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31. India Migration Report 2013

    Social Costs of Migration

    Edited by S. Irudaya Rajan

    This volume is an empirical assessment of an often-neglected space in migration research — social, psychological and human costs for both migrants and the families they leave behind — based on qualitative and quantitative research findings. Globally, the focus of migration research has consisted of...

    Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge India
32. The Transgender Studies Reader 2

    Edited by Susan Stryker, Aren Z. Aizura

    Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a vibrant field of interdisciplinary scholarship. In 2006, Routledge’s The Transgender Studies Reader brought together the first definitive collection of the field. Since its publication, the field has seen an explosion of new work that...

    Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
33. Women, Policing, and Male Violence (Routledge Revivals)

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Jalna Hanmer, Jill Radford, Elizabeth Stanko

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1989, this book focuses on the policing of male violence against women. It is an issue that has been criticised substantially in the past, and the book shows how even police themselves have sometimes admitted that women have received inadequate treatment. The book includes...

    Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
34. International Human Rights Law and Domestic Violence

    The Effectiveness of International Human Rights Law

    By Ronagh J.A. McQuigg

    Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

    This innovative book examines the effectiveness of international human rights law, through the case study of domestic violence. Domestic violence is an issue that affects vast numbers of women throughout all nations of the world, but as it takes place between private individuals it does not come...

    Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
35. Women's Studies: The Basics

    By Bonnie G. Smith

    Series: The Basics

    Women’s Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction into the ever expanding and increasingly relevant field of studies focused on women. Tracing the history of the discipline from its origins, this text sets out the main agendas of women’s studies and feminism, exploring the global...

    Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
36. Men Speak Out

    Views on Gender, Sex, and Power, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Shira Tarrant

    Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power, Second Edition highlights new essays on pornography, pop culture, queer identity, Muslim masculinity, and the war on women. With personal candor and political insight, this collection of diverse authors explores sex work, digital activism,...

    Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
37. Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony

    The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan

    By Kaeko Chiba

    Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

    This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chado) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, the book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chado system at grass roots level. Making critical use of Bourdieu’s idea...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
38. Women in Movement (Routledge Revivals)

    Feminism and Social Action

    By Sheila Rowbotham

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1992, this book is an historical introduction to a wide range of women’s movements from the late eighteenth-century to the date of its publication. It describes economic, social and political ideas which have inspired women to organize, not only in Europe and North America, but...

    Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
39. Children and Empire

    Edited by Cheryl M. Cassidy, Andrea Kaston Tange

    Series: History of Feminism

    Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse The History of Feminism series makes key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of women’s and gender studies, women’s history, and women’s writing, as well as those working in allied and related fields....

    Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
40. Feminist Strategies in International Governance

    Edited by Gülay Caglar, Elisabeth Prügl, Susanne Zwingel

    Series: Global Institutions

    The struggle for women’s rights and to overcome gender oppression has long engaged the efforts of inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations. Feminist Strategies in International Governance provides a new introduction to the contemporary forms of this struggle. It brings together the...

    Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge