Forthcoming Women Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Women and Therapy in the Last Third of Life

   The Long View

   Edited by Valory Mitchell

   What is distinct about the last third of life, about women, that makes psychotherapy different? In this diverse collection, the psychological meanings and challenges of the last third of life are explored, as the capacity of the psyche expands, sense of time changes, and some questions take on new...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Women and Heroin Addiction in China's Changing Society

   By Huan Gao

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   Accompanying China’s economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, illicit drug use emerged in the late 1980s, and gradually developed into a serious social problem. Heroin was the dominant illicit drug consumed in the new drug epidemic, and the number of female heroin users has increased rapidly...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Safe Motherhood in a Globalized World

   Edited by Barbara Wejnert, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, Nirupama Prakash

   This book provides cutting edge information on safe motherhood in a global context. The chapters focus on research, program development and implementation, and policy dealing with various aspects of pregnancy, labor and delivery. Safe motherhood is a critical issue since healthy, safe motherhood is...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Gender Equality in Public Services

   Chasing the Dream

   By Hazel Conley, Margaret Page

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   Equality of opportunity is a phrase that is embedded in the language of most organizations, even if it is not always identifiable in their practices. Since the civil rights movement in the US, and anti-discrimination legislation of the 1970s in the UK, jolted organizations on both sides of the...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Social Inequality in Japan

   By Sawako Shirahase

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   Japan is the first Asian country to become a mature industrial society. Throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, Japan was viewed as an all-middle-class society, however, more recently, the issues of poverty and inequality have been actively discussed in Japan, particularly since the late 1990s. This...

   To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Contradictions of Love

   Towards a feminist-realist ontology of sociosexuality

   By Lena Gunnarson

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   The Contradictions of Love: Towards a feminist-realist ontology ofsociosexuality offers a robust and multifaceted theoretical account of how, incontemporary western societies, women continue to be subordinated to men throughsexual love. The book defends and elaborates Anna G. Jónasdóttir’s thesis...

   To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
7. International Perspectives on Support for Trafficked Women

   Developing a Model for Service Provision

   By Delia Rambaldini-Gooding

   Series: Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy

   Human trafficking for the purpose of prostitution and sexual exploitation has received a great deal of attention at national and international policy level. However, most of the focus has been on the criminal aspects of human trafficking and crime prevention, with little more than rhetoric around...

   To Be Published April 14th 2014 by Routledge