Gender Politics Books

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31. Women and Representation in Local Government

    International Case Studies

    Edited by Barbara Pini

    Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

    Women and Representation in Local Government opens up an opportunity to critique and move beyond suppositions and labels in relation to women in local government. Presenting a wealth of new empirical material, this book brings together international experts to examine and compare the presence of...

    Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge
32. Sexual Justice / Cultural Justice

    Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice

    Edited by Barbara Arneil, Monique Deveaux, Rita Dhamoon, Avigail Eisenberg

    Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

    This key volume explores the relationship between cultural justice and sexual justice in multicultural societies in a new light. The authors challenge the framing of ‘feminism and multiculturalism’ as one of inevitable conflict, as well as the portrayal of liberal sexual equality and cultural...

    Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
33. Women's Movements

    Flourishing or in abeyance?

    Edited by Sandra Grey, Marian Sawer

    Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

    Written by leading women's movement scholars, this book is the first to systematically apply the idea of social movement abeyance to differing national and international contexts. Its starting point is the idea that the women's movement is over, an idea promoted in the media and encouraged by...

    Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
34. The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion

    Identity Politics in Twenty-First Century America

    Edited by David Ericson

    Assessing the limits of pluralism, this book examines different types of political inclusion and exclusion and their distinctive dimensions and dynamics. Why are particular social groups excluded from equal participation in political processes? How do these groups become more fully included as...

    Published December 19th 2010 by Routledge
35. Women's Rights in the USA

    Policy Debates and Gender Roles, 4th Edition

    By Dorothy E. McBride, Janine A. Parry

    In Women’s Rights in the USA, Fourth Edition, McBride and Parry examine the policy debates critical to women in American society. Analyzing both the historical contexts and current controversies, the authors show the processes behind the statutes, court cases, and administrative rules pertaining to...

    Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge
36. Experiencing War

    Edited by Christine Sylvester

    Series: War, Politics and Experience

    This edited collection explores aspects of contemporary war that affect average people –physically, emotionally, and ethically through activities ranging from combat to television viewing. The aim of this work is to supplement the usual emphasis on strategic and national issues of war in the...

    Published October 12th 2010 by Routledge
37. Gender and Global Restructuring

    Sightings, Sites and Resistances, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Marianne H. Marchand, Anne Sisson Runyan

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    In this new edition of this best selling text, interdisciplinary feminist experts from around the world provide new analyses of the ongoing relationship between gender and neoliberal globalization under the new imperialism in the post-9/11 context. Divided into Sightings, Sites and Resistances,...

    Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge
38. Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking

    Corporeal Politics

    By Elina Penttinen

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    Globalization has been traditionally interpreted as a phenomenon that takes place at the macro level and is determined by states and markets. This volume takes a different approach to understanding globalization, showing how through the global sex trade, globalization is embodied and enacted by...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
39. Governing International Labour Migration

    Current Issues, Challenges and Dilemmas

    Edited by Christina Gabriel, Hélène Pellerin

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    This book offers a critical examination of the way in which the nature and governance of international labour migration is changing within a globalizing environment. It examines how labour mobility and the governance of labour migration are changing by exploring the links between political economy...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
40. Sex Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice

    Edited by Tiantian Zheng

    Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights

    The recognition of women’s human rights to migrate and work as sex workers is disregarded and dismissed by anti-trafficking discourses of rescue in the latest United Nation’s definition of trafficking. This volume explores the life experiences, agency, and human rights of trafficked women in order...

    Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge