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Research has shown that feminist theory has flowed far more easily from North to South and from West to East, wheras travel in other directions has...

First published in 1988, this book sets out to reinterpret the changing place of working-class association in capitalist Britain. It argues that in...

This book examines the critical themes of employment, growth and development to focus on challenges and opportunities, both old and new, in the con...

This volume presents and interrogates both theoretical and artistic expressions of the revolutionary, militant spirit associated with 1968 and the ...

The main objective of this edited collection is to provide an insight into key facets of contemporary research and scholarship on race and ethnicit...

Based on empirical research in India, this book presents a post-colonial feminist analysis of subjectivities available to Muslim girls and the ways...

This is a compilation of poetry written by Arabic women poets from pre-Islamic times to the end of the Abbasid caliphate and Andalusia, and offers ...

The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics. The scope of this han...

First published in 1999, this volume represents an empirical model of reproductive rights in developing countries. The model encompasses three expl...

This book uses qualitative data to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans confronting and constructing gentrification in Washington...

What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow...

Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the many points of intersection between immigration and crime control. This book discuss...

While historical and protected landscapes have been well studied for years, the cultural significance of ordinary landscapes is now increasingly re...

The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoo...

Queer Inclusion in Teacher Education explores the challenges and promises of building queer inclusive pedagogy and curriculum into teacher educatio...

Noted for its fair and equal coverage of men and women, Psychology of Gender reviews the research and issues surrounding gender from multiple persp...

This book provides a timely reappraisal of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of art the naked body.Beginning with reflections on wh...

Frantz Fanon has established a position as a leading anticolonial thinker, through key texts such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of th...

Abortion and the right of a woman to control her fertility cross boundaries of race, ethnicity, and social class. In this revealing and in-depth st...

 This is the first of two volumes on the transformation of China since 1978. The second volume concentrates on the government administration of the...

Originally published in 1931 and re-editioned in 1973, this book presents Robert Montagues findings about the Berber world, providing a major contr...

This innovative work demystifies the Japanese economy by considering it as a strategic system. Showing how the Japanese miracleâ is actively planne...

Processes of multi-scalar regional urbanization are occurring worldwide. Such processes are clearly distinguishable from those of the nineteenth an...

We live in a time of rising anti-immigrant fervour and attacks on multiculturalism. As Stuart Hall argued over twenty years ago, the capacity to li...

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataNames: Zarafonetis, Nicole, author.Title: Sexuality in a changing China : young women, sex and in...

Markers of identity define human groups: who belongs and who is excluded. These markers are often overt language, material culture, patterns of be...

As the field of translation studies has developed, translators and translation scholars have become more aware of the unacknowledged ideologies inh...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

How is sexuality studied methodologically? How are we innovating, methodologically, in the study of sexuality? What impact, if any, has the increas...

Chinas unprecedented urbanization is underpinned by not only massive rural-urban migration but also a household registration system embedded in a t...

A ground-breaking work in Africana political thought that links the plight of progressive political endeavors in Africa with those in the Diaspora ...

This book focuses on social transformations as one of the central topics in the social sciences. The study of European social transformations is ve...

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent...

Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Setting aside the European migrant-centered ...

Myanmars recovery from half a century of military rule has been fraught. As in other religiously, culturally and linguistically heterogeneous count...

This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and...

This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation,...

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary...

A sequel to Bauer and Dawuni's pioneering study on gender and the judiciary in Africa (Routledge, 2016), International Courts and the African Woman...

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reprod...

Based on extensive original research, including studies of autobiographies and biographies, reminiscences and memoirs, archived oral history data a...

Genocide studies is a relatively new field of comparative inquiry, but recent years have seen an increasing range of themes and subject-matter bein...

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining th...

This book aims to provide insight into the soft side of real estate research and the interesting results and implications of the real estate resear...

Setting up cultural encounters is a widespread intervention strategy employed to diffuse conflicts and manage difficulties related to diversity. Th...

The Reagan administration has indicated clearly that the United States will reassert its strategic presence in Asia and the Pacific at levels not e...

This book is about the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its guerrilla army. Its objective is to offer the reader a close-up look and an...

Advertising, Gender and Society explores contemporary social-psychological theory and original research that examines the portrayal of gender in ad...