Gender Studies

Drawn from contributions to the magazine Achilles Heel this book provides the reader with helpful and illuminating material on men's relationships with others...

Combining personal experience and original research, Midlife and Aging in Gay America: Proceedings of the SAGE Conference 2000 explores the special issues of aging for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Studies examine caregiving, health care concerns, retirement plans, intergenera..

This book demonstrates how migration is highly gendered, with the experiences of women and men often varying markedly in different migration situations...

This pathbreaking book focusses on perceptions of  'self’ and ’other’ in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa from a gendered perspective. It deals with anti-LGBTQI as well as LGBTQI-friendly aspects of modern culture and politics in countries within these regions, focussing on the functions suc..

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

In recent decades, the body has been at the centre of sociological enquiry, with attention given to discursive practices which have produced and governed normative, gendered bodies._x005F_x000D_ This book explores the relationships between fatness, health, and neoliberal discourse and the role of ec..

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

A rich exploration of birth appropriation in the West, New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment investigates the assimilation of women's embodied power into patriarchal systems of symbolism, culture and politics through the inversion of women's and men's reproductive roles. Contending that ne..

The expansion of sex work studies over the past decade has seen a tendency for research to focus on the more obvious aspects of the sex industry. This cutting edge volume makes an outstanding contribution to the sociology of sex work, advancing theoretical, policy, methodological and empirical ideas..

This book addresses contemporary experiences and health issues facing older GLBT individuals, families and communities._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of GLBT Family Studies...

Drawing on theoretical and empirical insights gained from sexuality studies, social gerontology, and the sociology of later life, this book offers an in-depth understanding of the diverse and complex experiences of older LGB adults, thus providing a serious study of the lives of a significant social..

A groundbreaking study of the intersection between trans identity and technology, Out Online explores the transformative and therapeutic potential of the video blog ( or ’vlog’) as a means by which trans vloggers can emerge and develop online, using the vlog as a site for creation, intervention, com..