Gender Studies

Here Brian Cooper explores the role of economic theory in 'normalizing' the family in the first half of the nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book examines the impacts of these different forms on contemporary debate...

Acknowledging and engaging with some of the innovative work being done by artists, activists, and academics around the issue of fat sex, this collection both challenges preconceptions regarding fatness and sexuality, but also critiques and debates various aspects of the fat activist approach. It dra..

This book explores the nature of female leadership and illustrates how women may seek to renew the notion of leadership through psycho-spiritual development, either in groups, retreats or one-to-one sessions...

Responses to heterosexual female masochism have ranged from neglect in theories that focus predominantly or only upon masochistic sexuality within male subjects, to condemnation from feminists who regard it as an inverted expression of patriarchal control rather than a legitimate form of female desi..

The book argues that strategies for prevention of female sex trafficking should not be universalized but should be contextualized on the basis of country-specific ground situations...

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

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Brings together feminist contributions from two generations of educational researchers to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory emerging from ‘second wave’ feminism and assesses their impact on pupils and teachers in today’s schools and classrooms...

Brings together feminist contributions from two generations of educational researchers to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory emerging from ‘second wave’ feminism and assesses their impact on pupils and teachers in today’s schools and classrooms...

Naples draws on different research topics, such as welfare, poverty, sexual identity, and sexual abuse, to illustrate some of the most salient dilemmas of feminist research: the debate over objectivity, the paradox of discourse, the dilemma of standpoint, and the challenges of activist research. By ..

Drawing on the ’collective biography’ of leading feminist scholars from around the world and current evidence relating to gender equality in education, this book employs methods including biographies, life histories, and narratives to show how the feminist project to transform women’s lives in the d..

Drawing on the experiences of women from Africa, Latin America and Asia, this book challenges traditional development practices of North over South, arguing for the inclusion of issues such as identity and political action as the way forward...