Routledge Women's and Gender Studies - Books, News and ConferencesATOM feed of recently featured books, news, conferences and more.en-us2013-02-04T08:31:26QCopyright (c) 2013, RoutledgeRoutledgewebmaster@example.comtag:,2013:02:0355Wellesley College Appoints Layli Maparyan New Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Womentag:,2012:/blurbs/21.84262012-04-24T15:35:35Q2012-04-24T15:38:36QFeatured Book: Surviving Dictatorshiptag:,2012:/articles/1.83292012-04-10T13:55:14Q2012-04-10T13:58:15Q
Jacqueline Adams' Surviving Dictatorship focuses on shantytown women in Pinochet's Chile, examining how they join groups to cope with exacerbated impoverishment and targeted repression, and how this leads them into very varied forms of resistance aimed at self-protection, community-building, and mounting an offensive.
]]>Featured Book: Sex/Gendertag:,2012:/articles/1.83252012-04-10T13:13:16Q2012-04-10T13:16:17Q
Anne Fausto-Sterling'sSex/Gender is the only interdisciplinary book for undergraduate courses to explain sex and gender from a biological, social, and cultural perspective.
]]>Featured Book: Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroadstag:,2012:/articles/1.76842012-02-06T13:58:12Q2012-02-06T14:16:13QFeminist Solidarity at the Crossroads articulates a politics of commitment, hope, and possibility wrought in the coming-together of a group of feminist women and men—across racial, cultural, nation/state, sexual, and gender differences—during a tough budgetary time threatening Women’s Studies programs across the nation.
]]>Featured Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionalitytag:,2012:/blurbs/21.76732012-02-03T16:24:43Q2012-02-03T16:28:45QFeatured Book: Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studiestag:,2012:/articles/1.76712012-02-03T16:15:44Q2012-02-03T16:17:45Q"[Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies'] focus on key words in women’s and gender studies admirably maps past debates, interrogates unexamined assumptions, and pushes the boundaries of the field into new areas such as religion. An absorbing read for WGS faculty and excellent for intermediate/advanced courses in WGS."—Susan Stanford Friedman, Women’s Studies and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
]]>Featured Book: The Womanist Ideatag:,2012:/articles/1.76702012-02-03T16:08:40Q2012-02-03T16:11:41Q
Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader, Layli Maparyan's The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism.
]]>View Our Latest Women’s and Gender Studies Catalog!tag:,2012:/blurbs/21.76692012-02-03T16:01:28Q2012-02-03T16:07:29QLooking for a book for a course?tag:,2012:/blurbs/21.76742012-02-02T16:34:51Q2012-02-03T16:36:52QTransforming Scholarship Named Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011tag:,2012:/blurbs/21.74452012-01-03T21:29:16Q2012-02-03T15:52:17QMaking Transnational Feminism Wins the SSSP Global Division’s 2011 Outstanding Book Awardtag:,2011:/blurbs/21.69752011-10-19T14:01:03Q2012-02-06T14:18:05QAuthors Kathryn Hausbeck Korgan, Crystal Jackson, and Barb Brents in the Chronicle of Higher Edtag:,2011:/blurbs/21.67562011-10-01T13:59:34Q2012-02-06T14:17:35Q