Routledge Classics

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to...

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the...

Is cleanliness next to godliness? What does such a concept really mean? Why does it recur as a universal theme across all societies? And what are the implications for the unclean? In 'Purity and Danger' Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity...

Published in a paperback English translation for the first time in the Routledge Classics seriesAvailable in time for the 100th anniversary of Merleau-Ponty's birth in March 2008Merleau-Ponty is one of the series' top 10 best-selling authors, having...