Arab, Muslim, Woman

Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film

By Lindsey Moore

Given a long history of representation by others, what themes and techniques do Arab Muslim women writers, filmmakers and visual artists foreground in their presentation...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40416-7 (Routledge)

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Violent Femmes

Women as Spies in Popular Culture

By Rosie White

The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. With reference to popular fiction, film and television Violent Femmes examines the...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37078-3 (Routledge)

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Women's Reflections on the Complexities of Forgiveness

Edited by Wanda Malcolm, Nancy DeCourville, Kathryn Belicki

This book by women represents a diversity of opinions about every aspect of forgiveness, embodying a tolerance for differing perspectives. The contributors are researchers and therapists...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95505-8 (Routledge)

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Disability, Mothers, and Organization

Accidental Activists

By Melanie Panitch

This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists. Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights, these women learned to mother...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95850-9 (Routledge)

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Gender and Family Among Transnational Professionals

Edited by Anne Coles, Anne-Meike Fechter

While interest in migration flows is ever-growing, this has mostly concentrated on disadvantaged migrants moving from developing to Western industrialised countries. In contrast, Euro-American mobile...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39600-4 (Routledge)

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Exploring the Dirty Side of Women's Health

Edited by Mavis Kirkham

In this book, a team of international contributors examine bodies, leakage and boundaries, illuminating the contradictions and dilemmas in women’s healthcare.

Using the concept of...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38325-7 (Routledge)

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Women, Employment and Organizations

By Judith Glover, Gill Kirton

This book brings together the latest European and North American research on a series of key topics in the field of women's employment. Drawing on...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32839-5 (Routledge)

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White Lives

The Interplay of 'Race', Class and Gender in Everyday Life

By Bridget Byrne

This revealing book explores the processes of racialization, class and gender, and examines how these processes play out in the everyday lives of white women...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34712-9 (Routledge)

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Imperialism, Labour and the New Woman

Olive Schreiner's Social Theory

By Liz Stanley

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was the best-known feminist theorist and writer of her time. Her writings spanned a number of conventionally separate genres (including the novel,...

2002 | Paperback: 978-1-903457-04-7 (Routledge-Cavendish)

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Cottons and Casuals: The Gendered Organisation of Labour in Time and Space

By Miriam Glucksmann

Cottons and Casuals explores the connections between women's work in different spheres since the 1930s: paid employment, at home, and in the community. Women's own...

2000 | Paperback: 978-1-903457-00-9 (Routledge-Cavendish)

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