Gender Studies 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. Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China

   Becoming a 'Modern' Man

   By Xiaodong Lin

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Human Trafficking

   Interdisciplinary Perspectives

   By Mary C. Burke

   Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

   The practice of one human being exploiting another in slavery-like conditions is not new. Today, it is called human trafficking. Social, political, and economic forces over the past 60 years have changed how and why this human rights abuse occurs. In order to solve this or any social problem, it is...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Feminist Theory Across Disciplines

   Feminist Community and American Women's Poetry

   By Shira Wolosky

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women’s writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American women’s poetry from the seventeenth to late-twentieth century. Engaging the fields of literary...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
6. Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church

   By Amanda Udis-Kessler

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   The United Methodist Church has been in conflict over lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender inclusion issues since 1972. That year, in response to the gay liberation and gay rights movements, wording was added to the UMC Book of Discipline (the compilation of denominational policies and doctrines)...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. The Body and Everyday Life

   By Helen Thomas

   Series: The New Sociology

   In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting,...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
9. Youth Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging

   Edited by Sharlene Swartz, Madeleine Arnot

   Around the world today, young people are being called upon to develop civic competence and carry the burden of forging a political future in the midst of impoverishment, exclusion and inequality. In societies that have experienced civil war, military occupation, mass immigration of displaced people...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
10. New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights

    Edited by Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcon, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott

    On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights. Interdisciplinary feminist conversations among scholar-activists can both challenge and enrich new directions in feminism and...

    Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge