Gender Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban

   Edited by Linda Peake, Martina Rieker

   In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of women and the neoliberal urban. In a world in...

   Published May 16th 2013 by Routledge
2. Feminist Geopolitics

   At the Sharp End

   Edited by Deborah P. Dixon, Sallie A. Marston

   Building on a trans-disciplinary, feminist project that foregrounds the bodies of those at the ‘sharp end’ of various forms of international activity, such as immigration, development and warfare, the chapters included in this book cover a variety of sites, concerns, and hopes. These range from the...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Law on the Use of Force

   A Feminist Analysis

   By Gina Heathcote

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   The book presents the international laws on the use of force whilst demonstrating the unique insight a feminist analysis offers this central area of international law. The book highlights key conceptual barriers to the enhanced application of the law of the use of force, and develops international...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Coming of Age

   Women's Colleges in the Philippines During the Post-Marcos Era

   By Francesca Purcell

   In view of the increasing number of Third World countries considering the establishment of women's colleges to meet the demand for the higher education of women, presenting a case study of two key women's colleges in the Philippines. Within the context of global, national and local changes since...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960

   By Gloria Chuku

   Series: African Studies

   This study analyzes the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society, with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro....

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Body and Everyday Life

   By Helen Thomas

   Series: The New Sociology

   In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting,...

   Published April 23rd 2013 by Routledge
7. My New Gender Workbook

   A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity, 2nd Edition

   By Kate Bornstein

   "My Gender Workbook may take a leap of faith to crack open, but the charm, wit, and quiet intelligence of its author will almost undoubtedly keep you along for the whole trip. And it is a trip, let me tell you." —The Toronto Star Cultural theorists have written loads of smart but...

   Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
8. Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China

   Becoming a 'Modern' Man

   By Xiaodong Lin

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
9. Risk

   Second Edition

   By Deborah Lupton

   Series: Key Ideas

   Risk (second edition) is a fully revised and expanded update of a highly-cited, influential and well-known book. It reviews the three major approaches to risk in social and cultural theory, devoting a chapter to each one. These approaches were first identified and described by Deborah Lupton in the...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
10. Feminist International Relations

    'Exquisite Corpse'

    By Marysia Zalewski

    Series: Interventions

    This book offers a contemporary intervention in the field of feminism/international relations. Partly inspired by Surrealism, the book is written in a series of vignettes and draws on a variety of approaches inviting readers in to inhabit the text. It is a politically engaged book, though one which...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge