Forthcoming Gender Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Media, Religion and Gender

   Key Issues and New Challenges

   Edited by Mia Lövheim

   Series: Media, Religion and Culture

   Media, Religion and Gender presents a selection of eminent current scholarship that explores the role gender plays when religion, media use and values in contemporary society interact. The book: surveys the development of research on media, religion and culture through the lens of key...

   To Be Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. African American Women in the News

   Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism

   By Marian Meyers

   African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates...

   To Be Published May 27th 2013 by Routledge
3. Digital Technologies for Democratic Governance in Latin America

   Opportunities and Risks

   Edited by Anita Breuer, Yanina Welp

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

   This book is the first to comprehensively analyse the political and societal impacts of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in a region of the Global South. It evaluates under what conditions some Latin American governments and people have succeeded in taking up the opportunities...

   To Be Published October 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Companion to Media & Gender

   Edited by Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner, Lisa McLaughlin

   The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender explores the role of a broad range of media forms, practices and consumption processes in reproducing or resisting conventional notions of gender and in reinforcing or challenging gendered inequalities. The collected essays offer a wide-ranging engagement...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Women and the Media

   Feminism and Femininity in Britain, 1900 to the Present

   Edited by Maggie Andrews, Sallie McNamara

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   The media have played a significant role in the contested and changing social position of women in Britain since the 1900s. They have facilitated feminism by both providing discourses and images from which women can construct their identities, and offering spaces where hegemonic ideas of femininity...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. The Culture of Digital Fighting Games

   Performance and Practice

   By Todd Harper

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   This book examines the complex network of influences that collide in the culture of digital fighting games. Players from all over the world engage in competitive combat with one another, forming communities in both real and virtual spaces, attending tournaments and battling online via...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Ethics of Vulnerability

   By Erinn Gilson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   As concerns about violence, war, terrorism, and the definition of life have garnered attention in philosophy, the concept of vulnerability has become a shared reference point in these discussions. Vulnerability is emphasized not just because it is a fundamental part of the human condition, but also...

   To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
8. Power and Diversity in Public Relations

   By Lee Edwards

   Series: Routledge New Directions in Public Relations & Communication Research

   Power and Diversity in Public Relations reveals the ways in which power operates within the occupational field of PR, specifically in the service of the construction of practitioner identity and occupational belonging and exclusion. It explores the experiences of PR practitioners whose ethnicity...

   To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
9. Media and Gender

   An Introduction

   By Tonny Krijnen, Sofie Van Bauwel

   To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge