Sexuality - Gender Studies Products

By Meg John Barker

We live in a time of uncertainty about relationships. We search for The One but find ourselves staying single because nobody measures up. We long for a happily-ever-after but break-up after break-up leave us bruised and confused. Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and…

Paperback – 2018-03-14
Routledge

By Elija Cassidy

This book explores how the social and technical integration of mainstream social media into gay men’s digital cultures since the mid 2000s has played out in the lives of young gay men, looking at how these convergences have influenced more recent iterations of gay men’s digital culture. Focusing on…

Hardback – 2018-03-12
Routledge
Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

Edited by Shane Blackman, Michelle Kempson

The Subcultural Imagination discusses young adults in subcultures and examines how sociologists use qualitative research methods to study them. Through the application of the ideas of C. Wright Mills to the development of theory-reflexive ethnography, this book analyses the experiences of young…

Paperback – 2018-03-09
Routledge
Youth, Young Adulthood and Society

By Kath Browne, Eduarda Ferreira

It has long been recognised that the spatialisation of sexual lives is always gendered. Sexism and male dominance are a pervasive reality and lesbian issues are rarely afforded the same prominence as gay issues. Thus, lesbian geographies continue to be a salient axis of difference, challenging the…

Paperback – 2018-02-06
Routledge

Edited by Chantal Zabus, David Coad

This collection by trans and non-trans academics and artists from the United States, the UK, and continental Europe, examines how transgenderism can be conceptualized in a literary, biographical, and autobiographical framework, with emphasis on place, ethnicity and visibility. The volume covers the…

Paperback – 2018-02-06
Routledge
Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

By Robert Payne

Liking, sharing, friending, going viral: what would it mean to recognize these current modes of media interaction as promiscuous? In a contemporary network culture characterized by a proliferation of new forms of intimate mediated sociality, this book argues that promiscuity is a new standard of…

Paperback – 2018-02-05
Routledge
Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

Edited by David J. Leonard, Kimberly B. George, Wade Davis

What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport and for the entertainment culture in which it exists? This book brings together scholars and sport commentators to…

Paperback – 2018-01-30
Routledge
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Edited by Greta Olson, Mirjam Horn-Schott, Daniel Hartley, Regina Leonie Schmidt

Scholars and activists often narrate the history of gender and feminism as a progression of "waves," said to mark high points of innovation in theory and moments of political breakthrough. Arguing for the notion of multiple futurities over that of progressive waves, Beyond Gender combines…

Hardback – 2018-01-29
Routledge
Routledge Research in Gender and Society

By Heather Panter

Building on comparative research in the U.K. and the U.S.A., this is the first book focused specifically on transgender experiences within policing. It examines the issues faced by the transgender community within policing and explores how gender, and the non-conformity of it, is perceived within…

Hardback – 2018-01-29
Routledge
Routledge Critical Studies in Crime, Diversity and Criminal Justice

By Rhonda Gibson

According to polls, from the early noughties to now, public support for same-sex marriage has increased dramatically. Same-Sex Marriage and Social Media asks how such a rate of attitude change came about and, more specifically, what role social media played. Digital platforms like Facebook, Twitter…

Paperback – 2018-01-25
Routledge

Edited by Dreama G. Moon, Michelle A. Holling

Race(ing) Intercultural Communication signals a crucial intervention in the field, as well as in wider society, where social and political events are calling for new ways of making sense of race in the 21st century. Contributors to this book work at multiple intersections, theoretically and…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
Routledge

Edited by Christina Gowlett, Mary Lou Rasmussen

The Cultural Politics of Queer Theory in Education Research represents the editors’ intention to disrupt cycles of thinking about the place of queer theory in educational research. The book aims to encourage dialogue about the objects and subjects of queer research, the forms of politics incited by…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
Routledge