Gender Studies - Soc Sci Products

By Barbara Burrell

Women and Politics: A Quest for Political Equality in an Age of Economic Inequality describes the many ways in which women in the United States have used their voices in the political process. The book is about the involvement of women as individuals and about their group efforts to achieve…

Paperback – 2017-10-05 
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Routledge Series on Identity Politics

By Jennifer Fluri, Sharlene Mollett, Ann M Oberhauser, Risa Whitson

Feminist Spaces introduces students and academic researchers to major themes and empirical studies in feminist geography. It examines new areas of feminist research including: embodiment, sexuality, masculinity, intersectional analysis, and environment and development. In addition to considering…

Paperback – 2017-10-04 
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By Aidan Smith

Gender, Heteronormativity and the American Presidency places notions of gender at the centre of its analysis of presidential campaign communications. Over the decades, an investment in gendered representations of would-be leaders has changed little, in spite of the second and third wave feminist…

Hardback – 2017-10-04 
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Global Gender

By Kristine Aquino

Filipino migrants constitute one of the largest global diasporas today. In Australia, Filipino settlement is markedly framed by the country’s on-going nation-building project that continues to racialise immigrants and delineate the possibilities and limits of belonging to the national community.…

Hardback – 2017-10-02 
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Routledge Series on Asian Migration

By Leslie Hume

First published in 1981, this book traces the history of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897-1914. Whereas most historians have focused on the more militant aspect of the struggle for female enfranchisement, embodied by the Women’s Political and Social Union (WPSU),…

Paperback – 2017-09-30 
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Edited by Rachel Colls, Abi McNiven

This edited collection provides a distinctive contribution to motherhood studies by addressing how becoming a mother is influenced not just by place and space but also by time and temporality. It explores the complexity and multiple temporalities that surround mothering, such as dreaming about…

Hardback – 2017-09-30 
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Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Edited by Rosemarie Buikema, Liedeke Plate, Kathrin Thiele

Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with an international focus and relevance across a broad range of academic disciplines. Covering an array of topics, theories and approaches to gender studies, it introduces students to the study of gender through…

Paperback – 2017-09-27 
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By Mary-Anne McAllum

Emerging from a case study in secondary schools, this book explores young bisexual women’s notions of bisexuality through their own sense of self-identification and how they express their personal beliefs. McAllum sheds light on the presence and practices of "bisexual misrecognition" and "…

Hardback – 2017-09-22 
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Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education

Edited by Ann Taket, Beth R. Crisp

While promoting access to resources and systems of support for those affected by gender-based violence is absolutely crucial, this new book focuses attention on the important question of how communities can take action to prevent violence and abuse. Using examples of current research and practice,…

Paperback – 2017-09-21 
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Edited by Jolene Zigarovich

This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms explicitly engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. The collection is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics…

Hardback – 2017-09-19 
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

By Marie Segrave, Sanja Milivojevic, Sharon Pickering

The second volume of Sex Trafficking: International context and response Human trafficking and modern slavery have captured the imagination and attention of the international community. This book builds on the authors’ first volume, Sex Trafficking. Much has changed since the first volume was…

Hardback – 2017-09-18 
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By Janine Natalya Clark

It is estimated that 20,000 people were subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence during the 1992–1995 Bosnian war. Today, these men and women have been largely forgotten. Where are they now? To what extent do their experiences continue to affect and influence their lives, and the lives…

Hardback – 2017-09-15 
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Transitional Justice