Gender Books

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1. 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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex

   By Judith Butler

   In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most "material" dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-61015-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. 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...

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

7. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: 2nd Edition

   Edited by Steven Seidman, Nancy Fischer, Chet Meeks

   As the field of sexuality studies has become a growth area in academia and classes on sexuality studies are incorporated into various disciplines, the expanding book market has been filled with specialist oriented texts which are often theoretically focused and contain too many summaries for an...

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

8. Anarchism and Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power

   Edited by Jamie Heckert, Richard Cleminson

   Anarchism and Sexuality: Dangerous Desires brings the rich traditions of anarchist thought and practice to contemporary questions about the politics of sexuality. Overflowing and undermining governmental divisions between the personal and political, heterosexual and homosexual, activism...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-59989-4 | 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,...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-55558-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Islamic Medicine

    By Muhammad Salim Khan

    Originally published in 1986, this volume deals with the historical, philosophical and psychological concepts found in Islamic medical practices, and covers Islamic ideas on physiological, pathological, curative and preventative medicine. This was the first systematic study of Islamic medicine...

    December 2010 | 978-0-415-61178-7 | Paperback (Routledge)