Women's Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Women's Studies: The Basics

   By Bonnie G. Smith

   Series: The Basics

   Women’s Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction into the ever expanding and increasingly relevant field of studies focused on women. Tracing the history of the discipline from its origins, this text sets out the main agendas of women’s studies and feminism, exploring the global...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Girls with Guns

   Firearms, Feminism, and Militarism

   By France Winddance Twine

   Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

   About the Series The goal of this new, unique Series is to offer readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today’s social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60 page or shorter formats, and available for view on http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html...

   Published January 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism

   The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com

   By Betty Kaklamanidou

   Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

   The romantic comedy has long been regarded as an inferior film genre by critics and scholars alike, accused of maintaining a strict narrative formula which is considered superficial and highly predictable. However, the genre has resisted the negative scholarly and critical comments and for the last...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
4. Female Entrepreneurship

   By Maura McAdam

   Series: Routledge-ISBE Masters in Entrepreneurship

   Female entrepreneurship, and, in particular, the contribution of their ventures to aggregate economic activity has gained increasing attention over recent years in terms of theory, practice and policy. This concise book explores how women fit into the contemporary entrepreneurial discourse by...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
5. Social Development and Social Work

   Learning from Africa

   Edited by Alice Butterfield, Tasse Abye

   Africa has a long experience with reducing poverty and vulnerability. In the contemporary period, social development and social work are at the forefront of dealing with abject poverty and some of the world’s most difficult problems. This book brings research in Africa to the forefront so that...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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
7. Women and Turkish Cinema

   Gender Politics, Cultural Identity and Representation

   By Eylem Atakav

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle East Film and Media

   Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish cinema to come to terms with the military’s intervention in politics and subsequent national trauma. It has resulted in an outpouring of cinematic texts. This book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of gender politics,...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
8. Women, Punishment and Social Justice

   Human Rights and Penal Practices

   Edited by Margaret Malloch, Gill McIvor

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

   The prison has often been the focus for concerns about human rights violations, and campaigns aimed at achieving social justice, for those with an interest in the criminalisation of women. To reduce the number of women imprisoned, a range of policy initiatives have been developed to increase the...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
9. Powerful Occupational Therapists

   A Community of Professionals, 1950-1980

   By Christine Peters

   Powerful Occupational Therapists examines the life and times of a small group of occupational therapy leaders and scholars in a post-1950s America, to market their profession as one of increasing importance. Participating in the 1950s rehabilitation, the 1960s equal rights, and the 1970s women’s...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
10. Routledge International Handbook of Crime and Gender Studies

    Edited by Claire Renzetti, Susan Miller, Angela Gover

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    Criminological research has historically been based on the study of men, boys and crime. As a result, the criminal justice system’s development of policies, programs, and treatment regimes was based on the male offender. It was not until the 1970s that some criminologists began to draw attention to...

    Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge