Gender & Sexuality Books

New and Published Books

1. Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments

   A Guide for Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth and Families

   Edited by Emily S. Fisher, Karen Komosa-Hawkins

   The importance of creating safe spaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students in the school environment cannot be overstated. It is one of the most prominent issues facing school professionals today, and its success has lasting, positive effects on the entire...

   Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
2. Gender Inclusive Engineering Education

   By Julie Mills, Mary Elizabeth Ayre, Judith Gill

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Women continue to comprise a small minority of students in engineering education and subsequent employment, despite the numerous initiatives over the past 25 years to attract and retain more women in engineering. This book demonstrates the ways in which traditional engineering education has not...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self

   (Re)constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices

   Edited by Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas Bean

   Today’s youth live in the interface of the local and the global. Research is documenting how a world youth culture is developing, how global migration is impacting youth, how global capitalism is changing their economic and vocational futures, and how computer-mediated communication with the world...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Equity and Inclusion in Physical Education and Sport

   Edited by Gary Stidder, Sid Hayes

   An essential component of good practice in physical education is ensuring inclusivity for all pupils, regardless of need, ability or background. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, Equity and Inclusion in Physical Education fully explores the theoretical and practical issues faced by...

   Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. Postfeminist Education?

   Girls and the Sexual Politics of Schooling

   By Jessica Ringrose

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   This book challenges a contemporary postfeminist sensibility grounded not only in assumptions that gender and sexual equality has been achieved in many Western contexts, but that feminism has gone ‘too far’ with women and girls now overtaking men and boys - positioned as the new victims of gender...

   Published July 8th 2012 by Routledge
6. Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning

   Edited by Marion Bowl, Robert Tobias, Jennifer Leahy, Graeme Ferguson, Jeffrey Gage

   Gender, Masculinities and Lifelong Learning reflects on current debates and discourses around gender and education, in which some academics, practitioners and policy-makers have referred to a crisis of masculinity. This book explores questions such as: Are men under-represented in education? Are...

   Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
7. Feminist Critique of Education

   Fifteen Years of Gender Development

   Edited by Christine Skelton, Becky Francis

   Series: Education Heritage

   This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in gender and education over the last fifteen years. It includes over thirty-five seminal articles from the journal Gender and Education, written by many of the leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Gender, Race, and the Politics of Role Modelling

   The Influence of Male Teachers

   By Wayne Martino, Goli Rezai-Rashti

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book provides an illuminating account of teachers’ own reflections on their experiences of teaching in urban schools. It was conceived as a direct response to policy-related and media-generated concerns about male teacher shortage and offers a critique of the call for more male role models in...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Rethinking Gendered Regulations and Resistances in Education

   Edited by Jessica Ringrose

   Rethinking Gendered Regulations and Resistances in Education highlights key debates on the theme of ‘regulation and resistance’, focusing on some of the most pressing contemporary issues in the field of gender and education today. It underlines the need for educational research to attend to...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. Schooling for Women's Work

    Edited by Rosemary Deem

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This collection of original papers shows how women in Britain are still being discriminated against during schooling, despite the existence of legislation prohibiting such discrimination and despite apparent concern with promoting equality between the sexes in education. Focusing on the current...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge