Bücher der Reihe Routledge Research in Gender and Society

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 registered an increase in the intensity and types of violence that have made life in some regions almost unsustainable. The chapters in this volume consider that capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy are interrelated processes that employ the technologies of gender and race as a continuation of the symbolic hegemony that treats feminized and racialized bodies as disposable. Against this background, it becomes necessary to understand from different dimensions the systemic violence against women as well as the processes of articulation between social practices and the permissiveness of the State in the face of aggression. Gender-Based Violence in Mexico mobilizes a dialogue between writings, fields of knowledge, causes and situations as essential tools for the struggle against gender violence. As a situated work that underlines the systematic roots of the violence that keeps women in subaltern positions, the text seeks an insurrection, an uprising of the bodies that invite naming the abject, peripheral and unseen populations of the project of globalized life, woven by the obsession of success and prestige. It presents a counter-conclusion in the manner of a beginning in the desire to elaborate counter-political and counter-pedagogical strategies of non-coercive experiences, where questions and debates are not a sign of belligerence but of vitality and care for the body-territories.Gender-Based Violence in Mexico will appeal to scholars of sociology, criminology, gender and Latin American studies with interests in gendered violence and injustice.

Focusing on gender and sexuality studies, this collection documents how people's most private decisions and practices are intertwined with public institutions and state policies.

Drawing on research in Bosnia-Herzegovina, this book examines the risk that female survivors of war-related sexual crimes will breed hatred and division in the post-conflict context, and offers proposals for a curriculum of peacebuilding that takes account of the legacy of war rape and trauma transmission in survivors' families.

The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism.

Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence examines how gender and other social identities and inequalities shape experiences of, and responses to, violence in intimate relationships.

This book explores the dynamic interplay between cross-national and cross-cultural patterns of female migration, integration and social change, by focusing on the specific case of Belgium. It provides insight into the dynamic interplay between gender and migration, and especially contributes to the knowledge of how migration changes gender relations in Belgium, as well as in the regions of origin. To this end, an analytical model for conducting gender-sensitive migration research is developed out of an initial theory-driven conceptual model. The researchers reveal similarities and differences across national backgrounds, disclosing the underlying, more "universal" gender dynamics.

"This book explores the 'material-discursive entanglement' of how we both make the world with our words and how the materiality of the world forces us to put words on it. It uses the metaphor of refraction to show how material things and technologies can be used to refract discourses and articulate the concerns and voices producing them"--

With a focus on gender and sexuality studies, this edited collection documents how people's most private decisions and practices are intertwined with public institutions and state policies.

As developments in the European Union and elsewhere make the re-examination of citizenship a pressing issue, this book reflects on the 'masculine' character of contemporary democracy and the measures taken in the EU to combat it.

This book foregrounds the experiences of intergenerational cross-cultural women scholars matriculating in universities across the U.S. and abroad, who have traversed historical barriers and systemic boundaries, yet created discursive spaces in the academy to interrogate issues of inequities and marginalization. Empirical research, auto-ethnographies, and critical analyses are used to advance an understanding of how these women have transcended barriers.

When so many call for inclusion of women and a gender perspective in food security, why is the status of women and girls in terms of food security not improving, and to what extent is this failure contributing to overall hunger and malnutrition?

This volume uses empirical studies of gender differences in family responsibilities and time allocation to demonstrate how such differences affect women's wages and analyses pay structures and wage mobility throughout Europe.

Traditionally child sexual abuse has been perceived as a male crime, however, research suggests that a minority of offenders are female. While recognizing the importance of male perpetrators, this book highlights the problems inherent in protecting children. It offers a critical understanding of the notions of harm and the rights of the child.

Examines links between gender, race and national identity in the US, UK, Australia and Japan. This book takes an approach to national identity by analyzing a range of ephemeral and pop cultural texts, from Olympic opening ceremonies, to television advertisements, letters to the editor, broadsheet war coverage, travel brochures, and museums.

Probes the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality. This book puts forward an argument that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth century, and traces the destruction of Medieval discourses on female homosexuality.

Examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women's or 'feminine' subjectivity and selfhood. This title demonstrates how the hierarchical dichotomy of male active versus female passive sexuality - which obscures the true nature of rape - is embedded in the dominant western symbolic frame.

This edited collection explores how the gender identity of men from non-English-speaking backgrounds is influenced by the experiences of migration and settlement in an English-speaking culture, across various cultural spheres such as work, leisure, family life and religion.

Gathers contributions from academics, activists, and practitioners to explore the intricacies of non-monogamous relationships. This title examines the history and cultural basis of non-monogamy, psychological understandings of relationship patterns, language and emotion, mono-normativity and issues of race, class, disability, sexuality and gender.

Drawing on qualitative studies of athletes and fraternity members, this book describes the world of masculinities among men in both the US and England. It is of interest to students and faculty members within Sociology, Gender Studies, and Sport Studies.

Explores how the All India Democratic Women's Association (a socialist women's organization based in India) has flourished in neoliberalism's shadow.

Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations into the nation's politics. This book is a reflection on the effects of these discourses on non-normative modes of sexuality and on the country more generally.

Throughout history, women have participated in defending the welfare of their family, community, class, race or ethnic group. This volume presents original research on women's activism in Asia, Europe, Australia and Latin America. It explores how women have advanced social change and their influence on, and response to, transformations in society.

David Neumarks work on gender and labor markets appears for the first time in one book here with new introductory material.

Queer lives remain at the margins of most academic inquiry into domestic violence. This edited volume seeks to change this discourse by bringing together the most innovative research about intimate partner violence that is specific to the lives of lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender/Two-Spirit and queer people (LGBTQ).

Queer lives remain at the margins of most academic inquiry into domestic violence. This title seeks to change this discourse by bringing together the research about intimate partner violence that is specific to the lives of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/Two-Spirit and queer people (LGBTQ).