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21. Feminist International Relations

    'Exquisite Corpse'

    By Marysia Zalewski

    Series: Interventions

    This book offers a contemporary intervention in the field of feminism/international relations. Partly inspired by Surrealism, the book is written in a series of vignettes and draws on a variety of approaches inviting readers in to inhabit the text. It is a politically engaged book, though one which...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
22. No Place Like Home

    Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment

    By David Staples

    Series: New Approaches in Sociology

    No Place Like Home examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. Far from an isolated or contingent situation, home-based work constitutes today an enormous arena of 'invisible'...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
23. Women as Political Leaders

    Studies in Gender and Governing

    Edited by Michael A. Genovese, Janie S. Steckenrider

    Series: LEADERSHIP: Research and Practice

    Over the past several years, the fields of Leadership Studies and of Women's Studies have grown tremendously. This book, which is a series of case studies of women who have headed governments across the globe, will discuss the conditions and situations under which women rose to power and give...

    Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
24. Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia

    By Liubov Denisova

    Edited by Irina Mukhina

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap in the literature on rural studies and gender studies of the twentieth century Russia, it is the first to take the story into the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
25. Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping

    No Time for Mother

    By Elizabeth Nathanson

    Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

    In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women’s everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture from the 1990s through the present reveals two extremes: narratives about women who cannot...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
26. Novelist Tagore

    Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts

    By Radha Chakravarty

    Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a poet-philosopher and educationist, but his novels remain a relatively underexplored aspect of his oeuvre. Focusing on gender and modernity as key features of his fiction, this book charts Tagore's evolution as a novelist from self-conscious psychologizing...

    Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge India
27. Lesbian Images in International Popular Culture

    Edited by Sara E. Cooper

    Lesbian images are everywhere these days–cable television, film, popular magazines, advertising, Internet and the news–creating desire in men and women alike, selling commercial products and services, and stirring up controversy on many levels. But do these images truly represent the diverse...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
28. Feminist Theory Reader

    Local and Global Perspectives, 3rd Edition

    Edited by Carole Mccann, Seung-kyung Kim

    The third edition of the Feminist Theory Reader anthologizes the important classical and contemporary works of feminist theory within a multiracial transnational framework. This edition includes 16 new essays; the editors have organized the readings into four sections, which challenge the...

    Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
29. Gender and the European Labour Market

    Edited by Francesca Bettio, Janneke Plantenga, Mark Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in the European Economy

    The book presents state of the art research on women’s current position in European labour markets. It combines analysis of the latest trends in employment, occupational segregation, working time, unpaid work, social provisions (especially care provisions) and the impact of the financial crisis,...

    Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
30. The Transgender Studies Reader 1&2 BUNDLE

    Edited by Susan Stryker, Aren Z. Aizura

    Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a dynamic field of interdisciplinary scholarship. First collected in Routledge's own The Transgender Studies Reader in 2006, the field has moved on, rapidly expanding in many directions. The Transgender Studies Reader 2 gathers these...

    Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge