Sexuality - Gender Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Bullying

   Experiences and discourses of sexuality and gender

   Edited by Ian Rivers, Neil Duncan

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   Bullying: Experiences and Discourses of Sexuality and Gender provides a valuable insight into the experiences of young people and how bullying can impact upon them in the school environment. The book offers an introduction to the key issues associated with bullying on the grounds of sex and sexual...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. The Challenges of Being a Rural Gay Man

   Coping with Stigma

   By Deborah Bray Preston, Anthony R. D'Augelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting. In this book, Preston and D’Augelli present the results of in-depth interviews and surveys with rural gay men,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Concrete and Dust: Mapping the Sexual Terrains of Los Angeles

   By Jeanine Marie Minge, Amber Lynn Zimmerman

   Series: Innovative Ethnographies

   Concrete and Dust focuses on the performative nature of sexualized identity in Hollywood, the people that live in its underbelly and surrounding valleys, the sexual geographies of the place, and the ways in which sexual agency is mapped on the body and in consciousness. The cultural turn in...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
5. Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood

   The contradictory nature of sexuality and censorship in children’s contemporary lives

   By Kerry H. Robinson

   Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood provides a critical examination of the way we regulate children’s access to certain knowledge and explores how this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood, to children’s vulnerability and to the constitution of the ‘good’...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Shaping Sexual Knowledge

   A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe

   Edited by Lutz Sauerteig, Roger Davidson

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   The history of sex education enables us to gain valuable insights into the cultural constructions of what different societies have defined as 'normal' sexuality and sexual health. Yet, the history of sex education has only recently attracted the full attention of historians of modern sexuality....

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Homosexuality and the European Court of Human Rights

   By Paul Johnson

   Homosexuality and the European Court of Human Rights is the first book-length study of the Court’s jurisprudence in respect of sexual orientation. It offers a socio-legal analysis of the substantial number of decisions and judgments of the Strasbourg organs on the wide range of complaints brought...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
9. Anarchism & Sexuality

   Ethics, Relationships and Power

   Edited by Jamie Heckert, Richard Cleminson

   Series: Social Justice

   Anarchism & Sexuality aims to bring the rich and diverse traditions of anarchist thought and practice into contact with contemporary questions about the politics and lived experience of sexuality. Both in style and in content, it is conceived as a book that aims to question, subvert and...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. Transgender Identities

    Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity

    Edited by Sally Hines, Tam Sanger

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

    In recent years transgender has emerged as a subject of increasing social and cultural interest. This volume offers vivid accounts of the diversity of living transgender in today's world. The first section, "Emerging Identities," maps the ways in which social, cultural, legal and medical...

    Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge