Books in the Routledge Research in Gender and Society series

Probes the effects of global and local forces in reshaping notions of gender, race, class, identity, human rights, and community across Africa and its Diaspora. This book offers a multi-national perspective on the intricacies of life in a globalized era.

This text provides a picture of the state of the art of economics of the family as it relates to economic theory and economic modelling, examining the developments from common preference family models to the more recent co-operative or non co-operative bargaining models.

Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations into the nation's politics. This book is a reflection on the effects of these discourses on non-normative modes of sexuality and on the country more generally.

Explores how the All India Democratic Women's Association (a socialist women's organization based in India) has flourished in neoliberalism's shadow.

Offers accounts of the diversity of living transgender. This book is suitable for scholars and students in sociology and gender and sexuality studies.

Drawing on qualitative studies of athletes and fraternity members, this book describes the world of masculinities among men in both the US and England. It is of interest to students and faculty members within Sociology, Gender Studies, and Sport Studies.

Gathers contributions from academics, activists, and practitioners to explore the intricacies of non-monogamous relationships. This title examines the history and cultural basis of non-monogamy, psychological understandings of relationship patterns, language and emotion, mono-normativity and issues of race, class, disability, sexuality and gender.

This edited collection explores how the gender identity of men from non-English-speaking backgrounds is influenced by the experiences of migration and settlement in an English-speaking culture, across various cultural spheres such as work, leisure, family life and religion.

Examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women's or 'feminine' subjectivity and selfhood. This title demonstrates how the hierarchical dichotomy of male active versus female passive sexuality - which obscures the true nature of rape - is embedded in the dominant western symbolic frame.

Focusing on gender and sexuality studies, this collection documents how people's most private decisions and practices are intertwined with public institutions and state policies.

Examining sexual violence, this title takes up questions about the relationship between sex, sexuality and violence to better understand the terms on which women's sexual suffering is perpetuated, thereby undermining their capacity for personhood and autonomy.

Probes the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality. This book puts forward an argument that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth century, and traces the destruction of Medieval discourses on female homosexuality.

Contains critiques on the notion of empowerment of women by seventeen international scholars. This volume considers opportunities for women in the context of globalization, resurgent nationalism and politicized religion, cultures of masculinity, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa.

Examines links between gender, race and national identity in the US, UK, Australia and Japan. This book takes an approach to national identity by analyzing a range of ephemeral and pop cultural texts, from Olympic opening ceremonies, to television advertisements, letters to the editor, broadsheet war coverage, travel brochures, and museums.

Traditionally child sexual abuse has been perceived as a male crime, however, research suggests that a minority of offenders are female. While recognizing the importance of male perpetrators, this book highlights the problems inherent in protecting children. It offers a critical understanding of the notions of harm and the rights of the child.

A social and cultural history of girls in the German youth movements in the pre-Nazi era.

This volume uses empirical studies of gender differences in family responsibilities and time allocation to demonstrate how such differences affect women's wages and analyses pay structures and wage mobility throughout Europe.

This study provides an analysis of comparative gender differences in the EU. It addresses a range of issues from employment and households to culture, sexuality, male violence, the state, migration and women's movements.

When so many call for inclusion of women and a gender perspective in food security, why is the status of women and girls in terms of food security not improving, and to what extent is this failure contributing to overall hunger and malnutrition?

This book foregrounds the experiences of intergenerational cross-cultural women scholars matriculating in universities across the U.S. and abroad, who have traversed historical barriers and systemic boundaries, yet created discursive spaces in the academy to interrogate issues of inequities and marginalization. Empirical research, auto-ethnographies, and critical analyses are used to advance an understanding of how these women have transcended barriers.

As developments in the European Union and elsewhere make the re-examination of citizenship a pressing issue, this book reflects on the 'masculine' character of contemporary democracy and the measures taken in the EU to combat it.

With a focus on gender and sexuality studies, this edited collection documents how people's most private decisions and practices are intertwined with public institutions and state policies.

"This book explores the 'material-discursive entanglement' of how we both make the world with our words and how the materiality of the world forces us to put words on it. It uses the metaphor of refraction to show how material things and technologies can be used to refract discourses and articulate the concerns and voices producing them"--

Raising to the challenge of how to grasp such forms of inequalities that are mediated affectively, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships focuses on subtle inequalities that are shaped in everyday affective encounters. It also seeks to bridge a gap between affect theory and empirical social research by providing ideas and inspiration of how to work with affect in research practice.

The Romani Women's Movement highlights the role that Romani women's politics plays in shaping equality related discourses, policies, and movements in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

This book explores the dynamic interplay between cross-national and cross-cultural patterns of female migration, integration and social change, by focusing on the specific case of Belgium. It provides insight into the dynamic interplay between gender and migration, and especially contributes to the knowledge of how migration changes gender relations in Belgium, as well as in the regions of origin. To this end, an analytical model for conducting gender-sensitive migration research is developed out of an initial theory-driven conceptual model. The researchers reveal similarities and differences across national backgrounds, disclosing the underlying, more "universal" gender dynamics.

Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence examines how gender and other social identities and inequalities shape experiences of, and responses to, violence in intimate relationships.