The Body Books

New and Published Books

1. Strong and Hard Women

   An ethnography of female bodybuilding

   By Tanya Bunsell

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   Females with large muscles evoke strong reactions from men and women, often involving disgust, discomfort, anger and threat. The controversial nature of female bodybuilding has caused a significant rupture on feminist ground. Whilst proponents claim that female bodybuilding is a way of empowering...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Changing Gay Male Identities

   By Andrew Cooper

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   As the world changes, so sexual identities are changing. In a context of globalisation, mass communication and technological advances, individuals find themselves able to make lifestyle choices in new and different ways. In this increasingly confusing world, sociologists have argued that identities...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. The Criminology of Pleasure

   By Mike McGuire, Simon Hallsworth

   The Criminology of Pleasure offers a new way of thinking about crime and crime control, as it maintains that the very rationale of the criminal justice system lies in the channelling of desire and regulating of pleasure. Criminology has only confronted the importance of the desire/pleasure...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. Creating Sanctuary

   Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies, Revised Edition

   By Sandra L Bloom

   Creating Sanctuary is a description of a hospital-based program to treat adults who had been abused as children and the revolutionary knowledge about trauma and adversity that the program was based upon. This book focuses on the biological, psychological, and social aspects of trauma. Fifteen years...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding

   Edited by Adam Locks, Niall Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
6. Lesbian Images in International Popular Culture

   Edited by Sara E. Cooper

   Lesbian images are everywhere these days–cable television, film, popular magazines, advertising, Internet and the news–creating desire in men and women alike, selling commercial products and services, and stirring up controversy on many levels. But do these images truly represent the diverse...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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 February 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Transgender Studies Reader 2

   Edited by Susan Stryker, Aren Z. Aizura

   Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a vibrant field of interdisciplinary scholarship. In 2006, Routledge’s The Transgender Studies Reader brought together the first definitive collection of the field. Since its publication, the field has seen an explosion of new work that...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. Gender and Diversity in the Middle East and North Africa

   Edited by Zahia Smail Salhi

   The images of women in chadors or burqas as contrasted with images of belly dancers which circulate today as representations of Muslim/Middle Eastern women do not fluctuate from the images propagated by Orientalist paintings and colonial photographs which also offer contrasting representations of...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
10. Transforming Images

    Screens, affect, futures

    By Rebecca Coleman

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time. The book...

    Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge