Gender Books

New and Published Books

1. Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban

   Edited by Linda Peake, Martina Rieker

   In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of women and the neoliberal urban. In a world in...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Chinese Male Homosexualities

   Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy

   By Travis S. K. Kong

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men. It provides a sociological account of masculinity, desire, sexuality, identity and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies, and within the constellation of global culture. Kong...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire

   Edited by Robert Leckey, Kim Brooks

   Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engaged in queer theory...

   Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge
4. Men, Law and Gender

   Essays on the ‘Man’ of Law

   By Richard Collier

   What does it mean to speak of ‘men’ as a gender category in relation to law? How does law relate to masculinities? This book presents the first comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the relationship between men, law and gender; outlining the contours of the ‘man’ of law across diverse...

   Published July 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
5. Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan

   Sexing Class

   Edited by Ruth Barraclough, Elyssa Faison

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   Bringing together for the first time sexual and industrial labour as the means to understand gender, work and class in modern Japan and Korea, this book shows that a key feature of the industrialisation of these countries was the associated development of a modern sex labour industry. Tying...

   Published April 10th 2011 by Routledge
6. Gender, Household and State in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam

   By Jayne Werner

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   This book examines gender in post-revolutionary Vietnam, focusing on gender relations in the family and state since the onset of economic reform in 1986. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources (including surveys, interviews, and responses to film screenings), Jayne Werner demonstrates that...

   Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
7. Gender Circuits

   Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age

   By Eve Shapiro

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies. Examining the complex intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information and biomedical technologies, and embodied...

   Published February 8th 2010 by Routledge
8. The Atlas of Women in the World

   4th Edition

   By Joni Seager

   Series: The Earthscan Atlas

   'When is an atlas a page-turner? When it makes the female half of the world visible in reliable statistics and glorious graphics. Nobody should be without this book.' Gloria Steinem 'A wonderfully illuminating and clear sighted book. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the reality...

   Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
9. Embodied Utopias

   Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis

   Edited by Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders, Rebecca Zorach

   Series: Architext

   Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an arrogant disregard for the lived experiences of the ordinary inhabitants who make daily use of global public and private...

   Published October 24th 2001 by Routledge