Gender Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents

   An Interdisciplinary Discussion

   Edited by Jack Drescher, William Byne

   Extremely gender variant children and adolescents (minors), increasingly referred to as 'trans' or 'transgender children,' are small in number. In recent years, their situation has become highly sensationalized, whilst the matter of how to best treat them remains an area of controversy. A growing...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Gender: The Key Concepts

   Edited by Mary Evans, Carolyn Williams

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   This invaluable volume provides an overview of 37 terms, theories and concepts frequently used in gender studies which those studying the subject can find difficult to grasp. Each entry provides a critical definition of the concept, examining the background to the idea, its usage and the major...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. Heterosexuality in Theory and Practice

   By Chris Beasley, Heather Brook, Mary Holmes

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theories about the intersection of sexuality with other markers of difference, and gender in particular. The outcome will productively upset equations of heterosexuality with heteronormativity and...

   Published June 24th 2012 by Routledge
6. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man

   Psychoanalysis and Masculinity

   By Donald Moss

   Images and ideas associated with masculinity are forever in flux. In this book, Donald Moss addresses the never-ending effort of men—regardless of sexual orientation—to shape themselves in relation to the unstable notion of masculinity. Part 1 looks at the lifelong labor faced by boys and men of...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
7. Feminist Studies

   A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing

   By Nina Lykke

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
8. Transgender Migrations

   The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition

   Edited by Trystan Cotten

   Series: New Directions in American History

   Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the (an?) other, but the way that trans people migrate in the larger...

   Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge
9. The New Politics of Masculinity

   Men, Power and Resistance

   By Fidelma Ashe

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   The field of masculinities research continues to expand, and has become increasingly complex. Much of the contemporary analysis of men, masculinity and power has been influenced by the work of a number of profeminist writers who have been leading figures in developing new political interventions...

   Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
10. Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature

    By Tison Pugh

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature examines distinguished classics of children’s literature both old and new—including L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of...

    Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge