Gender studies, gender groups Books

In Military Trade, Steven Zeeland, author of Sailors and Sexual Identity, The Masculine Marine, and Barrack Buddies and Soldier Lovers, brings together an edgy, enlightening, and richly entertaining collection of voices with a passion for servicemen.

In our youth-oriented, patriarchal society, aging and older women often find themselves either ignored, pitied, or feared. Women and Aging is a valuable guide to help women break through the negative stereotypes of old age and find personal fulfillment...

Discover a heartwarming and courageous story in Jeanie Out of the Bottle, an inspiring memoir from a 94-year-old woman reflecting on her formative years with Victorian-era grandparents and a war-torn London. This deeply personal narrative reveals truths...

Though women now have professional opportunities beyond what previous generations ever imagined, the church's vision for women's work has not grown with us. Joanna Meyer addresses this gap in women's discipleship, providing a theological framework for...

Offering an intimate account of intergenerational grief, Miller Oberman's new collection of poetry, Impossible Things, explores his experiences as both a transgender child and father. Oberman weaves in passages from his own deceased father's unpublished...

Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix's most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching. Academic conferences now routinely feature panels...

Drawing on the 'collective biography' of leading feminist scholars from around the world and current evidence relating to gender equality in education, this book employs methods including biographies, life histories, and narratives to show how the...

Tracing the literary relationship between British women and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Kathryn Freeman argues that women writers, distinct from their male counterparts, interrogated Orientalist distortions of India through the lens of gender. Her...

<p><strong>This volume brings together a remarkable collection of Virginia Woolf's most insightful and thought-provoking works on literature and the craft of writing. </strong></p><p>From the intricacies of American fiction...

This volume contains a collection of essays and excerpts on the famous American poet and influential woman of history, Emily Dickinson. Highly recommended for students of literature and others with an interest in the life and work of this seminal writer...

Based on the scholarship of a global team of diverse authors, this wide-ranging handbook surveys the history and current status of pro-women thought and activism over millennia. The book traces the complex history of feminism across the globe, presenting...

First Published in 1996. Following the author's previous work, Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century in 1986, an increased interest in feminism, science, and gender issues resulted in this subsequent title. This book will be valuable...

The world is becoming more transnational. This edited collection examines how the immense transnational changes in the contemporary world are being produced by and are affecting different men and masculinities. It seeks to shift debates on men,...

Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive focuses on one of the world's most famous feminists, using previously unexplored archival material to demonstrate the impact of Greer's celebrity feminism. It is an important resource to scholars in...

This book, first published in 1987, is both simple in conception and ambitious in intention. It aims at legitimating the new interdisciplinary field of men's studies as one of the most significant and challenging intellectual and curricular developments...

As LGBTQ claims acquire global relevance, how do sexual politics impact the study of International Relations? This book argues that LGBTQ perspectives are not only an inherent part of world politics but can also influence IR theory-making. LGBTQ politics...

How has globalization worked for women working on the frontlines of neoliberalism on the Mexico-US border? This critical comparison of socially similar women, working either in export production industries or in small-scale commerce and low-level...

The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively, demonstrates the intrinsic interconnectedness of sport, gender and sexuality. It introduces what is, in...

The Political Psychology of Women in U.S. Politics is a comprehensive resource for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in women and politics. Highly original and drawing from the best available research in psychology and political...

First published in 1985, this ground-breaking volume contributes to a largely neglected area of social work research, theory and practice. The collection of essays by internationally known social work educators and practitioners applies feminist...

This book takes a novel approach to the complexities of girls' and women's education in the global South. To unravel the critical issues and processes behind educational advancement, the book narrates the stories of highly educated Tanzanian women. This...

Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance describes the work-life practices of men in the United States. The purpose is to increase gender equality at work for all employees. With a focus on leave policy inequalities, this book argues that men experience a...

This book examines social movements which challenge the neoliberal model of development in India. It offers a new approach on the politics of social movements in contemporary India by discussing the nuanced relationship between development and democracy,...

The Routledge Companion to British Women's Suffrage provides a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art contemporary scholarship on women's suffrage, and is an essential handbook for those studying the history, sociology, and politics of the movement.

Gender and Memory brings together contributions from around the world and from a range of disciplines--history and sociology, socio-linguistics and family therapy, literature--to create a volume that confronts all those concerned with autobiographical...

This book brings together a wide selection of viewpoints on what is happening to relations between the sexes and the sexual division of labor in contemporary society. The contributors look at the ways in which gender relationships are changing, the...

This book addresses questions of sexual consent using deeply personal interviews with twenty Swedish women and men of various ages and sexual orientations. In doing so, it contributes to understandings of sexual consent and sexual grey areas through its...

This book addresses South Asian Muslim women's lived experiences, whilst questioning dominant concepts of agency. Collectively, this volume showcases Muslim's women's diverse identities and desires that may be sidelined in dominant concepts of agency.

First published in 1929, this title was a systematic attempt to review the whole question of women's place in society afresh from the standpoint of "modern science", a searching and impartial discussion of problems felt to be of vital significance at the...

Women in Soviet Russia (1933) is a comprehensive account of the position of women in the Soviet Union. It looks at the history of women's achievements following the 1917 revolution, and of the efforts made by the Communists to establish sex equality...

First published in 1977, this book by women involved in community work and community action explores some of the links between the women's movements and community action at the time, in terms both of the recent developments in women's thinking and of...

Originally published in 1990, Gendered Jobs and Social Change is a systematic exploration of the changing structure of women's paid work in Britain since the Second World War and an invaluable and accessible text for undergraduate students, and teachers...

Voice and Identity draws from the knowledge and expertise of leading figures to explore the evolving nature of voice training in the performing arts. The authors look through both practical and theoretical lenses as they connect voice studies to equity,...

Originally published in 1938, this title tells the story of women as they became an integral part of the Civil Service, work previously reserved for men. As the functions of government widened and the activities of the Civil Service touched the lives of...

During the 1980s a notable development in mainstream social policy in the United Kingdom was the emergence of a feminist critique. Originally published in 1991, Women's Issues in Social Policy was intended as a contribution to the social policy...

Originally published in 1981 Controlling Women critically examines the forms of moral regulation and social control that were exercised over women at the time, arguing that the study of 'deviant' women cannot be separated from the study of how all women...

Originally published in 1985, Women, Social Science and Public Policy looks at what difference the debate over the position of women had made to the way social scientists worked and thought, or to law and social policies at the time. Debate had been...

First published in 1985, this title was one of the first empirical studies in geography to deal with the special problems of women with young children. Even within sociology and psychology there were very few studies in this area at the time. This book...

This text explores how social education impacts gender inequalities in rural Tamil Nadu where women's lives are damaged by discrimination, marginalisation and deprivation. Social education refers to agent-oriented learning experiences focused on power...

The long and bitter struggle for the vote is certainly the most spectacular part of the history of women's emancipation. Originally published in 1966 Rapiers and Battleaxes tells the story in its wider aspect and in terms of the pioneers in the various...

Symbolic interaction explains the world of social behavior and the development of the "self" as a function of social learning. First published in 1987, the readings collected here were designed to link the sociological study of women to the...

In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have children. Originally published in 1985, this book describes the technologies being used and researched in the areas of in vitro...

Women's Studies investigates the world from women-centred perspectives which cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines. In this book, first published in 1983, feminist scholars discuss the assumptions and aims of Women's Studies, its...

The status of women in the creative and cultural industries remains precarious. This comparative analysis provides insights from seven key economies to help understand progress toward gender equality in culture and the arts and the broader cultural...