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31. Gender, Agency and War

    The Maternalized Body in US Foreign Policy

    By Tina Managhan

    Series: War, Politics and Experience

    This book traces practices of militarization and resistance that have emerged under the sign of motherhood in US Foreign Policy. Gender, Agency and War examines this discourse against the background of three key moments of American foreign policy formation: the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s,...

    Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
32. Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads

    Intersectional Women’s Studies for Transracial Alliance

    Edited by Kim Marie Vaz, Gary L. Lemons

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

    Women’s studies programs and departments face ongoing fall-out from an economic crisis in higher education. Taking the form of budget-cuts, reduction of faculty lines and other resource allocations, for some programs and departments it has meant at best, a loss of disciplinary autonomy through...

    Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
33. Gender, Race and Religion

    Intersections and Challenges

    Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    Gender, Race and Religion brings together a selection of original papers published in Ethnic and Racial Studies that address the intersections between gender relations, race and religion in our contemporary environment. Chapters address both theoretical and empirical aspects of this phenomenon, and...

    Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
34. Bisexuality and Queer Theory

    Intersections, Connections and Challenges

    Edited by Jonathan Alexander, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

    According to David Halperin, sexuality in our time is typified by a "crisis in contemporary sexual definition". What is sexuality? What does it mean to have a sexual identity or orientation? What is the relationship between sexuality as a knowledge construct, on one hand, and the often messy flows...

    Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
35. Contesting the Politics of Genocidal Rape

    Affirming the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body

    By Debra B. Bergoffen

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

    Rape, traditionally a spoil of war, became a weapon of war in the ethnic cleansing campaign in Bosnia. The ICTY Kunarac court responded by transforming wartime rape from an ignored crime into a crime against humanity. In its judgment, the court argued that the rapists violated the Muslim women’s...

    Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
36. Theorizing Sexual Violence

    Edited by Renée J. Heberle, Victoria Grace

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

    Taking sexual violence in the form of rape and hetero-psychological/physical abuse, trafficking, and harassment as a point of departure, the authors of this volume explore questions about the relationship between sex, sexuality and violence in order to better understand the terms on which women's...

    Published October 10th 2011 by Routledge
37. Political Women

    The Women's Movement, Political Institutions, the Battle for Women's Suffrage and the ERA

    By Alana Jeydel

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

    Under what conditions are political elites responsive to social movements, and when do social movements gain access to political elites? This book explores this question with regard to the women's movement in the US, asking under what conditions are Congress and the presidency responsive to the...

    Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
38. Queer Political Performance and Protest

    By Benjamin Shepard

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention protests in August 2004, and the massive...

    Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge
39. Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic

    Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs

    By Daniel McNeil

    Series: Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora

    This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements,...

    Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
40. The Cultural Politics of Female Sexuality in South Africa

    By Henriette Gunkel

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

    Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations and cultural authenticity into the focus of the nation state’s politics. This book is a fascinating reflection on the effects of these...

    Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge