Sexuality - Gender Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Policing Sex

   Edited by Paul Johnson, Derek Dalton

   This collection focuses attention on an important but academically neglected area of contemporary operational policing: the regulation of consensual sexual practices. Despite the high-level public visibility of, and debate about, policing in relation to violent and abusive sexual crimes (from child...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health

   Edited by Lenore Manderson

   Series: Sexuality, Culture and Health

   Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people’s sexual health and well-being. Its impetus is the renewed interest in...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Sexualities, Work and Organizations

   By James Ward

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   Sexuality is arguably the most under-researched of all diversity areas in work organizations. This book brings together and relates stories of minority sexual identity from six organizations drawn from three different industry sectors: the Emergency Services, the Civil Service and the Banking...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Gay Games

   A History

   By Caroline Symons

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   The Gay Games is an important piece of new social history, examining one of the largest sporting, cultural and human rights events in the world. Since their inception in 1980, the Gay Games have developed into a multi-million dollar mega-event, engaging people from all continents, while the...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Sex/Gender

   Biology in a Social World

   By Anne Fausto-Sterling

   Series: The Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture

   Sex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences. This book gives a clearly written explanation of the biological and cultural underpinnings of gender. Anne Fausto-Sterling...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
8. Chinese Male Homosexualities

   Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy

   By Travis S. K. Kong

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men. It provides a sociological account of masculinity, desire, sexuality, identity and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies, and within the constellation of global culture. Kong...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
9. Gender, Sexualities and Law

   Edited by Jackie Jones, Anna Grear, Rachel Anne Fenton, Kim Stevenson

   Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of contemporary issues – both topical and controversial – raised by the gendered character of law, legal discourse and institutions. The gendering of law,...

   Published April 13th 2012 by Routledge
10. Routledge Handbook of Body Studies

    Edited by Bryan Turner

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge