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Feminist Publishing at Routledge: Navigating Scholarly Trends and Market Demands

Explore the dynamic landscape of feminist publishing at Routledge, led by acquisitions editor Kimberly Guinta. This overview examines different types of scholarly publishers, including academic and university presses, and highlights Routledge's contributions to gender studies. With a focus on textbooks, research volumes, and anthologies, Routledge publishes over 1,000 titles annually, catering to scholars and educators. Considerations of audience and market trends play a vital role in shaping our publishing strategies, ensuring timely and relevant contributions to feminist discourse and scholarship.

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Feminist Publishing at Routledge: Navigating Scholarly Trends and Market Demands

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  1. Feminist Publishing at Routledge Kimberly Guinta Acquisitions Editor, History Routledge

  2. Review: Types of Scholarly Publishers Textbook • Develops books & materials for use in courses • Sells books through adoptions to college instructors; gives away examination copies of key texts Academic press • Publishes scholarly books and journals, advanced-level textbooks • Sells books to libraries, individual scholars, graduate level adoptions; most have an examination policy more restricted than a textbook publisher’s

  3. Review: Types of Publishers University press • Publishes original scholarly work—sometimes includes journals or trade books • Sells primarily to libraries and individual scholars, with some advanced-level course adoptions; may sell through bookstores if topic is hot

  4. A Bit about Routledge • Imprint of Taylor & Francis Books • T&F part of Informa, PLC • Over 7,000 books on the backlist-publish over 1,000 books per year • Humanities and Social Sciences • Publish for researchers, libraries, classrooms

  5. Types of Routledge Books • Textbooks • Low-level • Advanced • Scholarly volumes • Research • Theory • Case studies • Hybrid Volumes

  6. Additional Types of Books • Edited anthologies • Handbooks • Academic references • Research resources • Practitioner references

  7. Some Routledge Backstory • William Germano • 1980/90s focus on cultural studies, race/class/gender • Other lists within Routledge absorbed the aesthetic • Change in publishing imperatives as the company changed

  8. Greatest Hits…

  9. Greatest Hits… • Gender Trouble, Judith Butler, 1989 1st ed. • Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins, 1990 1st ed. • Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies, bell hooks, 1996 • Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World, Carolyn Merchant, 1995 • Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture, Lisa Duggan & Nan D. Hunter, 1995 • Unequal Sisters, Vicki Ruiz & Ellen DuBois, 1989

  10. Now…

  11. Now… • Gender Trouble, Judith Butler, Routledge Classics, 2008 • Unequal Sisters, Ruiz/DuBois, 2008, 4th ed. • The Feminist History Reader, edited by Sue Morgan, 2006 • Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, Margaret Schaus, 2006 • Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity, Lori Marso, 2006 • Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence, and Hype, Meda Chesney-Lind & Katherine Irwin, 2007

  12. Routledge Research • For smaller, more selective studies • First books or higher level research • Library editions • Series: • Routledge Research in Gender and History • New Approaches in Sociology: Social Inequality, Social Change, and Social Justice (Nancy Naples, series editor) • Routledge Research in Gender and Society • Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development • Routledge International Studies of Women and Place (Janet Momsen & Jan Monk, series editors)

  13. Feminist Publishing at Routledge • A personal choice of a particular editor at any given time • Also governed by the market—race, class, and gender remain reliable themes (or not) • Projects must fit within one of the defined categories that we publish

  14. Some Considerations: Market • WHERE will the book be read? • Academic disciplines-other scholars in the field reading to keep up with new research • Professional arenas-practitioners reading for guidance or reference • General populace

  15. Some Considerations: Audience • WHO will read the book? • Students • Scholars • Researchers • Practitioners • Educated lay people

  16. Keeping Perspective • What other books have been written on the same topic? • Should we publish the book? Who else could publish it? • Who will read the book? • Who will BUY the book?

  17. Some Challenges • Competition from other presses • Are women’s issues feminist by default? • Market pressures-what sells? • Editors/staff who aren’t feminists

  18. Our Role • To keep women’s issues and gender as a broad category in the forefront of our scholarly publishing • To find innovative ways of packaging material to reach a course market and yet still remain on the leading edge in terms of content

  19. Thank you! Kimberly Guinta Routledge 270 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10016 kimberly.guinta@taylorandfrancis.com

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