Gender Books

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21. Everyday Pornography

    Edited by Karen Boyle

    Public and academic debate about ‘porn culture’ is proliferating. Ironically, what is often lost in these debates is a sense of what is specific about pornography. By focusing on pornography’s mainstream – contemporary commercial products for a heterosexual male audience – Everyday Pornography...

    Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge
22. Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture

    Edited by Rosemarie Buikema, Iris van der Tuin

    Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture is an introductory text for students specialising in gender studies. The truly interdisciplinary and intergenerational approach bridges the gap between humanities and the social sciences, and it showcases the academic and social context in which gender studies...

    Published May 17th 2009 by Routledge
23. Feminist Film Theorists

    Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed

    By Shohini Chaudhuri

    Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

    Focusing on the ground-breaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis and Barbara Creed, this book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has revolutionized the way that films and their spectators can be understood. Examining the new and distinctive...

    Published August 23rd 2006 by Routledge
24. On Language and Sexual Politics

    By Deborah Cameron

    This collection of articles presents a selection of Deborah Cameron’s work on language, gender and sex in one single volume. Arranged thematically, this book covers major developments in Anglo-American feminist linguistics, and Cameron’s responses to these, spanning the last twenty years. The...

    Published February 2nd 2006 by Routledge
25. Too Much Too Young

    Popular Music Age and Gender

    By Sheila Whiteley

    Too Much Too Young investigates how age and gender have shaped the careers and images of pop music stars, examining the role of youth and youthfulness in pop music through a series of themed case studies. Whiteley begins by investigating the exploitation of child stars such as Brenda Lee and...

    Published March 22nd 2005 by Routledge
26. Women and Islam

    Critical Concepts in Sociology

    Edited by Haideh Moghissi

    Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

    This three-volume interdisciplinary collection is of use not only in Middle East studies but also in various other disciplines, including women's studies, political science, religion, cultural studies, sociology of gender and anthropology.The collection offers the most influential writings in...

    Published September 29th 2004 by Routledge
27. Gender and Candidate Communication

    VideoStyle, WebStyle, NewStyle

    Edited by Dianne G. Bystrom, Terry Robertson, Mary Christine Banwart, Lynda Lee Kaid

    Series: Gender Politics--Global Issues

    Published August 28th 2004 by Routledge
28. Hardboiled and High Heeled

    The Woman Detective in Popular Culture

    By Linda Mizejewski

    Can a gumshoe wear high heels? In a genre long dominated by men, women are now taking their place-as authors and as characters-alongside hard-boiled legends like Sam Spade and Mike Hammer. Hardboiled and High Heeled examines the meteoric rise of the female detective in contemporary film,...

    Published April 14th 2004 by Routledge
29. Feminist Visual Culture

    Edited by Fiona Carson, Claire Pajaczkowska

    Published February 4th 2001 by Routledge
30. Queer Looks

    By Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson

    Queer Looks is a collection of writing by video artists, filmmakers, and critics which explores the recent explosion of lesbian and gay independent media culture. A compelling compilation of artists' statements and critical theory, producer interviews and image-text works, this anthology...

    Published September 19th 1993 by Routledge