Gender Books

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1. Cities and Sexualities

   By Phil Hubbard

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-56647-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis

   By Rosemary M Balsam

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-39030-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era

   By Pamela Karimi

   Since 1979 the focus on Iran’s internal politics and its foreign relations has distracted attention from more subtle transformations, which took place prior to and in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution. This book explores Iranian domesticity and consumer culture from before the revolution...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-78183-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Gender, Development and the State in India

   By Carole Spary

   Gender, Development and the State in India offers an original contribution in two ways: firstly as an explicitly gender-focused study of the politics of development policy-making in India, and secondly, as an empirical study of the Indian case which rarely finds mention in the gender mainstreaming...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-61060-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. The Languages of Sexuality

   By Jeffrey Weeks

   Words, Freud once wrote, are like magic. Nowhere have words been more magical than in the writing of sexuality. Through words we learn what is good or bad, pleasurable or painful, significant and insignificant. The words used about sexuality do not simply describe something out there. They help...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-37573-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Victims, Gender and Jouissance

   By Victoria Grace

   Victims, Gender and Jouissance presents an in-depth exploration of the concept of the victim. Victoria Grace considers how feminist authors have appropriated this concept in the history of feminist theorising of gender in the West. She offers critical readings of major theorists of victimisation –...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-80618-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Handbook of Identity Studies

   Edited by Anthony Elliott

   Much talk these days is about identity: identity and its problems, the transformation of identity, and, perhaps most fashionably, the end of identity or ‘death of the subject.’ The Handbook of Identity Studies offers a remarkably clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences,...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-55558-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950

   Edited by Raquel Reyes, William G. Clarence-Smith

   Sexual Diversity in Asia is the first book of its kind to place sex acts in Asia at the forefront of historical investigation. The chapters explore the history of sodomy and other so-called transgressive sexual practices such as anal sex, same-sex erotic encounters, pederasty, bestiality, incest,...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-60059-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing: The Innovative Appetites of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David

   By Alice McLean

   In this study, McLean explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of three of the most eloquent food writers of the twentieth-century: M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a time when women's food writing...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-87138-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: 2nd Edition

    Edited by Steven Seidman, Nancy Fischer, Chet Meeks

    Breaking new ground, both substantively and stylistically, Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 2nd Edition offers students and academics an engaging, thought-provoking introduction and overview of the social study of sexualities. Its central premise is to explore the social construction of...

    February 2011 | 978-0-415-78126-8 | Paperback (Routledge)