Gender Studies Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. The Law on the Use of Force

   A Feminist Analysis

   By Gina Heathcote

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   The book presents the international laws on the use of force whilst demonstrating the unique insight a feminist analysis offers this central area of international law. The book highlights key conceptual barriers to the enhanced application of the law of the use of force, and develops international...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Coming of Age

   Women's Colleges in the Philippines During the Post-Marcos Era

   By Francesca Purcell

   In view of the increasing number of Third World countries considering the establishment of women's colleges to meet the demand for the higher education of women, presenting a case study of two key women's colleges in the Philippines. Within the context of global, national and local changes since...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960

   By Gloria Chuku

   Series: African Studies

   This study analyzes the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society, with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro....

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain

   By Ellen Jordan

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   In the first half of the nineteenth century the main employments open to young women in Britain were in teaching, dressmaking, textile manufacture and domestic service. After 1850, however, young women began to enter previously all-male areas like medicine, pharmacy, librarianship, the civil...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Women, Religion and Culture in Iran

   By Sarah Ansari, Vanessa Martin

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   Investigates how women, religion and culture have interacted in the context of 19th and 20th century Iran, covering topics as seemingly diverse as the social and cultural history of Persian cuisine, the work and attitudes of 19th century Christian missionaries, the impact of growing female literacy...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia

   By Liubov Denisova

   Edited by Irina Mukhina

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap in the literature on rural studies and gender studies of the twentieth century Russia, it is the first to take the story into the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony

   The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan

   By Kaeko Chiba

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chado) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, the book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chado system at grass roots level. Making critical use of Bourdieu’s idea...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
8. Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Edited by Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Peggy Teo, Shirlena Huang

   Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

   Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women's lives are being transformed. This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change in the...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Body in Postwar Japanese Fiction

   By Douglas Slaymaker

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Literature and Society

   This book explores one of the crucial themes in postwar Japanese fiction. Through an examination of the work of a number of prominent twentieth century Japanese writers, the book analyses the meaning of the body in postwar Japanese discourse, the gender constructions of the imagery of the body and...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Globalisation and Women in the Japanese Workforce

    By Beverley Bishop

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    Globalisation and Women in the Japanese Workforce contributes to the debate about the impact of globalisation upon women. It examines the effect of restructuring upon women's employment in Japan and describes the actions women are taking individually and collectively to campaign for change in their...

    Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge