Women’s and Gender Studies: Gender Studies - Soc Sci

Edited by Ellen Toronto, Joann Ponder, Kristin Davisson, Maurine Kelber Kelly

Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women’s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Although females have made progress in many areas, their status within the human community has remained unstable and subject to societal whim. A Womb of Her…

Paperback – 2017-02-22 
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Edited by Cordelia Beattie

The study of medieval women has flourished over the last forty years or so, challenging the idea of a universality of experience among women. This new collection of major works from Routledge addresses the different ways in which medieval women have been studied by looking at religious and…

Hardback – 2017-02-21 
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Critical Concepts in Women's History

Edited by Wayne R. Dynes

First published in 1990, The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality brings together a collection of outstanding articles that were, at the time of this book’s original publication, classic, pioneering, and recent. Together, the two volumes provide scholarship on male and female homosexuality and bisexuality…

Paperback – 2017-02-20 
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Routledge Revivals: Encyclopedia of Homosexuality

Edited by Kirstie Coxon, Mandie Scamell, Andy Alaszewski

Over the last hundred years, pregnancy and childbirth has become increasingly safe – yet it is still a site of risk, and a contested ground on which health professionals and pregnant women both face high costs of error. In this context, all those involved in managing pregnancy and birth are…

Hardback – 2017-02-12 
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By Eike Marten

Taking recent German debates of diversity terminology as a case example for scrutinizing enactments of genealogy that assume a linear image of progressive generation, this book engages with performative effects of genealogical stories in academic texts that negotiate conceptual belonging. While…

Hardback – 2017-02-03 
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Routledge Research in Gender and Society

Edited by Lutz Oette, Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker

Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting in serious human rights and humanitarian law violations. Several efforts, such as the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement and transitional justice initiatives have recognised that the failure to…

Hardback – 2017-02-01 
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Routledge Research in Constitutional Law

By Monica Costa

A growing number of governments have made commitments to achieving gender equality and women's rights, with many using gender responsive budgeting (GRB) to allocate resources for the delivery of economic policy and governance that equally benefits men and women. At a time when GRB is…

Hardback – 2017-02-01 
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Routledge ISS Gender, Sexuality and Development Studies

Edited by Sherilyn MacGregor

Variously labelled ecofeminism, feminist environmentalism and eco-gender studies, the common denominator of this body of scholarship is the analysis of the links between gender and the environment. Emerging from a critical position on the margins of such mainstream disciplines as philosophy,…

Hardback – 2017-01-31 
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Anthony Elliott

The Handbook of Identity Studies offers a remarkably clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century. The first edition of this work set new standards for reference works, such was the…

Hardback – 2017-01-31 
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Jane Freedman, Zeynep Kivilcim, Nurcan Özgür Baklacıoğlu

The refugee crisis that began in 2015 has seen thousands of refugees attempting to reach Europe, principally from Syria. The dangers and difficulties of this journey have been highlighted in the media, as have the political disagreements within Europe over the way to deal with the problem. However,…

Hardback – 2017-01-30 
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Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration

Edited by Yvonne Galligan

The multi-layered political system of the European Union offers a unique environment for the study of comparative democracy. Its policies seek to give effect to an agreed range of values, including that of gender equality. 　 This book explores gender equality and democratic politics in Europe. It…

Paperback – 2017-01-25 
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Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe

By Alexis Leanna Henshaw

Why Women Rebel presents a global analysis of the extent to which women are engaged in armed, organized rebellions, and why they choose to join such rebellions. Henshaw has collected and analyzed data on women’s participation in over 70 post-Cold War rebel groups and provides a theoretical analysis…

Hardback – 2017-01-21 
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Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics