Books in the Routledge Research in Gender and Society series

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.

The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism.

Queer lives remain at the margins of most academic inquiry into domestic violence. This edited volume seeks to change this discourse by bringing together the most innovative research about intimate partner violence that is specific to the lives of lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender/Two-Spirit and queer people (LGBTQ).

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.

Through an examination of case studies in twenty countries, this volume probes the meanings of women¿s empowerment in the context of local conflicts around power, culture and violence, and initiatives from national and global levels.

This volume gathers contributions from academics, activists, and practitioners to explore the intricacies of non-monogamous relationships. Featuring both empirical and theoretical pieces, contributors examine 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 volume represents the present state of the art in theoretical debate in welfare state scholarship, drawing on research from western Europe, North America and Japan.

Explores contemporary social theory and developments in the study of sexuality through the analysis of law and its practices. Each chapter explores the power of discourse in law in relation to homosexualities, examining how homosexuals resist and disrupt these legal discourses.

This volume represents the present state of the art in theoretical debate in welfare state scholarship, drawing on research from western Europe, North America and Japan.

In the current economic climate, where many colleges and universities across the US find themselves facing budget crises and cutbacks for historically marginalized academic disciplines such as women¿s studies, a politics of solidarity is needed, perhaps more than ever. In the spirit of previous feminist bridge-work, the editors and contributors of Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads offer pragmatic case studies in women¿s studies alliance across the "color line" in the face of institutional crisis.

Queer lives remain at the margins of most academic inquiry into domestic violence. This title seeks to change this discourse by bringing together the research about intimate partner violence that is specific to the lives of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/Two-Spirit and queer people (LGBTQ).

David Neumarks work on gender and labor markets appears for the first time in one book here with new introductory material.

Throughout history, women have participated in defending the welfare of their family, community, class, race or ethnic group. This volume presents original research on women's activism in Asia, Europe, Australia and Latin America. It explores how women have advanced social change and their influence on, and response to, transformations in society.

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.