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Women's Issues in Social Policy

During the 1980s a notable development in mainstream social policy in the United Kingdom was the emergence of a feminist critique. Origin...

Football and Violent Extremism - An Ethnographic Study of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Ultras

This book examines the ways that nationalist leaders and extremist groups have used football to advance their often violent ideological n...

Religion and Gender Equality around the Baltic Sea - Ideologies, Policies, and Private Lives

This volume aims to rethink the intersections of gender and religion, as well as the secular and religious, in implementing and challengi...

Contemporary Voices on Individuation - C.G. Jung's Legacy for the Modern World

This new collection of essays by a range of Jungian analysts and scholars seeks to address the concept of individuation in contemporary t...

Transforming Gender-Based Healthcare with AI and Machine Learning

This book provides a thorough exploration of the intersection between gender-based healthcare disparities and the transformative potentia...

Feminist International Relations Through a Technospatial Lens - An Interdisciplinary Approach

Feminist International Relations Through a Technospatial Lens is a rich, thought-provoking and wide-ranging assessment of power and empow...

Black Girlhood and Identity in Canadian Elementary Schools - A Feminist Perspective on Voice, Agency, and Visibility

This volume uses interview data from self-identified Black women reflecting on their childhood in the Canadian public-school system to ex...

Exploring Saudi Women Through a Socio-Cultural Lens - Echoes of Change

This book examines Saudi women's novels through a genetic structuralist lens, tracing how themes evolve alongside societal changes. It hi...

Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms and Gender Studies - Convergences, Divergences and Pluralities

This handbook is a fundamental contribution to the recent history and contemporary context of feminist, gender, and women¿s studies in a ...

Statistics for Social Change

Feminism in Canada - From Pressure to Politics

Common Sense for Hard Times - The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday Life and Transform Society in the Nineteen Seventies

Toward an Ecological Society compiles key writings from a seminal period in Murray Bookchin's thought, including essays on urbanism, the ...

Mother Was Not a Person

Interconnecting the Violences of Men - Continuities and Intersections in Research, Policy and Activism

This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections ...

Decolonial Sweden

Decolonial Sweden exposes the social and political relevance of European colonialism to Sweden and its place in the world. This book is a...

Ontario Since Confederation - A Reader, Second Edition

Essential reading for history students, this collection examines the evolution of Ontario since Confederation, demonstrating how earlier ...

Masculinities and Representation - The Eroticized Male in Early Modern Italy and England

Masculinities and Representation reveals how gender construction served to affirm but also diversify premodern masculinity.

Raised to Obey - The Rise and Spread of Mass Education

How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizens...

Beyond Constraint - Middle/Passages of Blackness and Indigeneity in the Radical Tradition

Shona N. Jackson offers a new approach to labour and its analysis by demonstrating the fundamental relation between black and Indigenous ...

Gendered Jobs and Social Change

Originally published in 1990, Gendered Jobs and Social Change is a systematic exploration of the changing structure of women's paid work ...

Routledge Handbook of Climate Law and Governance - Courage, Contributions and Compliance

The book recognises UN calls for urgent action reflected in recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, Aug ...

Everyday Democracy - Civil Society, Youth, and the Struggle Against Authoritarian Culture in China

Everyday Democracy is a groundbreaking study of bottom-up organizations in China, arguing that even in an authoritarian state, they nurtu...

Embracing the Messy Complexities of Co-Creation - A Dialogic Approach to Participatory Qualitative Inquiry

This book offers an approach which recognises - and embraces - the messy complexities of co-creation. The approach is constructive - it r...

Young and Restless in China - Informal Economy, Gender, and the Precariat

Contrary to the stereotypical portrayal of the Chinese rural-to-urban migrant workers as hardworking, driven, and filial pious, this book...

Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism - South Africa in the Chinese Century

An ethnography of Chinese capitalist projects in Johannesburg that traces everyday relations of power and difference between ordinary Chi...

More Than Pretty Boxes - How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn't Working

"For a widely dreaded, mundane task, organizing one's possessions has taken a surprising hold on our cultural imagination. For those with...

Mapping the Holistic Journey of Former Vegans - The Polyphony within Veganism

This book explores veganism through the holistic journeys and lived experiences of former vegans, with a particular focus on the impact t...

Previews and Premises

Gathering Electronic Waste in Tanzania - Labor, Value, and Toxicity

"Using Tanzania as a case study, this book traces the lifecycle of electronic goods beyond their discard in the Global South to provide a...

A Shift in the Portrayal of Homosexuality from the Victorian to the Modern Period

This book explores how the reception of homosexuality in literature evolved greatly from the Victorian to Modern era and how an author's ...

Precarious Domesticity and the British Novel - Space, Gender, and Empire

"This book investigates the ways domesticity threatens female characters in British fiction from the 1750s to the 1850s. The author argue...

First Person Plural - Community Development Approach to Social Change

White Privilege - What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

White Privilege: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides succinct, in-depth coverage on the essential components of white privilege, an emo...

Women in World Religions - Exploring the Future

This book delves into the future of the relationship between religion and the status of women. With contributions from distinguished scho...

Breaking the Cycle of Structural Violence in Northern Mexico - Toward Integral Peace

Breaking the Cycle of Structural Violence in Northern Mexico: Toward Integral Peace explores how large-scale economic interests and local...

Global Asias - Tactics & Theories

"Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asia...

Every Life is a Story - The Social Relations of Science, Ecology and Peace

The culmination of a life-long involvement and commitment to peace and environment. Both a social and a personal history.

Gothic Italy - Crime, Science, and Literature After Unification, 1861-1914

Gothic Italy explores how the Gothic permeated and shaped the project of nation-building in the aftermath of Italy’s unification.

Sovereign Atonement - Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border

"Drawing on the experiences in the former border enclaves of India inside Bangladesh, Sovereign Atonement provides a rich ethnographic re...

Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore - The Story of a Woman Who Decided to Be a Puta

In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative middle-class family and studying at the University of São Paulo, Gabriela ...

The Handbook of Marriage in the Arab World

This open access handbook combines multiple theoretical and practical approaches for enabling a nuanced understanding of the phenomenon o...

Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction - Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey

This book examines the political economy of natural resource extraction in the Global South across production and social reproduction, an...

An Introduction to the Soviet Legal System

An Introduction to the Soviet Legal System (1969) sets the main features of modern Soviet law against their background in Russian legal h...

The Unmarried Mother and Her Child

Originally published in 1960, when every twentieth child in this country was born illegitimate and among the children below school-leavin...

Consumers and Consumption in Comparison

Providing a theoretically informed discussion of the specificities of sociology of consumption, Consumers and Consumption in Comparison f...

Women and Symbolic Interaction

Symbolic interaction explains the world of social behavior and the development of the "self" as a function of social learning. First publ...

Soviet Russia Fights Crime

Soviet Russia Fights Crime (1934) examines the workings of the Soviet penal system in the pre-war years of the Soviet Union. It is a valu...

Toward a New Art of Border Crossing

The new art of border-crossing is inspired by a new politics, art, and a spirituality of shared sovereignties and non-sovereignties. This...

Feminism Undaunted: 50 Years as a Muslim Feminist

Wazir Jahan engages the reader in absorbing stories from her childhood to retirement against a backdrop of events in Malaysia -- cultural...

World Order from the People's Perspective in the Middle East - Quantitative Analysis of International Relations Perception and Cross-Border Mobility Experience and Awareness Based on Public Opinion Surveys

The Arab Spring demonstrated the crucial importance of understanding the political awareness and behavior of the general public. This boo...

Gendering Fascism - Individual Actors, Concepts, and Transnational Connections

Gendering Fascism presents new theoretical and methodological approaches to the gendering technologies and strategies of various fascisms...

Uvalde's Darkest Hour

"When the police scanner announced an active shooter at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022, Uvalde Leader-News staff writers held their coll...

Conceptual Realism and Historicity: Brandom Versus Hegel

This book introduces and scrutinizes Brandom's inferentialist solution for accessing mind-external reality and his controversial Hegel in...

Exploring the Grassroots Practice of Rural Revitalization

This book shows six cases of rural grassroots cadres and masses exploring the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. These ...

Indicators of Democracy - The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico

"The spread of democracy across the global south has taken many different forms, but certain features are consistent: implementing a syst...

Somaesthetics of Discomfort: Addressing Identity, Normativity, and Alienation

Utilizing personal narratives and work from pragmatist, feminist, queer, and disability studies, this book develops somaesthetics of disc...

Feminism and the Cinema of Experience

Lori Jo Marso examines a diverse group of feminist film and cinema to show how filmmakers scramble our senses to open up space for encoun...

Respectable Muslims - Morals and Manners of Minority Citizens in France

"Across Europe, many Muslims seek to gain respect through exemplary behavior. This book draws parallels with other minority citizens to e...

Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century

This book mainly seeks to explain, define and update the recurring forms of populism in the 21st century. Examples used in this Introduct...

Transgender and Non-Binary Prisoners' Experiences in England and Wales

Rich in inimitable detail, Transgender and Non-Binary Prisoners' Experiences in England and Wales documents the lived experiences of tran...