Gender Inequality Books

New and Published Books

1. Athletes, Sexual Assault, and "Trials by Media"

   Narrative Immunity

   By Deb Waterhouse-Watson

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Since footballer sexual assault became top news in 2004, six years after the first case was reported, much has been written in the news media about individual cases, footballers and women who have sex with them. Deb Waterhouse-Watson reveals how media representations of recent sexual assault cases...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Sociology of Youth Culture and Youth Subcultures (Routledge Revivals)

   Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll?

   By Michael Brake

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1980, this book argues that subcultures are formed in defence of collectively experienced problems that arise from defects and contradictions in social structures. It looks at the development of post-war youth culture in a sociological context and considers the class base of...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Current Perspectives in Feminist Media Studies

   Edited by Lisa McLaughlin, Cynthia Carter

   Current Perspectives in Feminist Media Studies features contributions written by a diverse group of stellar feminist scholars from around the world. Each contributor has authored a brief, thought-provoking commentary on the current status and future directions of feminist media studies. Although...

   Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. Class, Ethnicity, Gender and Latino Entrepreneurship

   By María Eugenia Verdaguer

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Drawing on surveys and in-depth interviews, this book examines the social and economic relations of first-generation Latino entrepreneurs. Verdaguer explores social patterns between and within groups, situating immigrant entrepreneurship within concrete geographical, demographic and historical...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. Gender Equity in Health

   The Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action

   Edited by Gita Sen, Piroska Östlin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

   This volume brings together experts from a variety of disciplines, such as medicine, biology, sociology, epidemiology, anthropology, economics and political science, who focus on three areas: health disparities and inequity due to gender, the specific problems women face in meeting the highest...

   Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
6. Work and Family Policy

   International Comparative Perspectives

   Edited by Stephen Sweet

   Numerous challenges exist in respect to integrating work and family institutions and there is remarkable cross-national variation in the ways that societies respond to these concerns with policy. This volume examines these concerns by focusing on cross-national variation in structural/cultural...

   Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Mobility, Space and Culture

   By Peter Merriman

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Over the past ten to fifteen years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman provides an important and timely contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, encouraging academics to...

   Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease

   By Mary Ann Cutter

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. Women, Identity and India's Call Centre Industry

   By J.K. Tina Basi

   Series: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series

   This book examines the concept of globalised identities and the way in which agency is exercised over identity construction by women working in India’s transnational call centre industry. Drawing on qualitative empirical data and extensive original fieldwork, the book provides a nuanced analysis...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
10. Sport, Masculinities and the Body

    By Ian Wellard

    Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

    This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Sports continue to retain expectations for presentations of specific forms of masculinity. The body is central to these presentations. These everyday bodily performances are rehearsed and performed either successfully or...

    Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge