Women's Studies Products

By Carole Ammann

This book examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, political, and social insecurities that emerge in times of political…

Hardback – 2020-03-17 
Routledge
Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa

Edited by Vina A. Lanzona, Frederik Rettig

This book brings together a wide range of case studies to explore the experiences and significance of women warriors in Southeast Asian history from ancient to contemporary times. Using a number of sources, including royal chronicles, diaries, memoirs and interviews, the book discusses why women…

Hardback – 2020-02-10 
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Edited by Barbara Spadaro, Katrina Yeaw

Women in the Modern History of Libya features histories of Libyan women exploring the diversity of cultures, languages and memories of Libya from the age of the Empires to the present. The chapters explore a series of institutional and private archives inside and outside Libya, illuminating…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
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Edited by Yulia Gradskova, Ildikó Asztalos Morell

Gendering Postsocialism explores changes in gendered norms and expectations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The dismantlement of state socialism in these regions triggered monumental shifts in their economic landscape, the involvement of their welfare states in…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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Edited by Kate Macdonald

This book is the first collection on the British author Rose Macaulay (1881-1958). The essays establish connections in her work between modernism and the middlebrow, show Macaulay’s attentiveness to reformulating contemporary depictions of gender in her fiction, and explore how her writing…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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Edited by Marina Rojavin, Tim Harte

This book illuminates and explores the representation of women in Soviet cinema from the late 1950s, through the 1960s, and into the 1970s, a period when Soviet culture shifted away, to varying degrees, from the well-established conventions of socialist realism. Covering films about working…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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Edited by Sonora Jha, Alka Kurian

This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives. It brings incisive and expert analyses of emerging disruptive articulations that represent an unprecedented…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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By Kathleen Smith

This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the ways in which women responded to the regulation of their behavior by focusing on representations of women speakers and their audiences in moments Smith identifies as "scenes of speech." This new approach, examining speech…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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Edited by Jieyu Liu, Junko Yamashita

The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies presents up-to-date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach. Featuring contributions by leading scholars of Gender Studies to provide a cutting-edge overview of the…

Hardback – 2019-12-13 
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By Lizelle Bisschoff, Stefanie Van de Peer

Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic showcases the very prolific but often marginalised presence of women in African cinema, both on the screen and behind the camera. This study provides the first in-depth and sustained study of women in African cinema. Films by women from different…

Paperback – 2019-12-05
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Edited by Angeliki Pollali, Berthold Hub

Studies on gender and sexuality have proliferated in the last decades, covering a wide spectrum of disciplines. This collection of essays offers a metanarrative of sexuality as it has been recently embedded in the art historical discourse of the European Renaissance. It revisits ‘canonical’ forms…

Paperback – 2019-11-09
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Visual Culture in Early Modernity

By Christine Forster, Jaya Sagade

This book focuses on women’s human rights in India. Drawing on case studies, it provides a clear overview of the key sources on gender and rights in the country. Further, it contextualizes women’s rights at the critical intersection of caste, religion and class, and analyses barriers to the…

Paperback – 2019-08-27
Routledge India