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Routledge Research in Gender and Society


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The social sciences continue to be transformed and enriched by analysis which takes gender, and the ways in which gender and society interact, to be of vital, defining importance. This series is new and broadly based, and will publish high-level contributions from across the disciplines.

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Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction Disappearing Heteronormativity?

Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction: Disappearing Heteronormativity?

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Paul Thompson
June 28, 2024

This book looks specifically and in depth, for the first time, at masculinity in cheap, lesbian-themed paperbacks of the two decades after WW2. It challenges established critical assumptions about the readership, and sets the masculinity imagined in these novels against the “masculinity crisis” of ...

Asexualities Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition

Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By KJ Cerankowski, Megan Milks
June 03, 2024

As one of the first book-length collections of critical essays on the topic of asexuality, Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives became a foundational text in the burgeoning field of asexuality studies. This revised and expanded ten-year anniversary edition both celebrates the book’s impact...

Re-Thinking Men Heroes, Villains and Victims

Re-Thinking Men: Heroes, Villains and Victims

2nd Edition

Forthcoming

By Anthony Synnott
May 31, 2024

Much writing on men in the field of gender studies tends to focus unduly, almost exclusively, on portraying men as villains and women as victims in a moral bi-polar paradigm. Re-Thinking Men reverses the proclivity which ignores not only the positive contributions of men to society, but also the ...

A Community of Practice Approach to Improving Gender Equality in Research

A Community of Practice Approach to Improving Gender Equality in Research

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Rachel Palmén, Jörg Müller
May 27, 2024

Bringing together the latest research among various communities of practice (disciplinary and place based as well as thematically organised), this volume reflects upon the knowledge, experience and practice gained through taking a unique community of practice approach to fostering gender equality ...

Queering Desire Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity

Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Róisín Ryan-Flood, Amy Tooth Murphy
April 05, 2024

Queering Desire explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women’s, and non-binary people’s experiences of identity and desire. Taking an intersectional feminist and trans-inclusive approach, and incorporating new and established ...

Equality Dancesport Gender and Sexual Identities Matter

Equality Dancesport: Gender and Sexual Identities Matter

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Yen Nee Wong
April 02, 2024

Equality Dancesport uses a queer feminist lens to examine the materialisation of gender and sexuality through moving and dancing bodies, by taking readers through the initiation journey of becoming an equality dancesport competitor. A recent shift in the media representation of ballroom dancing on ...

Gender and Firearms My Body, My Choice, My Gun

Gender and Firearms: My Body, My Choice, My Gun

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Peter Squires
April 01, 2024

Private gun ownership for self-defense remains a major personal and public issue in the United States, driven by concerns about crime, vulnerability and a range of ‘ideological’ factors, including race and gender. As media attention centres upon the extent to which women are taking up firearms, ...

What is Sexualized Violence? Intersectional Readings

What is Sexualized Violence?: Intersectional Readings

1st Edition

By Jana Schäfer
February 29, 2024

What is Sexualized Violence? Intersectional Readings uses an intersectional, queer, and subject-oriented approach to examine how societies constitute subjects as abilized and vulnerabilized with respect to sexualized violence. Contributing to our thinking about the dynamic relationship between ...

Gender and the Politics of Disaster Recovery Dealing with the Aftermath

Gender and the Politics of Disaster Recovery: Dealing with the Aftermath

1st Edition

Edited By Sajal Roy
January 29, 2024

Drawing a transdisciplinary perspective, this book investigates the ways in which gender intersect with rebuilding and post-disaster recovery process. It shows how climate-induced disasters as well as the recent COVID-19 pandemic have impacted human lives and livelihoods across various global ...

Inequalities and the Paradigm of Excellence in Academia

Inequalities and the Paradigm of Excellence in Academia

1st Edition

Edited By Fiona Jenkins, Barbara Hoenig, Susanne Maria Weber, Andrea Wolffram
January 29, 2024

This volume examines the criteria of excellence producing inequalities of gender in the daily working environment and evaluation of academics. Policymakers have increasingly placed emphasis on gender equality as part of a strategy for achieving research excellence, and efforts to reduce gender bias...

Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics An Arendtian Approach

Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics: An Arendtian Approach

1st Edition

By Maria Tamboukou
July 14, 2023

This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical approaches to love and agonistic politics. Arend’s interlocutors are four revolutionary women in the long durée of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in ...

Gender-Based Violence in Mexico Narratives, the State and Emancipations

Gender-Based Violence in Mexico: Narratives, the State and Emancipations

1st Edition

Edited By Ana Luisa Sánchez Hernández, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, Francisco Díaz Estrada
July 14, 2023

This book examines the roots of systemic aggression against women in contemporary Mexico, and the connection between social practices and the institutional permissiveness of the Mexican State with regard to gendered violence. Since the democratic transition at the end of the 1990s, Mexico has ...

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