Sociology: Gender Studies

Edited by Jeanine M. Canty

This book is an edited collection of essays by fifteen multicultural women (including a few Anglo women) who are doing work that crosses the boundaries of ecological and social healing. The women are prominent academics, writers and leaders spanning Native American, Indigenous, Asian, African,…

Paperback – 2016-08-10 
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Edited by Karen Ross, Claudia Padovani

This edited collection draws on and expands the findings from a pan-European research project undertaken during 2012-13 which was funded by the European Institute for Gender Equality and aimed to explore three key issues in relation to gender and media: women’s inclusion in decision-making…

Hardback – 2016-08-08 
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Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education

By Jorie Lagerwey

This book analyzes the intersections of celebrity, self-branding, and "mommy" culture. It examines how images of celebrity moms playing versions of themselves on reality television, social media, gossip sites, and self-branded retail outlets negotiate the complex demands of postfeminism and the…

Hardback – 2016-08-08 
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Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

By Hannele Harjunen

In recent decades the rise of the so-called "global obesity epidemic" has led to fatness and fat bodies being debated incessantly in popular, professional, and academic arenas. Fatness and fat bodies are shamed and demonized, and the public monitoring, surveillance and outright policing by the…

Hardback – 2016-08-08 
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Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Gender, Bodies and Transformation

By Manoucheka Celeste

With the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences, diverse black experiences, and the intersection of black and immigrant identities. Citizenship as it is…

Hardback – 2016-08-03 
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Routledge Transformations in Race and Media

By Dongchao Min

Research has shown that feminist theory has flowed far more easily from North to South and from West to East, whist travel in other directions has proved almost non-existent. While the hegemony of US feminist theory has been challenged in Europe, for example, there remain many ’invisible’…

Hardback – 2016-08-03 
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The Feminist Imagination - Europe and Beyond

Edited by Laura Sjoberg

The global political arena is (again) in a time of crisis. Different sources pay attention to different crises: the Global Financial Crisis, the Debt Crisis, the Crisis of ISIL/Daesh in Iraq and Syria, the Crisis of Israel and Palestine, and the Iran Nuclear Crisis have gotten significant attention…

Hardback – 2016-08-03 
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Edited by Philip Darby

This book explores a range of connections between India and Australia that fall outside the formal diplomacy of the two states. It examines how race, class and gender shape conceptions of the two nations, whose voices are heard and whose are not, and the politics that emerge from sport, culture,…

Hardback – 2016-08-02 
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By Rachela Colosi

Drawing on original ethnographic research, this book looks at the behaviour and attitudes of lap dancing club customers. Little has been said about customers from a UK perspective and Colosi contracts her findings with the US based literature; the author follows her previous book, Dirty Dancing (…

Hardback – 2016-08-01 
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Routledge Advances in Ethnography

Edited by Carole R. McCann, Seung-kyung Kim

The fourth edition of the Feminist Theory Reader continues to challenge readers to rethink the complex meanings of difference outside of contemporary Western feminist contexts. This new edition contains a new subsection on intersectionality. New readings turn readers’ attention to current debates…

Paperback – 2016-08-01 
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By Stuart C. Aitken

Change is inevitable, we are told. A job is lost, a couple falls in love, children leave home, an addict joins Narcotics Anonymous, two nations go to war, a family member's health deteriorates, a baby is born, a universal health care bill is voted into law. Life comprises events over which we…

Paperback – 2016-07-31 
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By Vicki S. Helgeson

Noted for its fair and equal coverage of men and women, this book reviews the research and issues surrounding gender from multiple perspectives including psychology, sociology, anthropology, and public health, with an emphasis on the interaction between biological and social theories. The…

Paperback – 2016-07-29 
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