Gender Books

New and Published Books

1. Masculinity in Opera

   Edited by Philip Purvis

   Series: Routledge Research in Music

   This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Although the consideration of masculine ontology and epistemology has pervaded cultural and sociological studies since the late 1980s, and masculinity has...

   Published June 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China

   Great Transformations Reconsidered

   By Francesca Bray

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

   What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world,...

   Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy

   Gender as Genre

   By John Alberti

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified...

   Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Life of Voices

   Bodies, Subjects and Dialogue

   By B. Hannah Rockwell

   The Life of Voices illustrates how human voices have special significance as the place where mind and body collaborate to produce everyday speech. Hannah Rockwell links Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of dialogue with French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s views of the...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. My New Gender Workbook

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

   By Kate Bornstein

   "This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature and, alongside Bornstein's other work, has influenced an...

   Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge
6. Feminist Challenges

   Social and Political Theory

   Edited by Carole Pateman, Elizabeth Grosz

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   In Feminist Challenges, first published in 1987, new and established scholars demonstrate the application of feminism in a range of academic disciplines including history, philosophy, politics, and sociology. As Carole Pateman notes in her introduction, ‘all the contributors raise some...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
7. Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals)

   Women in the Victorian Age

   Edited by Martha Vicinus

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1972, this book contains a collection of ten essays that document the feminine stereotypes that women fought against, and only partially erased, a hundred years ago. In an introductory essay, Martha Vicinus describes the perfect Victorian lady, showing that the ideal was a...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
8. A Widening Sphere (Routledge Revivals)

   Changing Roles of Victorian Women

   Edited by Martha Vicinus

   Series: QSAR in Environmental and Health Sciences

   First published in 1977, this book is a companion volume to Suffer and Be Still. It looks at the widening sphere of women’s activities in the Victorian age and testifies to the dual nature of the legal and social constraints of the period: on the one hand, the ideal of the perfect lady and the...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
9. 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
10. Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing

    The Innovative Appetites of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David

    By Alice McLean

    Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

    This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a time when women's food writing was largely limited to the domestic cookbook, which helped to codify...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge