Gender Studies

A collection of some of the best known geographers currently writing on gender and sexuality. Issues such as citizenship, work, domestic and homophobic violence and marginalized sexual identities are examined within a geographical context...

Drawing on extensive field research conducted in North America and Britain over a twenty year period, this book challenges masculine myth making. Mindful of a rich sociological tradition that seeks to understand the social world as lived and experienced, the authors provide insights that are likely ..

Drawing on extensive field research conducted in North America and Britain over a twenty year period, this book challenges masculine myth making. Mindful of a rich sociological tradition that seeks to understand the social world as lived and experienced, the authors provide insights that are likely ..

This book investigates contemporary naming practices on marriage in Britain, drawing on survey data and detailed interview material. A critique of the gender-blindness of sociological theories of individualisation, this volume offers evidence of the continued importance of traditions and the past to..

This book explores the ethical, clinical and legal issues surrounding the care and treatment of children with identity disorder (GID), proposing ways of valuing gender diversity, and stressing the responsibilities that a civil society should have towards trans-youth...

Cinesexuality explores the queerness of cinema spectatorship - represented as a unique encounter of desire, pleasure and perversion beyond binary dialectics of subject/object and image/meaning. Through a variety of cinematic examples, the book encourages a radical shift to spectatorship as itself in..

Cinesexuality explores the queerness of cinema spectatorship - represented as a unique encounter of desire, pleasure and perversion beyond binary dialectics of subject/object and image/meaning. Through a variety of cinematic examples, the book encourages a radical shift to spectatorship as itself in..

A highly original account of the spatial metaphor of "the closet". Using a variety of research techniques and materials the book explores the closet through texts including oral histories, travel literature, Butler, Lefebvre and Foucault...

This book presents insights from activists in dramatically diverse cultures working toward a common goal—the eradication of sexual oppression. Contributors share their experiences in organizing for sexual emancipation in many parts of the world, documenting progress in transforming oppressive ..

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

In Contemporary Christianity and LGBT Sexualities rich empirical material is presented by a team of experts to constitute the first comprehensive sociological study of 'non-hetero' sexualities in relation to contemporary Christianity. It will appeal to sociologists, scholars of religion and theology..