Women's Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Women in the Judiciary

   Edited by Ulrike Schultz, Gisela Shaw

   Does gender matter in judging? And if so, in what way? Why were there so few women judges only two or three decades ago, and why are there so many now in most countries of the Western world? How do women judges experience their work in a previously male-dominated environment? What are their...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Women, War, Violence and Learning

   Edited by Shahrzad Mojab

   This anthology provides fresh theorization of gendered dimensions of learning, war, and violence, with a view to offering new insights on the impact of violence on women’s learning and well being. The collection is an important contribution to emerging interdisciplinary approaches to the role and...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements

   Edited by Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short, Matthew Waites

   Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements is the first collection to focus on the contribution sociological approaches can make to analysis of human rights. Taking forward the sociology of human rights which emerged from the 1990s, it presents innovative analyses of global human rights struggles...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
4. Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965–1980

   By Kalenda C. Eaton

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Women and Their Money 1700-1950

   Essays on Women and Finance

   Edited by Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

   This book examines women's financial activity from the early days of the stock market in eighteenth century England and the South Sea Bubble to the mid-twentieth century. The essays demonstrate how many women managed their own finances despite legal and social restrictions and show that women were...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Gender and Transitional Justice

   The Women of East Timor

   By Susan Harris Rimmer

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   Gender and Transitional Justice provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, it offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration. Often...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care

   Worlds Apart

   Edited by Shahra Razavi, Silke Staab

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered construction of welfare provisioning and welfare regimes has produced a...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
8. Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times

   Researching Educational Inequalities

   Edited by Heidi Mirza, Cynthia Joseph

   This book is a compelling collection of essays on the intersection of race, gender and class in education written by leading black and postcolonial feminists of colour from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean living in Britain, America, Canada, and Australia. It addresses controversial issues such as...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Feminist Studies

   A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing

   By Nina Lykke

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
10. Women and Aging International

    Diversity, Challenges and Contributions

    Edited by Lee Ann Mjelde-Mossey, Iris Chi

    According to a recent population report by the United Nations, "in most countries, older women greatly outnumber older men. In many cases, the difference is so large that the concerns of the older population should in fact be viewed primarily as the concerns of older women." Internationally, the...

    Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge