Sexuality - Gender Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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