Women's Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Gender, Ethnicity and Political Agency

   South Asian Women Organizing

   By Shaminder Takhar

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   This book examines how South Asian women’s collective agency is operationalized through civic organizations in the UK. Drawing on black feminist theory and third world feminism, it shows the complexity of political agency and its relationship to identity and subjectivity, and uses empirical...

   Published June 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Governing Women

   Women’s Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform

   Edited by Anne Marie Goetz

   Series: Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development

   Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Lives

   Edited by Janice L. Ristock

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   Queer lives remain at the margins of most academic inquiry into domestic violence. When same-sex violence is considered, it is most commonly as an "added on," without close attention to the specificity and meaning of violence within the lives of lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender/Two-Spirit and...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. International Perspectives on Women and HIV

   Edited by Samuel A MacMaster, Brian E Bride, CINDY DAVIS

   Throughout the world, the threat of HIV/AIDS to women’s health has become the focus of increased concern. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (2004) reports that almost 20 million women and girls are living with HIV globally, accounting for nearly half of all people living with HIV...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Women and Heroin Addiction in China's Changing Society

   By Huan Gao

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   Accompanying China’s economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, illicit drug use emerged in the late 1980s, and gradually developed into a serious social problem. Heroin was the dominant illicit drug consumed in the new drug epidemic, and the number of female heroin users has increased rapidly...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Trauma, Dissociation and Health

   Casual Mechanisms and Multidimensional Pathways

   Edited by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Bridget Klest

   This book explores the impact of trauma and dissociation on physical health throughout the lifespan. Important chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular disease and chronic pain, are examined. In addition, trauma in childbearing women is considering, specifically examining the short- and long-term...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women

   Diasporic Daughters

   By Youna Kim

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   This book explores the unstudied nature of diaspora among young Korean, Japanese and Chinese women living and studying in the West. Why do women move? What are the actual conditions of their transnational lives? How do they make sense of their transnational lives through the experience of the media...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. Theories and Methodologies in Postgraduate Feminist Research

   Researching Differently

   Edited by Rosemarie Buikema, Gabriele Griffin, Nina Lykke

   Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

   This volume centers on theories and methodologies for postgraduate feminist researchers engaged in interdisciplinary research. In the context of globalization, this book gives special attention to cutting-edge approaches at the borders between humanities and social sciences and specific...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. Safe Motherhood in a Globalized World

   Edited by Barbara Wejnert, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, Nirupama Prakash

   This book provides cutting edge information on safe motherhood in a global context. The chapters focus on research, program development and implementation, and policy dealing with various aspects of pregnancy, labor and delivery. Safe motherhood is a critical issue since healthy, safe motherhood is...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. Women, Religion, and Space in China

    Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins

    By Maria Jaschok, Jingjun Shui

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state? How do women withstand daily discrimination and prolonged hardship under a Communist regime which held rejection of religious beliefs and practices as a patriotic duty?...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge