Routledge Women's and Gender Studies - Books, News and Conferences ATOM feed of recently featured books, news, conferences and more. en-us 2013-04-05T15:40:11Q Copyright (c) 2013, Routledge Routledge webmaster@example.com tag:,2013:04:05 5 5 My New Gender Workbook - Second Edition Now Available tag:,2013:/articles/1.13561 2013-03-04T08:44:11Q 2013-03-04T09:11:12Q Would you like a step-by-step guide to achieving world peace through gender anarchy and sex positivity?

Cultural theorists have written loads of smart but difficult-to-fathom texts on gender theory, but most fail to provide a hands-on, accessible guide for those trying to sort out their own sexual identities. In My New Gender Workbook, transgender activist Kate Bornstein brings theory down to Earth and provides a practical approach to living with or without a gender.

]]> Wellesley College Appoints Layli Maparyan New Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women tag:,2012:/blurbs/21.8426 2012-04-24T15:35:35Q 2012-04-24T15:38:36Q Featured Book: Surviving Dictatorship tag:,2012:/articles/1.8329 2012-04-10T13:55:14Q 2012-04-10T13:58:15Q 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.

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]]> Featured Book: Sex/Gender tag:,2012:/articles/1.8325 2012-04-10T13:13:16Q 2012-04-10T13:16:17Q Anne Fausto-Sterling's Sex/Gender is the only interdisciplinary book for undergraduate courses to explain sex and gender from a biological, social, and cultural perspective.

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]]> Featured Book: Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads tag:,2012:/articles/1.7684 2012-02-06T13:58:12Q 2012-02-06T14:16:13Q Feminist 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.

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]]> Featured Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality tag:,2012:/blurbs/21.7673 2012-02-03T16:24:43Q 2012-02-03T16:28:45Q Featured Book: Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies tag:,2012:/articles/1.7671 2012-02-03T16:15:44Q 2012-02-03T16:17:45Q "[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

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]]> Featured Book: The Womanist Idea tag:,2012:/articles/1.7670 2012-02-03T16:08:40Q 2012-02-03T16:11:41Q Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader, Layli Maparyan's The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism.

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]]> View Our Latest Women’s and Gender Studies Catalog! tag:,2012:/blurbs/21.7669 2012-02-03T16:01:28Q 2012-02-03T16:07:29Q Looking for a book for a course? tag:,2012:/blurbs/21.7674 2012-02-02T16:34:51Q 2012-02-03T16:36:52Q Transforming Scholarship Named Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 tag:,2012:/blurbs/21.7445 2012-01-03T21:29:16Q 2012-02-03T15:52:17Q Making Transnational Feminism Wins the SSSP Global Division’s 2011 Outstanding Book Award tag:,2011:/blurbs/21.6975 2011-10-19T14:01:03Q 2012-02-06T14:18:05Q Authors Kathryn Hausbeck Korgan, Crystal Jackson, and Barb Brents in the Chronicle of Higher Ed tag:,2011:/blurbs/21.6756 2011-10-01T13:59:34Q 2012-02-06T14:17:35Q