2012 Feminism and Gender Studies Catalogue

Women, Crime and Criminology (Routledge Revivals)

A Feminist Critique

By Carol Smart

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1977, Women, Crime and Criminology presents a feminist critique of classical and contemporary theories of female criminality. It addresses the issue that criminology literature has, throughout history, been predominantly male-oriented, always treating female criminality as...

Published October 3rd 2012 by Routledge

The Ties That Bind (Routledge Revivals)

Law, Marriage and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Relations

By Carol Smart

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1984, this book made an important and timely contribution to the development of the idea that the law is a major source of women’s oppression. Based on research of the theory and practice of family law, it examines the way in which private law operates to sustain, reproduce and...

Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge

Gender, Class and Education (Routledge Revivals)

By Stephen Walker, Len Barton

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1983, Gender, Class and Education is a collection of papers that formed presentations at the Westhill Sociology of Education Conference in January 1982, and is the fifth such collection to emerge from the annual conference. The conference theme, ‘Race, Class and Gender’, was not...

Published August 31st 2012 by Routledge

Gender, Class and Education (Routledge Revivals)

By Stephen Walker, Len Barton

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1983, Gender, Class and Education is a collection of papers that formed presentations at the Westhill Sociology of Education Conference in January 1982, and is the fifth such collection to emerge from the annual conference. The conference theme, ‘Race, Class and Gender’, was not...

Published August 31st 2012 by Routledge

Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals)

Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860

By Judith Lowder Newton

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. The period set in motion a crisis over the status of middle-class women that culminated in the constructed idea of "women’s proper sphere". This...

Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge

Feminism and Socialism in China (Routledge Revivals)

By Elisabeth Croll

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women’s movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards...

Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge

Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family

By Ben Fine

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1992, Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family is an analysis of the contemporary political interest in the position of women. The author critically assesses much of the literature examining the rapidly changing lives of women and contributes to it by offering an explanation...

Published February 7th 2011 by Routledge

Women and Recession (Routledge Revivals)

Edited by Jill Rubery

Series: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1988, this book compiles a collection of works investigating the impact of recession on women's employment. The authors argue that the most important explanation of differences in women's experience between the countries is the form of labour market regulation and...

Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge

Still Crazy After All These Years (Routledge Revivals)

Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis

By Rachel Bowlby

Series: Routledge Revivals

The starting point for this book, first published in 1992, is a question of rhetoric – as much in the writings of feminism as in other writing about women. How do texts construct possibilities and limits, openings and impasses, which set the terms for the ways in which we think about what a woman...

Published April 19th 2010 by Routledge

Engels Revisited (Routledge Revivals)

Feminist Essays

Edited by Janet Sayers, Mary Evans, Nanneke Redclift

Series: Routledge Revivals

This reissued work, first published in 1987, examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination. Engels still...

Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge

Recreating Sexual Politics (Routledge Revivals)

Men, Feminism and Politics

By Victor Seidler

Series: Routledge Revivals

This thought-provoking book, first published in 1991, examines sexual politics in a world which is being radically changed by the challenges of feminism. Seidler explores how men have responded to feminism, and the contradictory feelings men have towards dominant forms of masculinity. Seidler’s...

Published October 22nd 2009 by Routledge