Gender Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Feminist Geopolitics

   At the Sharp End

   Edited by Deborah P. Dixon, Sallie A. Marston

   Building on a trans-disciplinary, feminist project that foregrounds the bodies of those at the ‘sharp end’ of various forms of international activity, such as immigration, development and warfare, the chapters included in this book cover a variety of sites, concerns, and hopes. These range from the...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia

   By Bina D’Costa

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   This book gives a detailed political analysis of nationbuilding processes and how these are closely linked to statebuilding and to issues of war crime, gender and sexuality, and marginalization of minority groups. With a focus on the Indian subcontinent, the author demonstrates how the state...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Resisting Injustice and the Feminist Ethics of Care in the Age of Obama

   “Suddenly,…All the Truth Was Coming Out”

   By David A.J. Richards

   Series: Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance

   David A. J. Richards’s Resisting Injustice and The Feminist Ethics of Care in The Age of Obama: "Suddenly,…All The Truth Was Coming Out" builds on his and Carol Gilligan’s The Deepening Darkness to examine the roots of the resistance movements of the 1960s, the political psychology behind...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Promise and Perils of Transnationalization

   NGO Activism and the Socialization of Women’s Human Rights in Egypt and Iran

   By Benjamin Stachursky

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   To date, most constructivist international relations studies have characterized the influence of transnationalism on domestic forms of activism as uniformly positive. In particular, transnational interactions are viewed as positive factors for the development and daily impact of gender activism....

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
5. New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights

   Edited by Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcon, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott

   On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights. Interdisciplinary feminist conversations among scholar-activists can both challenge and enrich new directions in feminism and...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. Joy and International Relations

   A New Methodology

   By Elina Penttinen

   Series: War, Politics and Experience

   This book aims to develop new methodology for the study of international relations (IR) based on joy, informed by current thinking about posthumanism, feminist theory and positive psychology. It examines how the mechanistic-deterministic worldview derived from the Newtonian model has influenced the...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism

   The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com

   By Betty Kaklamanidou

   Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

   The romantic comedy has long been regarded as an inferior film genre by critics and scholars alike, accused of maintaining a strict narrative formula which is considered superficial and highly predictable. However, the genre has resisted the negative scholarly and critical comments and for the last...

   Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge
8. Global Movement

   Edited by Ruth Reitan

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Critical research and theorizing on the Anti- or Alter-Globalization Movement has exploded over the last two decades. This volume provides a platform for scholar-activists themselves to share insights from engaged research and to critically reflect on movement histories and internal dynamics. It...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. Framing Sarah Palin

   Pit Bulls, Puritans, and Politics

   By Linda Beail, Rhonda Kinney Longworth

   Sarah Palin’s 2008 vice presidential candidacy garnered tremendous levels of interest, polarizing the American public—both Democrats and Republicans alike. While many have wondered who she "really" is, trying to cut through the persona she projects and the one projected by the media, Beail and...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. The Gender of Democracy

    Citizenship and Gendered Subjectivity

    By Maro Pantelidou Maloutas

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

    As developments in the European Union and elsewhere make the re-examination of citizenship a pressing issue, this book reflects on the persisting "masculine" character of contemporary democracy and the measures taken in the EU to combat it. Combining a theoretical approach with a specific critique...

    Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge