Bücher der Reihe Routledge Research in Gender and Society

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.

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.

This volume represents the present state of the art in theoretical debate in welfare state scholarship, drawing on research from western Europe, North America and Japan.

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.

This collection brings together scholars from education, literary and cultural studies, and Muslim women¿s studies to examine the politics and ethics of transnational anti-colonial reading practices and pedagogy. The book features interviews with Muslim women artists and cultural producers on the role of the arts as a form of critical public pedagogy.

This collection presents new research on gender and rural migration in Europe, North America, South America, China, and Australia. Scholars and practitioners from many disciplines highlight the impact of migration to non-urban centres for research, policy, and practice, as well as the significance of rurality to urban social relations.

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.

Through an examination of case studies in twenty countries, this volume probes the meanings of women¿s empowerment in the context of local conflicts around power, culture and violence, and initiatives from national and global levels.

This volume gathers contributions from academics, activists, and practitioners to explore the intricacies of non-monogamous relationships. Featuring both empirical and theoretical pieces, contributors examine 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.

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).

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).

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

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.