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41. Politics of Difference in Taiwan

    Edited by T.W. Ngo, Hong-zen Wang

    Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

    Taiwan has been hailed as a successful case of democratization. Compared with many other nations, the transition from authoritarian rule occurred in a rather orderly fashion. Group consciousness emerged as a reaction to the decades-long suppression of cultural diversity under martial law as...

    Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
42. 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
43. The Achilles Heel Reader (Routledge Revivals)

    Men, Sexual Politics and Socialism

    Edited by Victor Seidler

    First published in 1991, The Achilles Heel Reader brings together key articles from Achilles Heel, the path-breaking and influential magazine of men's sexual politics. It also includes an important introduction by the editor, setting the magazine in its intellectual and historical context. Achilles...

    Published January 6th 2011 by Routledge
44. Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

    By Amy Lind

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people’s sexual lives,...

    Published May 16th 2010 by Routledge
45. Gender Matters in Global Politics

    A Feminist Introduction to International Relations

    Edited by Laura J Shepherd

    Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying feminism & international relations, gender and global politics and similar courses. It provides students with an accessible but in-depth account of the most significant theories, methodologies,...

    Published December 13th 2009 by Routledge
46. Engendering the State

    The International Diffusion of Women's Human Rights

    By Lynn Savery

    Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

    Why have states in general been slower to incorporate the international diffusion of women’s human rights norms domestically than other human rights norms and why has the diffusion of these norms varied so greatly between states? Why are some states more responsive and exert more effort than...

    Published November 10th 2009 by Routledge
47. Resisting Citizenship

    Feminist Essays on Politics, Community, and Democracy

    By Martha A. Ackelsberg

    Political participation in America—supposedly the world’s strongest democracy—is startlingly low, and many of the civil rights and economic equity initiatives that were instituted in the 1960s and '70s have been abandoned, as significant proportions of the populace seem to believe that the civil...

    Published October 29th 2009 by Routledge
48. Gendered Peace

    Women's Struggles for Post-War Justice and Reconciliation

    Edited by Donna Pankhurst

    Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

    This volume contributes to the growing literature on women, conflict and peacebuilding by focusing on the moments after a peace accord, or some other official ending of a conflict, often denoted as ‘post-conflict’ or ‘post-war’. Such moments often herald great hope for holding to account those who...

    Published September 28th 2009 by Routledge
49. Global Perspectives on Gender Equality

    Reversing the Gaze

    Edited by Naila Kabeer, Agneta Stark, Edda Magnus

    Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

    The Nordic countries have long been seen as pioneers in promoting gender equality. The book brings together scholars from the global South and post-socialist economies to reflect on Nordic approaches to gender equality. The contributors to the book seek to explore from a comparative perspective the...

    Published September 23rd 2009 by Routledge
50. Sex and Sexuality in China

    Edited by Elaine Jeffreys

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    Elaine Jeffreys explores the issues of sex and sexuality in a non-Western context by examining debates surrounding the emergence of new sexual behaviours, and the appropriate nature of their regulation, in the People's Republic of China. Commissioned from Western and mainland Chinese scholars of...

    Published May 20th 2009 by Routledge