qualitative and quantitative research findings. Globally, the focus of migration research has consisted of...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge India
6. The Transgender Studies Reader 1&2 BUNDLE

   Edited by Susan Stryker, Aren Z. Aizura

   Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a dynamic field of interdisciplinary scholarship. First collected in Routledge's own The Transgender Studies Reader in 2006, the field has moved on, rapidly expanding in many directions. The Transgender Studies Reader 2 gathers these...

   Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
7. Rethinking Agency

   Developmentalism, Gender and Rights

   By Sumi Madhok

   This book proposes a new theoretical framework for agency thinking by examining the ethical, discursive and practical engagements of a group of women development workers in north-west India with developmentalism and individual rights. Rethinking Agency asks an underexplored question, tracks the...

   Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
8. Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India

   Edited by Padma Bhate-Deosthali, Sangeeta Rege, Padma Prakash

   Mainstream counselling in domestic violence often fails to address critical issues, such as gender socialisation processes and the abuse of power that allows violence against women, and focuses primarily on the intra-psychic nature of individual women. In contrast, feminist counselling is an...

   Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
9. Women in Movement (Routledge Revivals)

   Feminism and Social Action

   By Sheila Rowbotham

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1992, this book is an historical introduction to a wide range of women’s movements from the late eighteenth-century to the date of its publication. It describes economic, social and political ideas which have inspired women to organize, not only in Europe and North America, but...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. No Place Like Home

    Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment

    By David Staples

    Series: New Approaches in Sociology

    No Place Like Home examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. Far from an isolated or contingent situation, home-based work constitutes today an enormous arena of 'invisible'...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge