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This book provides a critical examination of the discourses that underpin the regulation of children’s access to certain knowledge – understood as ‘difficult knowledge’ – and highlights the way this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood....
To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
Placing sex acts in Asia at the forefront of historical investigation, this book explores the history of sodomy and other so-called transgressive sexual practices, such as anal sex, same-sex erotic encounters, pederasty, bestiality, incest, transgenderism, and oral sex, in East, Southeast and South...
To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
No cultural product reveals our collective fascination with sexual violence more candidly than popular heterosexual pornographies. They showcase scenes of intense sexual aggression and cruelty that are gendered in repetitive, patterned configurations—configurations that are designed to arouse....
To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Routledge
Series: Biomedical Law & Ethics Library
This book takes a critical conceptual approach to the jurisprudence of pregnancy, examining how the three concepts of conflict, personhood and property are key to the legal analysis and decision-making surrounding pregnancy. The book begins by questioning the ‘conflict model’ which is often assumed...
To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
Originally published in 1988, this book compiles a collection of works investigating the impact of recession on women's employment. The authors argue that the most important explanation of differences in women's experience between the countries is the form of labour market regulation and...
To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics
The concept of security has often narrowly focused on issues surrounding the protection of national borders from outside threats. However, a richer idea of human security has become increasingly important in the past decade or so. The aim is to incorporate various dimensions of the downside risks...
To Be Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Perspectives on Gender
Intended for use in courses on law and society, as well as courses in women’s and gender studies, women and politics, and women and the law, this book explores different questions in different North American and European geographical jurisdictions and courts, demonstrating the value of a gender...
To Be Published July 5th 2012 by Routledge
The recent financial and economic crisis has forced governments and people from around the globe to ask some hard questions about how democracy has evolved. Some of these are old questions; others are new. Is democracy really the most desirable form of government? How democratic is policy-making...
To Be Published July 8th 2012 by Routledge
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
This book provides the first English translation of some of the central archival material concerning the development of New Woman (sin yosong) in Korea during the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. It includes selected writings of both women and men who put forward...
To Be Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
Women represent the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs today. Despite the enormous economic contributions of this group, female entrepreneurship remains under-explored and inadequately covered in academic literature. Female Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation aims to address this gap by...
To Be Published July 15th 2012 by Routledge
