Women Books

New and Published Books

1. Gender-based Violence and Public Health

   International perspectives on budgets and policies

   Edited by Keerty Nakray

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health approach for working with gender-based violence, paying specific attention to...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. 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
4. Man's Dominion

   The Rise of Religion and the Eclipse of Women's Rights

   By Sheila Jeffreys

   In this feminist critique of the politics of religion, Sheila Jeffreys argues that the renewed rise of religion is harmful to women’s human rights. The book seeks to rekindle the criticism of religion as the founding ideology of patriarchy. Focusing on the three monotheistic religions; Judaism,...

   Published October 9th 2011 by Routledge
5. Women and Heroin Addiction in China's Changing Society

   By Huan Gao

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   Accompanying China’s economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, illicit drug use emerged in the late 1980s, and gradually developed into a serious social problem. Heroin was the dominant illicit drug consumed in the new drug epidemic, and the number of female heroin users has increased rapidly...

   Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge
6. Social Justice in Group Work

   Practical Interventions for Change

   Edited by Anneliese Singh, Carmen Salazar

   This book spotlights the unique contribution of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work to the social justice literature, and of group work to a social justice agenda. Although the term social justice may be relatively new in the counseling and psychology literature, the underlying values -...

   Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
7. Women and Therapy in the Last Third of Life

   The Long View

   Edited by Valory Mitchell

   What is distinct about the last third of life, about women, that makes psychotherapy different? In this diverse collection, the psychological meanings and challenges of the last third of life are explored, as the capacity of the psyche expands, sense of time changes, and some questions take on new...

   Published December 9th 2009 by Routledge
8. Women, Clubs and Associations in Britain

   By David Doughan, Peter Gordon

   Women have been consistently excluded from all manner of clubs and associations over the years, whether as the direct result of an anti-woman policy or indirectly through prohibitive entry requirements, social constraints, or conflict of interests and tastes. Retaliation from women has...

   Published September 6th 2009 by Routledge
9. Safe Motherhood in a Globalized World

   Edited by Barbara Wejnert, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, Nirupama Prakash

   This book provides cutting edge information on safe motherhood in a global context. The chapters focus on research, program development and implementation, and policy dealing with various aspects of pregnancy, labor and delivery. Safe motherhood is a critical issue since healthy, safe motherhood is...

   Published March 25th 2009 by Routledge
10. Counseling Pregnancy, Politics, and Biomedicine

    Empowering Discernment

    By Patricia Elyse Terrell

    Examine the impact and importance reproduction and genetics have on religious valuesCounseling Pregnancy, Politics, and Biomedicine: Empowering Discernment explains the mystery of the God-human relationship so ministers, priests, and pastors can follow the ethics and mechanics of counseling human...

    Published May 15th 2007 by Routledge