Gender Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Imagining Masculinities

   Spatial and Temporal Representation and Visual Culture

   By Katarzyna Kosmala

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   This book examines the intersections between debates in critical studies of men and masculinities and debates on visual representation, investigating representations of men and masculinities in contemporary culture and examples of visual art that deconstruct those representations. It attends to...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. 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 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Feminist Criminology

   By Claire Renzetti

   Series: Key Ideas in Criminology

   Feminist criminology grew out of the Women’s Movement of the 1970s in response to the neglect of women by, and the male dominance of, mainstream criminology. Examining feminist theoretical perspectives and empirical research in criminology, this key book investigates their impact on the discipline,...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. Gender and Neoliberalism in India

   The All India Democratic Women’s Association and Globalization Politics

   By Elisabeth Armstrong

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   This book explores how one socialist women’s organization based in India has flourished in neoliberalism’s shadow. From 1991 to the present, the doctrine of liberalization has guided Indian politics and economic policy. These neoliberal measures have vastly reduced poverty alleviation schemes,...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Death of Feminism?

   Is Popular & Commercial Culture Undermining Women's Rights?

   Edited by Penny Griffin

   Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

   This volume seeks to offer a critical, innovative and empirically driven interrogation of the international political economy of cultures of production and consumption in Western market societies, investigating the reproduction of Western popular and commercial culture (including its products and...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
7. Youth Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging

   Edited by Sharlene Swartz, Madeleine Arnot

   Around the world today, young people are being called upon to develop civic competence and carry the burden of forging a political future in the midst of impoverishment, exclusion and inequality. In societies that have experienced civil war, military occupation, mass immigration of displaced people...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Defending Democracy and Securing Diversity

   Edited by Christian Leuprecht

   Old sergeants say, "we're here to defend democracy, not to practice it!" But are they right? The special mandate with which defence and security organizations are tasked imposes unique constraints with respect to the accommodation of diversity which differs from those faced by any other public or...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. Consuming Families

    Buying, Making, Producing Family Life in the 21st Century

    By Jo Lindsay, JaneMaree Maher

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are altering how family life is practised and produced, and addressing key social issues – childhood obesity, alchohol and drug addiction, social...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge