Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

ジェンダーとシティズンシップ・ハンドブック
Siim, Birte / Stoltz, Pauline (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Citizenship. 701 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-801>
ISBN 978-3-031-57143-5 hard ¥43,754.- (税込) EUR 179.99

This handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of key theoretical, analytical and normative approaches, topics and debates in contemporary scholarship about gender and citizenship. It demonstrates how diverse historical, social, political, economic and legal dimensions have shaped the evolution of gendered citizenship in different parts of the world, as well as how these dimensions transform the interrelations between individuals, social groups and communities across time, place and space. Bringing together insights from scholars across gender studies, political science, law, sociology, philosophy and cultural studies, this book demonstrates how intersectional and transnational approaches can provide us with theoretical and methodological tools to understand gendered inequalities and injustices in societies. Chapters examine relations between gender, sexuality, populism and nationalism; transnational feminism during times of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter; the increasing political and popular support of LGBTQ+ claims as human rights issues; trans/gender citizenship; gendered indigenous citizenship; and the intersections of gender, religion and citizenship, among others. The handbook concludes with future directions for research guided by the main debates about intersectional and transnational approaches in the field of gender and citizenship. This handbook will be valuable reading for scholars, researchers, and policymakers around the globe in Gender Studies, Citizenship Studies, Sociology, Law, Political Science, and Cultural Studies.

民主主義諸国におけるジェンダーと汚職ハンドブック
Barnes, Tiffany D. / Beaulieu, Emily (eds.), Handbook on Gender and Corruption in Democracies. (International Handbooks on Gender) 480 pp. 2024:9 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-822>
ISBN 978-1-80392-323-9 hard ¥63,404.- (税込) GB￡ 220.00

Providing an authoritative global overview of theoretical and empirical research in the field, this Handbook explores the complex relationship between gender and corruption in democracies. Through an analysis of the gendered dynamics of corruption across institutions, it advances understanding of both its causes and consequences.Expert authors examine core concepts in the study of corruption, identifying important areas where gender is often overlooked. They investigate key issues such as anti-corruption efforts, sextortion, clientelism, and the perception of corruption. Chapters detail the relationship between gender and corruption across branches of government and in a wide range of cultural contexts, including those beyond the West. The Handbook also assesses methodological challenges and ethical considerations for researchers and outlines innovative approaches and guidelines for studying corruption.The Handbook on Gender and Corruption in Democracies is a vital read for students and scholars of political science, regulation and governance, public administration and management, and gender politics. It is also an illuminating resource for policy-makers seeking to combat corruption and advance women's representation and access to public services.

Dousemetzis, Harris, The Carter Presidency and Gay Rights: The Revolution that Dared Not Speak Its Name. 352 pp. 2024:8 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-828>
ISBN 978-1-350-38109-4 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00
ISBN 978-1-350-38108-7 paper ¥8,066.- (税込) GB￡ 27.99

Examining a significant and largely unexplored aspect of Jimmy Carter's presidency (1977-1981), Harris Dousemetzis radically revises the current understanding of this critical period in American political history. By using a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, along with personal interviews with 43 prominent gay rights activists of the time and 12 senior Carter White House aides, this book documents what actually happened during Carter's presidency regarding the development and recognition of gay rights and the efforts of the evangelical right to prevent social reform. Investigating the full range of government actions taken and policies implemented, Carter's personal commitment and support for the movement, as well as the role of activists in bringing about change, this is a significant and original contribution to knowledge about Carter's presidency, the gay rights movement, and American political development. Dousemetzis situates Carter's presidency in its rightful place, as a crucial stage in one of the most dynamic areas of change in recent American politics and political culture.

現代のマンガを通じた源氏物語－日本における変化するジェンダーとセクシュアリティ
Miyake, Lynne K., The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga: Challenging Gender and Sexuality in Japan. (SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan) 264 pp. 2024:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-909>
ISBN 978-1-350-42493-7 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga versions of The Tale of Genji use gender, sexuality, and desire to challenge perceptions of reading and readership, morality and ethics, and what is translatable from one culture to another. Lynne K. Miyake shows that, through their girls, ladies, Boy Love, boys and young men, and informational comics remediations of the tale, the manga Genjis visually, narratively, and affectively rework male and female gazes; Miyake reveals how they gently inject humor, eroticize, gender flip, queer, and simultaneously re-inscribe and challenge heteronormative gender norms. The first full-length study of Genji manga, this book analyses these adaptations within manga studies and the historical and cultural moments that fashioned and sustained them. It also interrogates the circumscribed, in-group aristocratic society and the consumer and production practices of the Heian society that come full circle in the manga versions. The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga utilizes western queer, feminist, sexuality and gender theory and Japanese cultural practices to illuminate the ways in which the Genji tale redeploys itself. Yet it also provides much needed context and explanation regarding the charges of appropriation of prepubescent (fe)male and gay bodies and the utilization of (sexual) violence mounted against Genji manga-and manga and anime in general once they went global.

Sun, Chengjuan, Women as Writing Subjects in High Qing China: Reconfiguring the Poetics of Feminine Propriety. (Women and Gender in China Studies 14) 223 pp. 2024:9 (Brill, NE) <726-931>
ISBN 978-90-04-69515-3 hard ¥23,094.- (税込) EUR 95.00

In what ways did Qing gentry women's concern for gender and social propriety shape their assertions of female subjectivity and agency? How did they exploit the state promotion of female virtue and Confucian morality for self-fulfillment? With a focus on three of the most widely acclaimed mid-Qing women authors, this book uses both synchronic and diachronic approaches to analyze writings on conjugal love, widowhood, women's education, maternal teaching, boudoir objects, and history, illustrating their vibrant, gendered revision of literati poetic convention, thus proposing an alternative analytical framework that goes beyond the rigid dichotomy of compliance versus resistance.

ジェンダー、セクシュアリティ、法－テキストブック
Ashford, Chris / Maine, Alexander (eds.), Gender, Sexuality and Law: A Textbook. 272 pp. 2024:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-500>
ISBN 978-1-80088-265-2 hard ¥27,379.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-80088-267-6 paper ¥10,087.- (税込) GB￡ 35.00

This textbook combines pioneering feminist and queer judgements and statutes with critical and intersectional theories, to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of gender, sexuality and law. A diverse range of socio-legal experts set out the theoretical and legal foundations of the topic, before examining the ongoing struggle for rights and contemporary dissenting voices.Key Features:Inclusion of feminist and queer judgments and statutes linked to gender and sexualityAccessible and detailed discussion of feminist and queer theory, and critical race theoryDiscussion of the decriminalisation of homosexuality, consent and sexual violence, hate crime, sex work and pornographyExploration of trans identities, relationship recognition rights, parenthood and reproduction, pregnancy and abortion, gender and the legal profession, and identities and employmentAccessibly written and carefully structured, this textbook is an important resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of gender, sexuality, feminist law and queer legal studies. It is also a crucial read for those studying law and society, criminology and cultural studies.

大戦間期における女性の法的ランドマーク
Auchmuty, Rosemary / Rackley, E. / Takayanagi, Mari (eds.), Women's Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years: Not for Want of Trying. 448 pp. 2024:8 (Hart, UK) <726-517>
ISBN 978-1-5099-6972-2 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Women's Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years shines new light on 33 legal landmarks, many forgotten today, that affected women in England and Wales between 1918 and 1939. It considers the work of feminist activists to bring about legal change which benefited - or aimed to benefit - women. Areas explored include property, inheritance, adoption, marriage, access to health care, criminal law, employment opportunities, pay, pensions and political representation. It also examines campaigns by key women's organisations, and assesses the impact of early women lawyers and politicians. While some of the landmarks effected change during this period, others provided the foundation for measures in later decades. Together the landmarks demonstrate that far from being a relatively quiet period of British feminism, the interwar period played a key role in ongoing fights for recognition, representation and justice.

A.J.Mills他編　経営におけるジェンダー百科事典
Helms Mills, Jean / Mills, Albert J. et al. (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia on Gender in Management. (Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management series) 544 pp. 2025:1 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-6>
ISBN 978-1-80392-205-8 hard ¥51,876.- (税込) GB￡ 180.00

Stone, Alison, Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900. 304 pp. 2024:8 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <726-64>
ISBN 978-0-19-891797-7 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

Women on Philosophy of Art is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. It looks at seven women spanning the time from the Enlightenment to the beginning of modernism. They are Anna Barbauld, Joanna Baillie, Harriet Martineau, Anna Jameson, Frances Power Cobbe, Emilia Dilke, and Vernon Lee. The central issue that concerned them was how art related to morality and religion. Baillie and Martineau treated art as an agency of moral instruction, whereas Dilke and Lee argued that art must be made for beauty's sake. Barbauld, Jameson, and Cobbe thought that beauty and religion were linked, while other women believed that art and religion must be decoupled. Other topics explored are gender and genius, tragedy, literary realism, why we enjoy the sufferings of fictional characters, the hierarchy of the art-forms, whether art can transcend its historical circumstances, and critical issues around the artistic canon. Examining the print culture that made these women's interventions possible, this book shows that these women were doing a particular kind of philosophy of art, which was interdisciplinary and closely tied to artistic criticism and practice. The book traces how these seven women influenced one another, as well as engaging with their male contemporaries. But unlike their male interlocutors, these women have been unjustly left out of narratives about the history of aesthetics. By including these women, we can enrich and broaden our understanding of the history of philosophy of art.

ジェンダーと健康研究アジェンダ
Gideon, Jasmine / Hawkes, Sarah (eds.), A Research Agenda for Gender and Health. (Elgar Research Agendas) 208 pp. 2024:9 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-361>
ISBN 978-1-80220-921-1 hard ¥27,379.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

A Research Agenda for Gender and Health critically examines a diverse range of health topics relating to gender. Employing a global range of empirical case studies, expert authors assert that gender equality is fundamental to creating healthier societies.This multidisciplinary Research Agenda explores how gender drives specific health outcomes and is an integral feature of how other health determinants are experienced. Chapters assess key topics such as the impact of colonialism on understandings of gender and health; the roles and interactions of the private and public sector; the emergence of new anti-gender opposition; and the governance of the gender and health nexus. Overall, the authors not only evaluate current policy and practice but also propose new concepts and ideas for future research.This Research Agenda is an essential resource for students and scholars of gender studies, public health, geography and social policy. It will also appeal to researchers interested in international development and global health.

Rosenlee, Li-Hsiang Lisa, Confucian Feminism: A Practical Ethic for Life. (Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies) 224 pp. 2024:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-142>
ISBN 978-1-350-42616-0 hard ¥18,733.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-350-42617-7 paper ¥5,760.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

In Confucian Feminism Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee expands the theoretical horizons of feminism by using characteristic Confucian terms, methods, and concerns to interrogate the issue of gender oppression and liberation. With its theoretical roots in the Confucian textual tradition, this is the first re-imagining of Confucianism that enriches, and is enriched by, feminism. Incorporating distinctive Confucian conceptual tools such as ren (benevolent governance), xiao (filial care), you (friendship), li (ritual), and datong (great community), Rosenlee creates an ethic of care that is feminist and Confucian. At the same time she confronts the issue of gender inequity in Confucian thought. Her hybrid feminist theory not only broadens the range of feminist understandings of the roots of gender oppression, but opens up what we believe constitutes gender liberation for women transnationally and transculturally. Here is a practical ethic that uses Confucianism to navigate the contours of inequality in everyday life.

Garroway, Kristine Henriksen / Kim, H. C. P. et al. (eds.), Violence against Women and Children in the Hebrew Bible: Between Trauma and Resilience. (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) 216 pp. 2024:10 (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, UK) <726-189>
ISBN 978-0-567-70469-6 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

What did violence against women and children mean for ancient audiences and how do modern audiences hear and process the meaning of violence in the texts of the Hebrew Bible? The rape of Tamar, the sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter, babes ripped from the womb during war-texts such as these are hardly fodder for Sunday School classes; yet we are left with the reality that the Bible is a violent text full of war, murder, genocide, and destruction, often carried out at the behest of God. The essays in this volume explore ways in which the Hebrew Bible uses and abuses women and children to make indelible points concerning the people of Israel, the lived realities of the Israelite society, and God's relationship to His people. Where other works turn to the study of the violence itself, or to the divine nature of violence, this volume focuses in on the human component. As a result, these studies are reminders that women and children born out of trauma are at once vulnerable and valuable, fragile and resilient.

Watson, Elise / Farrell-Jobst, Jessica (eds.), Gender and the Book Trades. (Library of the Written Word 128 / The Handpress World) 500 pp. 2024:10 (Brill, NE) <726-19>
ISBN 978-90-04-70164-9 hard ¥55,669.- (税込) EUR 229.00

This volume proposes a new and radically inclusive approach to the study of the book by using gender as a tool of analysis. While female authors and women in the book trades have long been studied, gender itself has yet to be explored as a methodology rather than a subject in book history. We argue that putting gender analysis into practice requires thinking inclusively about both the book world and the interactions of its participants from the beginning. With twenty-five pioneering case studies that stretch from colonial Peru to modern Delhi, using a variety of intersectional methodologies including network analysis, critical bibliography, and queer theory, Gender and the Book Trades sets out an innovative method of analysing the printed book. Contributors include: Rebecca Baumann, Montserrat Cachero, Veronica Calsoni Lima, Matthew Chambers, Kanupriya Dhingra, Nora Epstein, Natalia Fantetti, Jessica Farrell-Jobst, Agnes Gehbald, Rabia Gregory, Laura Guinot Ferri, Elizabeth Le Roux, Sarah Lubelski, Natalia Maillard Alvarez, Charley Matthews, Susan McElrath, Kirk Melnikoff, Malcolm Noble, Kate Ozment, Joanna Rozendaal, Kandice Sharren, Valentina Sonzini, Elise Watson, Joelle Weis, Helen Williams, Alexandra E. Wingate, and Georgianna Ziegler.

Pae, Keun-joo Christine / Talvacchia, Kathleen T. (eds.), Searching for the Future in the Past: Reclaiming Feminist Theological Visions. (T&T Clark Renewing Feminist Theology as Inclusive Radical Praxis) 224 pp. 2024:11 (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, UK) <726-219>
ISBN 978-0-567-71220-2 hard ¥18,733.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-0-567-71219-6 paper ¥6,337.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99

Inclusive and progressive theological and religious perspectives have an important and distinctive contribution to make to an analysis of the critical issues facing women-identified persons in the 21st century. This incisive collection of essays recovers the missing theological voices, grounded in those religious communities and traditions, which gender and sexuality studies often overlook. Feminist theologies have, from their beginnings, aspired to be the communal production of women-identified persons who critically reflect on their experiences in the contexts of culture, social standpoint, religious practices and beliefs, and imagination of the Feminine Divine. Pae and Talvacchia draw from this heritage to engage the critical issues of today to create new perspectives. They create an intellectual and discursive space where feminist theologians in all of their diversity renew and reclaim the rich legacies of the feminist theological tradition through inter-generational, racially diverse, and transnational conversation.

Ramsay, Laura, Sexuality and the Church of England, 1918-1980. (Genders and Sexualities in History) 309 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-227>
ISBN 978-3-031-56391-1 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book presents an original and archivally rich account of the Church of England's institutional grappling with matters of sex, relationships, marriage, birth control, and same-sex attraction between 1918 and 1980, uncovering a long and complex history of debates and disagreements that led to its present-day impasse over issues of sexuality. Across a long and previously underexplored chronology, the book examines various ways in which Anglicans shaped and popularised understandings of sex and desire, conceptions of sexual morality, and notions of sexual citizenship. Its account begins in the interwar years when the church exerted a powerful influence on attitudes and approaches towards sex and morality, moves through the challenges of the post-war years when Anglicans continued to debate and construct the new moral landscape of the permissive society, and ends in the late twentieth century when the church's preferred means of functioning as an agent of mediation ultimately meantit lost pace with new approaches towards sexual identities and relationships. Despite its historically established role in guiding the nation, by the late 1970s, the church had unwittingly painted itself into a corner by provoking internal disputes that it struggled to resolve. As its compromise positions became outdated, the church's views increasingly fell out of favour and contributed to its gradual demise as a former expert on sexual issues.

1980年以降のシングルマザーの経済学
Woflfinger, Nicholas H. / McKeever, Matthew, Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980. 280 pp. 2024:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <726-270>
ISBN 978-0-19-932432-3 hard ¥11,207.- (税込) US$ 49.95

In 1980, single mother families were five times more likely than two-parent families to be poor. Forty years later, single-mother families are still five times more likely to be poor. How can this be given the vast increases in education and employment achieved by American women over this period? In Thanks for Nothing, Nicholas H. Wolfinger and Matthew McKeever explore the contradictions that lie at the heart of single motherhood. Drawing on forty years of data from two large national surveys, they find that the mystery of single mothers' economic stagnation can be explained by changes in the kind of women most likely to become single mothers. In 1980, most single mothers were divorced women; forty years later, the majority are mothers who gave birth out of wedlock. On paper, divorced women look a lot like their married contemporaries, but with one income instead of two. Never-married mothers are a completely different population--they have less education, work less, and receive lower economic returns on their educational credentials when they do work. They're also far more likely to have grown up in underprivileged families. Ultimately, Wolfinger and McKeever find that some single mothers are doing better even as others have fallen through the cracks. Providing an in-depth look into the economics of single motherhood, Thanks for Nothing offers the most detailed statistical portrait of single mothers to date and, importantly, provides concrete suggestions for how policymakers should respond to persisting inequalities among mothers.

Hakim, Jamie / Cummings, James / Young, Ingrid, Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis. 240 pp. 2024:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1133>
ISBN 978-1-350-38174-2 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Queer men's cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, safer sex, sexual racism and gay marriage. The introduction of the smartphone in 2008 only intensified these debates whilst also raising a further set of questions which are explored in this open access book. Through interviews with a diverse group of 43 queer men about their smartphone mediated intimacies, Digital Intimacies reveals that queer men use their smartphones, not simply to arrange intimate encounters, but more specifically to gain a sense of control over the parts of their intimate lives that make them feel most vulnerable. For instance, some use messaging apps to gain a sense of control over intimate conversations that they feel too vulnerable to have in person. Others use the 'block' function on dating apps to feel in control of the racism and transphobia they are vulnerable to on these apps. Digital Intimacies therefore illuminates not only hitherto underexplored aspects of queer men's cultures of intimacy but crucially also brings into view previously obscured cultural dynamics, gaining insight into the historical moments in which they occur. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

19世紀フランスにおける家族と移民
Rosental, Paul-Andre, Les sentiers invisibles: familles et migrations: France XIXe siecle. (Biblis) 377 p. 2024:4 (CNRS, FR) <726-1166>
ISBN 978-2-271-15014-1 paper ¥2,674.- (税込) EUR 11.00

アメリカを形成した100人の黒人女性
Starks, Glenn L., 100 Black Women Who Shaped America: Their Legacy. 352 pp. 2024:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1168>
ISBN 978-1-4408-8108-4 hard ¥21,615.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00

This introductory text explores the lives of 100 Black women and their unique and meaningful legacies upon the history, society, and culture of the USA. Today, the names and remarkable achievements of Black women such as Maya Angelou, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, and Oprah Winfrey are well known to many Americans. Yet throughout American history, many lesser-known Black women like them have made invaluable contributions to sports, science, the arts, medicine, politics, and civil rights. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, who published the first newspaper written for and by African American women, championed the cause of women's suffrage. Matilda Sissieretta Jones, whose father was an enslaved person, toured Europe and performed at the White House in front of four different presidents as one of the great sopranos of her generation. Augusta Savage, overcoming racism and sexism, became one of the most celebrated sculptors in history. This book serves as an important reminder that the story of America cannot be told without the Black women who, with strength and determination, have always pushed America forward even when others held them back.

Coutts, Peter J. F. / Watson, Alan, Resurrecting Family Histories and Biographies for Members of the Society of Friends in Ireland: John Boles, a Case Study. (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies) 108 pp. 2024:5 (Brill, NE) <726-1173>
ISBN 978-90-04-69400-2 paper ¥17,017.- (税込) EUR 70.00

Irish Quaker biographers have focused on ministers, the influential and wealthy; many biographies are also unstructured and selective, leaving gaps in the narrative. The current work uses the life and family of John Boles (1661-1731), a Quaker stalwart for 50 years, as a case study for the biographer, introducing the major sources and showing how they can be deployed to 'resurrect' the contributions of the anonymous Quaker majority. As the biography is developed, information is explored and analyzed to construct reliable genealogical charts; information is culled from Friends' records to document the contributions and failures of family members in the context of their Quaker meetings; land records are consulted to measure and assess their gradual accumulation of wealth and the historical context is discussed as a backdrop to their evolving socio-economic status - all topics essential for comprehensive Quaker biographies and family histories.

Duffy, Deirdre, Abortion Trail Activism: The Global Infrastructures for Abortion Access. 224 pp. 2024:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1175>
ISBN 978-1-350-24700-0 hard ¥18,733.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-350-24699-7 paper ¥6,337.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99

Abortion trail activists are national and transnational organizations and movements that enable access to safe abortion - this open access book adopts a global perspective to explore their historic contribution to reproductive justice, their innovative work, and the continuing and emergent problems they face. Deirdre Duffy offers the first dedicated analysis of both the historic and on-going relationship between groups supporting access to abortion and abortion politics, drawing on theoretical perspectives and debates including post-colonialism, feminist anarchism and health activism. Challenging assumptions about the achievements of pro-choice politics, Duffy examines the race-based exclusions within and created by dominant historic pro-choice narratives, critiquing the prochoice movements' whiteness, and the limitations of a focus on legal change. Case studies are drawn from across the Global North and South, including examples from Argentina, Kenya, Poland, the Netherlands, and Ireland. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Lancaster University.

Kemp, Theresa D., Daily Life of Women in Shakespeare's England. (Daily Life through History) 304 pp. 2024:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1181>
ISBN 978-1-4408-7025-5 hard ¥15,851.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00

Delve into the often-overlooked lives and legacies of everyday women in Tudor and Stuart England. Owing to their privilege and social stature, much is known about the elite women of 16th- and 17th-century England. Historians know far less, however, about the everyday women from the middle and lower classes from the 1550s to 1650 who left behind only scattered bits and pieces of their lives. Born into a narrow class and gender hierarchy that placed women second to men in almost all regards, women from the poor and middling ranks had limited social and economic opportunities beyond what men and the church afforded them. Yet, as Theresa D. Kemp shows in this addition to the Daily Life through History series, many of these women, most of them illiterate by modern standards, found creative ways to assert agency and push back against social norms. In an era when William Shakespeare debuted his plays at the Globe Theatre in London, everyday English women were active in religious movements, wrote literature, and went to court to protest abuse at home. Ultimately, a close examination of the lives of these women reveals how instrumental they were in shaping English society during a transformative and dynamic period of British history.

Kim, Patricia Eunji / Tchaplyghine, Anastasia (eds.), Queens in Antiquity and the Present: Speculative Visions and Critical Histories. 368 pp. 2024:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1182>
ISBN 978-1-350-38088-2 hard ¥25,938.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

This interdisciplinary edited volume explores the notion of queenship as it has manifest from antiquity to the present, in contexts ranging from political acts to art production. Featuring the work of scholars, educators, curators and artists, this book gathers temporally and geographically distinct ideas about queenship into a single discursive space. Invigorating the conversation around powerful historical women and their legacies, the contributors discuss 'queenship' as a concept with contemporary urgency-from North America to Africa, and Europe to Asia-foregrounding critical methodologies and creative interventions that address the gaps within archives and current cultural and socio-political representation. Although traditional narratives present queens of the ancient Mediterranean world primarily as the wives, daughters and mothers of kings, such as Semiramis and Cleopatra, the ways in which royal women wielded power-whether directly or indirectly-were actually multivariate, highly nuanced and culturally specific. The current contributions featured in this volume are concerned with teasing out the modern assumptions that have heavily influenced interpretations of gender norms and power dynamics in antiquity. In addition to re-examining primary sources, this volume scrutinizes the historiographies, methodologies and stereotypes that have shaped knowledge production and popular imagination over the course of hundreds and even thousands of years. As such, contributors present different kinds of receptions and speculative articulations of historical queenship, thus forging new paths forward for reconstructing and imagining queenships from antiquity to the present.

Masters, Katie, Feminist and Anti-Psychiatry Perspectives on 'Social Anxiety Disorder': The Socially Anxious Woman. 256 pp. 2024:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-1184>
ISBN 978-3-031-48706-4 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Can the diagnosis 'Social Anxiety Disorder' (SAD) in women be understood as a rational response to life in postfeminist, neoliberal, twenty-first century Britain? By speaking to women with this diagnosis, and drawing on the author's own lived experience, this book investigates the interplay between women's social anxiety and Western culture. It argues that societal factors are implicated in women's mental distress to a far greater extent than dominant (especially psychiatric) narratives would hold - narratives which, premised on individual pathology, often present a biologically reductionist and medicalised account. Through deploying a unique blend of feminism and anti-psychiatry, this book critiques the framework which exists around diagnosing and treating SAD, but without dismissing distress. Inspired by feminist critiques of other gendered psychiatric diagnoses, such as Anorexia Nervosa, it conceptualises 'SAD' - which appears to be more prevalent in women - as a 'culture-bound syndrome'. This book develops feminist scholarship which has explored women's socialisation and gendered power relations: from the requirement to emulate beauty ideals and embody contradictory imperatives of femininity, to the newer, social media-fuelled pressure to present the 'best version of oneself'. Laying bare these exigent demands, and their associated 'no-win' situations, women's self-surveillance and concern with being evaluated negatively - both of which exemplify SAD - are, in the spirit of antipsychiatry, rendered comprehensible. This book will be of tremendous utility for those with interests in gender studies and sociology.

Papanastasiou, Emmy, Gender and Educational Leadership in Greece. (Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives) 192 pp. 2024:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1187>
ISBN 978-1-350-39982-2 hard ¥25,938.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Worldwide women constitute the majority of the teaching force, but men are more likely to achieve headship. Internationally a number of scholars working within sociology and the sociology of education have focused on the continued influence of gender on the shaping of identity and choices in relation to leadership, work and home. But in Greece the under-representation of women in educational leadership has received limited attention. Why are there so few women in educational leadership? How are leadership and gender constructed by men and women head teachers and teachers? Are the perceptions of men and women different and gendered? What is the future for women in leadership in Greece? Emmy Papanastasiou uses qualitative data from interviews with men and women head teachers and teachers in Greece and analyzes them using a feminist social constructionist framework to provide some answers to these key questions. In doing so, the book sheds light on social, cultural and political factors that influence women's potential advancement in educational leadership.

性のコントロール－革命後に女性でいること　1800～15年
Prevot, Chantal, Le sexe controle: etre femme apres la Revolution (1800-1815). 374 p. 2024:4 (Passes Composes, FR) <726-1189>
ISBN 978-2-37933-542-6 paper ¥5,834.- (税込) EUR 24.00

Rashed, Doaa / Suarez, Debra, (eds.), Female Leadership Identity in English Language Teaching: Autoethnographies of Global Perspectives. (Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning 16) 328 pp. 2024:6 (Brill, NE) <726-1191>
ISBN 978-90-04-70218-9 hard ¥44,730.- (税込) EUR 184.00
ISBN 978-90-04-70217-2 paper ¥19,448.- (税込) EUR 80.00

Step into the lives of extraordinary women leaders in this groundbreaking volume. This compelling collection presents autoethnographies of twenty-five women leaders in English Language Teaching (ELT) from around the world. Grounded in key leadership theories and ELT research, these narratives examine the intersectionality of gender, race, culture, and transnational experiences in shaping leadership identities. Authors candidly share their triumphs and challenges, inspiring readers to embrace their own leadership potential and effect change in their communities and beyond. By articulating the personal, institutional and global complexities, the narratives inform our understanding of how ELT teachers navigate the path to leadership. Contributors are: Tasha Austin, Lena Barrantes-Elizondo, Kisha Bryan, Quanisha Charles, May F. Chung, Ayanna Cooper, Tanya Cowie, Taslim Damji, Darlyne de Haan, Su Yin Khor, Sarah Henderson Lee, Gloria Park, Ana-Marija Petrunic, Doaa Rashed, Kate Mastruserio Reynolds, Teri Rose Dominica Roh, Mary Romney-Schaab, Amira Salama, Cristina Sanchez-Martin, Xatli Stox, Debra Suarez, Shannon Tanghe, Lan Wang-Hiles, Marie Webb and Amea Wilbur.

21世紀のリプロダクション政策－比較分析
Zagel, Hannah (ed.), Reproduction Policy in the Twenty-First Century: A Comparative Analysis. 208 pp. 2024:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-1200>
ISBN 978-1-03-532415-6 hard ¥27,379.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

This pertinent book investigates how governments are involved in human reproduction. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the book gathers crucial insights from the fields of sociology, law, political science and demography to better understand reproduction policy in the twenty-first century.Arguing that reproduction policy is a regulatory domain of the welfare state, expert authors from across the globe analyse cases concerning sexuality education, contraception, abortion, pregnancy care, medically assisted reproduction and related policies. Cross-country and cross-policy comparisons reveal how ideologies, policy goals, and instruments in this domain are interlinked, and show where these interrelations contradict. Ultimately, Reproduction Policy in the Twenty-First Century highlights the need for further comparative academic work on reproduction policy, recommending a future research agenda which will influence the creation of policy landscapes that support the reproductive welfare of all.This timely book is a crucial resource for students and researchers of comparative social policy, human rights law, politics and public policy. Building on cornerstone feminist arguments, it is also of interest to sociologists more broadly as it investigates social inequalities in the domain of reproduction.

マルクス主義的フェミニストの視点から－自由、合理性、人間性について
Holmstrom, Nancy, From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Essays on Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature. (Historical Materialism Book Series 315) 304 pp. 2024:8 (Brill, NE) <726-128>
ISBN 978-90-04-70326-1 hard ¥30,387.- (税込) EUR 125.00

This book shows the fruitfulness of approaching key philosophical and political questions from a Marxist-feminist point of view. The idea is that different modes of production like capitalism and feudalism have structures -- 'relations of production' -- which shape and limit the potentials for human emancipation in general and women's freedom in particular. Capitalism is then understood as a framework within which other relations of oppression operate, with more or less salience in different times and places. Each of the essays takes this basic approach to key philosophical questions about freedom, rationality and human nature.

ジェンダーと都市ハンドブック
Peake, Linda / Datta, A. / Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, G. (eds.), Handbook on Gender and Cities. (International Handbooks on Gender) 496 pp. 2024:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-1056>
ISBN 978-1-78643-612-2 hard ¥63,404.- (税込) GB￡ 220.00

This Handbook is a state-of-the-art exploration of the multidisciplinary field of gender and cities scholarship, providing in-depth assessments of the latest research within key areas of feminist urban academia. Editors Linda Peake, Anindita Datta and Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin have brought together over 60 feminist scholars to present cutting-edge insights into this important field of study.The Handbook on Gender and Cities presents a cross-section of contemporary feminist work, spanning a range of theories and practices associated with urban space. Contributing authors explore key issues including urban policy, planning and politics; the urban economic arena; the urban environment; the urban everyday; feminist imaginaries of urban spaces and places; and feminist and decolonial urban knowledge production. The editors trace numerous crucial themes across the Handbook's chapters, namely patriarchy, social reproduction, gendered violence, and women's agency and the arena of the everyday. Whilst the Handbook celebrates the continually developing field of feminist urban studies, it acknowledges the volume of work still to be done and encourages future research to better accept and understand its complex and multiplicitous nature.This forward-thinking Handbook is a vital resource for students, scholars and researchers in the fields of urban studies, geography, sociology, anthropology, women's and gender studies and development studies. Its discussion of contemporary issues in urban settings will also appeal to professionals and practitioners working in public policy, urban design and planning.

Ana, Alexandra, The NGOization of Social Movements in Neoliberal Times: Contemporary Feminisms in Romania and Belgium. (Gender and Politics) 322 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-1070>
ISBN 978-3-031-45130-0 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Drawing on theories in politics, sociology, gender and feminist studies, and social movement studies, this book compares and contrasts NGOized feminist organizations and informal street feminist groups in Belgium and Romania in order to understand the transformation of modern and contemporary feminist movements. Chapters trace the development of this NGOization process and its entanglements with neoliberal modes of governance and techniques and proposes an historically and empirically grounded analytical model to studying the NGOization of feminist movements as a multidimensional process. By analyzing the NGOization process through a cross-national comparison based on very different cases, the book disentangles the links between institutionalization, professionalization, bureaucratization and precarization and brings clarifications concerning the outcomes associated with them, such as demobilization, depoliticization, co-optation and burn-out. This book places the NGOization offeminist movement organizations within the specific context of relations between the state and the market in neoliberalism. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers across Gender & Feminist Studies, Social Movements, Sociology, and Politics.

Marinucci, Mimi, Digital Stimulation: Fascination, Familiarity, and Fantasy in Human Relationships with Robots. 240 pp. 2024:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1081>
ISBN 978-0-7556-3981-6 hard ¥18,733.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-0-7556-3982-3 paper ¥6,337.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99

Digital Stimulation considers the subject of intimacy, including sexual intimacy, between humans and machines, both in the imagination and in reality. In fiction and in fact, social robots are frequently gendered as women. It is therefore important to address their potential to reinforce, or perhaps to reinvent, existing attitudes and expectations about gender, including nonbinary and transgender identities, as well as race, class, disability, and other aspects of identity. This book provides an overview of the history of robots as depicted in popular culture, especially science fiction, as well as an overview of the history of sex toys, including blow up dolls and lifelike sex dolls. This invites an examination of the current and ongoing development of robots designed explicitly for intimate engagement with humans. The book explores positive (and often overly optimistic) attitudes, as well as negative (and often overly sensational) attitudes about the potential impact of robots and artificial intelligence. Finally, Digital Stimulation considers the possible ways in which future robot design might consciously disrupt the limitations of a binary system of gender, sex, and sexuality.

Barras, Abby, Transgender and Non-Binary People in Everyday Sport: A Trans Feminist Approach to Improving Inclusion. (Gender and Sexualities in Psychology) 200 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-903>
ISBN 978-1-03-247299-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-246617-0 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This formative work discusses transgender people's inclusion in everyday sport in the UK. It adopts a trans feminist approach to explore pivotal topics regarding the barriers to participation faced by transgender and non-binary people.Offering a critical perspective on the current landscape surrounding this topic, the book draws from insightful interviews conducted by the author with eighteen transgender and non-binary individuals. The author uses a critical social science approach to explore the heteropatriarchal construction of sport in the modern industrialised west, and how this has formed the backdrop to the continuing discrimination towards, many athletes, not just those who are transgender. Using firsthand perspectives, it focuses on the three themes of the sporting body, sporting spaces and sporting communities. It investigates why conversations about fairness and safety regarding transgender athletes have become so polarised within the media, and the significance of taking a trans feminist approach to reducing barriers in sport. Lastly, the book's key findings initiate a dialogue on the importance of gender affirmation in sport, the value of supportive teammates/role models, and how sporting spaces can be reimagined to promote greater inclusion for all.Transgender and Non-Binary People in Everyday Sport is a crucial resource for researchers, academics, and students in the field of social science, sports organisations, policy makers, third-sector organisations, activists and other related disciplines. The book will also be a compelling read for anyone with an interest in improving inclusion for transgender people in everyday sport, and learn more about how trans feminism can achieve this.

Forsyth, Jacky / Roberts, Claire-Marie (eds.), Women's Football. 312 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-908>
ISBN 978-1-03-246488-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-246485-5 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

The global increase in viewership of and participation in women's football means that, to continue with this growth, we need to appreciate the specific scientific and health issues that determine successful performance for women. Women's Football provides a thorough, yet straightforward and accessible, analysis of the key physiological, biomechanical and social-psychological issues that can be applied to achieve women's footballing development.This cutting-edge text puts developing elite women footballers at the front and centre of its core aim, through the delivery of evidence-based, scientific information focusing on best practice. As such, each chapter is co-written, where possible, by a scholar and a practitioner or player (e.g., coach, footballer), meaning the scientific principles and research presented within are translated clearly into practice.Women's Football is essential reading for anyone who is involved with the game, including footballers themselves, as well as strength and conditioning coaches, physiotherapists, medics, nutritionists, sport psychologists, sports scientists, coaches, coach developers, technical directors, general managers, governing body personnel and club owners, from grassroots to elite level. The book is also invaluable to students and academics in sport and exercise, who are studying this topic.

Wilson, Wylin D., Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health. (Religion and Social Transformation) 224 pp. 2025:1 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-92>
ISBN 978-1-4798-1720-7 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-1723-8 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Offers Bioethics a bold approach to redress its failing Black women Black people, and especially Black women, suffer and die from diseases at much higher rates than their white counterparts. The vast majority of these health disparities are not attributed to behavioral differences or biology, but to the pervasive devaluation of Black bodies. Womanist Bioethics addresses this crisis from a bioethical standpoint. It offers a critique of mainstream bioethics as having embraced the perspective of its mainly white, male progenitors, limiting the extent to which it is positioned to engage the issues that particularly affect vulnerable populations. This book makes the provocative but essential case that because African American women- across almost every health indicator- fare worse than others. We must not only include, but center, Black women's experiences and voices in bioethics discourse and practice. To this end, Womanist Bioethics develops the first specifically womanist form of bioethics, focused on the diverse vulnerabilities and multiple oppressions that women of color face. This innovative womanist bioethics is grounded in the Black Christian prophetic tradition, based on the ideas that God does not condone oppression and that it is imperative to defend those who are vulnerable. It also draws on womanist theology and Black liberation theology, which take similar stances. At its core, the volume offers a new, broad-based approach to bioethics that is meant as a corrective to mainstream bioethics' privileging of white, particularly male, experiences, and it outlines ways in which hospitals, churches, and the larger community can better respond to the healthcare needs of Black women.

Lingam, Lakshmi / Mkhwanazi, Nolwazi (eds.), Digital Technologies and Gendered Realities. 248 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-924>
ISBN 978-0-367-47969-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

The book explores the varying experiences and engagement of youth with smartphones and digital technologies in India and South Africa. It examines the process of meaning-making (identity construction) garnered through smartphone technology - specifically relating to notions of love, sex, and sexuality.A keen reappraisal of the smartphone revolution, the essays underline the constant negotiations between technology and social institutions such as, family, schools, colleges\universities, religious groups, traditional community leaders, media, police, law, and governments. The volume looks at new forms of digital-based surveillance on girls, women and gender minorities and maps the responses of state, civil society and women's movements in tackling the divergent narratives of freedom versus control; empowerment versus violence. It specifically looks at how concepts of 'privacy', 'agency', 'autonomy' and 'consent' are being framed in the legal arena regarding young women, which may or may not be empowering of their agency and choices.Challenging notions about gender, technology and society, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of sociology and social anthropology, politics, gender studies, and Global South studies.

Allan, Jonathan A, Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin. (The Exquisite Corpse) 352 pp. 2024:11 (U. Regina Pr., CN) <725-933>
ISBN 978-1-77940-031-4 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-77940-030-7 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Uncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the foreskin and its position in contemporary Anglo-American culture. From language to art, from religion to medicine and public health, Uncut is a provocative book that asks us to ask ourselves what we know and don't know about this seemingly small piece of skin. The "uncut" penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents of male infants worry about whether or not the foreskin should be removed so their little boy can grow up to "look like dad" or to avoid imagined bullying in the locker room. Medical experts and public health organizations argue back and forth about whether circumcision is medically necessary, while "intactivists" advocate that removing an infant's foreskin without their consent is mutilation. Drawing on all these threads, Jonathan A. Allan leads us through the history and cultural construction of the foreskin-from Michelangelo's David to parenting manuals, from nineteenth-century panic over masturbation to foreskin restoration-to ultimately ask: what is the future of the foreskin?

Anheier, Helmut K. / Markovic, Darinka, Gender Equality and the Cultural Economy: Comparative Perspectives. (Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries) 282 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-934>
ISBN 978-0-367-85715-8 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-284811-2 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

The status of women in the creative and cultural industries remains precarious. This comparative analysis provides insights from seven key economies to help understand progress toward gender equality in culture and the arts and the broader cultural economy.With empirical and policy analysis spanning Europe and the US, the authors investigate the extent to which gender equality has entered the mainstream along dimensions of leadership, access and awards, pay and pension gaps, work-life balance, and the monitoring of gender equality. While many of the structural barriers have been erased, countries differ significantly in how much gender equality has been achieved in the creative economy, and how much female talent is lost and unrecognized.This book is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners across the human and social sciences, especially those involved with arts management and the creative or cultural economy more broadly.

Nguyen, Mimi Thi, The Promise of Beauty. 312 pp. 2024:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <725-966>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2676-1 hard ¥24,223.- (税込) US$ 107.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3097-3 paper ¥6,495.- (税込) US$ 28.95

In The Promise of Beauty, Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastrophe. Nguyen conceptualizes beauty, which she observes that we turn to in emergencies and times of destruction, as a tool to identify and bridge the discrepancy between the world as it is and what it ought to be. Drawing widely from aesthetic and critical theories, Nguyen outlines how beauty-or its lack-points to the conditions that must exist for it to flourish. She notes that an absence of beauty becomes both a political observation and a call to action to transform the conditions of the situation so as to replicate, preserve, or repair beauty. The promise of beauty can then engender a critique of social arrangements and political structures that would set the foundations for its possibility and presence. In this way, Nguyen highlights the role of beauty in inspiring action toward a more just world.

Paquet, Lili / Williamson, Rosemary (eds.), True Crime and Women: Writers, Readers, and Representations. (Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media) 208 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-968>
ISBN 978-1-03-252067-4 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-252068-1 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Bringing new research from true crime writers, scholars, and media practitioners around the world, this book offers fresh perspectives on how women read, write, and are portrayed in true crime stories across different platforms, including documentaries, podcasts, and TikToks.The genre of true crime is flourishing, and it is overwhelmingly consumed by women. Despite this, there is much we do not know about how women consume true crime and are represented in true crime stories of various kinds. This edited volume helps to fill this gap in our knowledge. Across 10 chapters and using a variety of study methods, including creative practice, interviews, surveys, archival research, and case studies, the book reveals the multifaceted ways that true crime matters to women and suggests areas of future research. It also offers new insights on a diverse range of topics, such as racial identities, fraudsters, activism, victimization, and deviance, as well as highlights major cases from past to present which have influenced criminal justice responses.True Crime and Women is intended for researchers and students of criminology, literary studies, gender studies, media and journalism studies, and rhetorical studies, as well as media practitioners and writers.

Weir, Lucy, Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury. (Routledge Research in Gender and Art) 218 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-979>
ISBN 978-1-03-202709-8 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book is an ambitious and expansive examination of the visual language of self-injury in performance art from the 1960s to the present.Inspired by the gendered nature of discussion around self-harm, the book challenges established readings of risk-taking and self-injury in global performance practice. The interdisciplinary methodology draws from art history and sociology to provide a new critical analysis of the relationship between masculinity and self-inflicted injury. Based upon interviews with a range of artists around the world, it offers an innovative understanding of the diverse meanings behind self-injury in performance, and delves into the gendered coding of self-harming bodies. Individual chapters examine the work of Ron Athey, Guenter Brus, Wafaa Bilal, Franko B, Andre Stitt, Pyotr Pavlensky, and Yang Zhichao, offering a new perspective on the forms and functions of self-injury in performance art.The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, performance studies, gender studies, and cultural studies.

イスラーム研究における女性の問題
Ali, Kecia, The Woman Question in Islamic Studies. 216 pp. 2024:9 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-98>
ISBN 978-0-691-18359-6 hard ¥22,427.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-0-691-26184-3 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95

The interconnected ways that sexism functions in academic Islamic studies and how to shift professional norms toward parityDespite remarkable shifts in the demographics of Islamic studies in recent decades, the field continues to be dominated by men, who often relegate other scholars and their work-particularly research on gender-to its periphery, while treating subfields in which men predominate as more rigorous and central. In The Woman Question in Islamic Studies, Kecia Ali explores the interconnected ways that sexism functions in academic Islamic studies. Examining publications, citations, curricula, and media representations, Ali finds that, despite the growth and depth of scholarship on Islam and gender, men continue to overlook women's scholarship, even in work that purports to discuss gender issues. Moreover, media and social media dynamics make talking about Islam and Muslims for broader audiences especially fraught for scholars who are not men, particularly when the topic is gender or sexuality.Combining broad surveys with more focused analyses of a smaller set of texts, Ali shows that textbooks and syllabi continue to exclude women as historical actors and scholars and to marginalize gender and sexuality as subject matter. Finally, she provides a "Beginner's Guide to Eradicating Sexism in Islamic Studies," offering practical strategies to help scholars avoid common pitfalls in their own work and contribute to broader professional transformations.

Al Obeidli, Noura, Emirati Women Journalists: Bargaining with Patriarchy in Search of Equality. (Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies) 152 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <725-981>
ISBN 978-1-03-278541-7 hard ¥14,118.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99

This book presents a rare investigation of the media landscape and gender dynamics in Emirati newsrooms, with a socio-cultural focus on the influence of tribal patriarchalism in determining Emirati women's role as news-makers.Shedding light on the stories of 40 Emirati and Arab expat journalists, including pioneer Emirati women journalists, the book offers insight into how these journalists construct gender differences and identity, and how this influences their everyday attitudes, conversations, routines, and journalistic practises. The empirical study is supplanted with ethnographic explanations of the newsroom norms and journalistic practises from the author, who used participant observation inside two major news centres in Abu Dhabi and Dubai to understand the socio-cultural factors that shape the lives of Emirati and Arab expat journalists, their thoughts and beliefs about the media environment in the Emirates, and their opinions on the authoritarian political control, censorship, and the outdated media law.This book will interest students and scholars of journalism and journalistic practice, media policy, international journalism, gender studies and Middle East studies

Balkwill, Stephanie, The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century. 272 pp. 2024:8 (U. California Pr., US) <725-633>
ISBN 978-0-520-40181-5 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the time of her death, she had transformed herself into Empress Dowager Ling, one of the most powerful politicians of her age and one of the first of many Buddhist women to wield incredible influence in dynastic East Asia. In this book, Stephanie Balkwill documents the Empress Dowager's rise to power and life on the throne against the broader world of imperial China under the rule of the Northern Wei dynasty, a foreign people from Inner Asia who built their capital deep in the Chinese heartland. Building on largely untapped Buddhist materials, Balkwill shows that the life and rule of the Empress Dowager is a larger story of the reinvention of religious, ethnic, and gender norms in a rapidly changing multicultural society. The Women Who Ruled China recovers the voices of those left out of the mainstream historical record, painting a compelling portrait of medieval Chinese society reinventing itself under the Empress Dowager's leadership.

Jiang, Quanbao / Li, Shuzhuo, Gender Imbalance and Marriage Squeeze in China. (China Perspectives) 240 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-636>
ISBN 978-1-03-256096-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of China's unbalanced sex ratio at birth and marriage market, and the implications of these phenomena for population development and families.China's persistently high sex ratio at birth (SRB) since the early 1980s has led to serious gender imbalance and male marriage squeeze. After examining the quality of existing data on SRB, the authors provide their estimates of the sex-selective abortion rate, describe the trends and geographical patterns in SRB, and disaggregate changes in SRB by birth order and province. Special attention is given to the number and proportion of missing girls between 1980 and 2010. Based on the quantitative analyses, the book projects the implications of the severe gender imbalance for China's population development and the future dynamics of the marriage market, including trends in age at first marriage, the proportion of never-married, the age structure of surplus males, and the life cycle of these families.The book will appeal to scholars and students of demography, sociology, and China studies, especially those interested in China's population and contemporary society.

Merkel-Hess, Kate, Women and Their Warlords: Domesticating Militarism in Modern China. 264 pp. 2024:8 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-641>
ISBN 978-0-226-83430-6 hard ¥10,098.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Explores the complex history and legacy of elite wives, concubines, and daughters of warlords in twentieth-century China. In Women and Their Warlords, historian Kate Merkel-Hess examines the lives and personalities of the female relatives of the military rulers who governed regions of China from 1916 to 1949. Posing for candid photographs and sitting for interviews, these women did not merely advance male rulers' agendas. They advocated for social and political changes, gave voice to feminist ideas, and shaped how the public perceived them. As the first publicly political partners in modern China, the wives and concubines of Republican-era warlords changed how people viewed elite women's engagement in politics. Drawing on popular media sources, including magazine profiles and gossip column items, Merkel-Hess draws unexpected connections between militarism, domestic life, and state power in this insightful new account of gender and authority in twentieth-century China.

Jeong-Mi, Park, The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea. (Asia Pacific Modern 20) 273 pp. 2024:8 (U. California Pr., US) <725-652>
ISBN 978-0-520-39645-6 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-39646-3 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95

The State's Sexuality uncovers how the lives and work of women engaged in prostitution, long considered the most abased members of society, have been strategically intertwined with the lofty purpose of building South Korea's postcolonial nation-state. Through a complicated, contradictory patchwork of laws and regulations, which Park Jeong-Mi conceptualizes as a "toleration-regulation regime," the South Korean state did not merely exclude sex workers from ordinary citizenship; it also mobilized them for national security, national development, and the making of a gendered citizenry. In the process, the newly independent state was constructed, augmented, and consolidated. Sex workers often protested such draconian policies and sometimes utilized state apparatuses to get recognition as citizens. Based on expansive, meticulous archival research and sophisticated interpretation of historical records and women's voices, Park rewrites the dynamic history of South Korea from 1945 to the present through the lens of prostitution.

Salvo, Sophie, Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century. 272 pp. 2024:10 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-71>
ISBN 978-0-226-82770-4 hard ¥25,806.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-82772-8 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Enriches contemporary debates about gender and language by probing the histories of the philosophy and sciences of language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from understudied ethnographic and scientific works to canonical literature and philosophy, Sophie Salvo uncovers the prehistory of the inextricability of gender and language. Taking German discourses on language as her focus, she argues that we are not the inventors but, rather, the inheritors and adapters of the notion that gender and language are interrelated. Particularly during the long nineteenth century, ideas about sexual differences shaped how language was understood, classified, and analyzed. As Salvo explains, philosophers asserted the patriarchal origins of language, linguists investigated "women's languages" and grammatical gender, and literary Modernists imagined "feminine" sign systems, and in doing so they not only deemed sex-based divisions to be necessary categories of language but also produced a plethora of gendered tropes and fictions, which they used both to support their claims and delimit their disciplines. Articulating Difference charts new territory, revealing how gendered conceptions of language make possible the misogynistic logic of exclusion that underlies arguments claiming, for example, that women cannot be great orators or writers. While Salvo focuses on how male scholars aligned language study with masculinity, she also uncovers how women responded, highlighting the contributions of understudied nineteenth-century works on language that women wrote even as they were excluded from academic opportunities.

Demirbas, Goekben, Gender, Class, and Respectability in Leisure: Understanding Women's 'Free Time Activities' in Modern Turkey. (Routledge Critical Leisure Studies) 216 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-710>
ISBN 978-1-03-265017-3 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book interrogates the role of gender and class in shaping women's everyday leisure practices. Drawing on empirical research in urban Turkey, the book explores how leisure is perceived and practised by women within their communities. The book examines the relationship of women's leisure to their labour, women's access to and uses of public leisure spaces, and the dynamics of their everyday sociability within their neighbourhoods. It is the first book to apply Skegg's concept of 'respectability' - socially recognised judgments and standards which label the 'right' practices, that hold morality and power in a given context - as a theoretical tool with which to understand leisure in a country in which modernisation and Westernisation have been a central dynamic shaping political, social and cultural life. This analysis reveals that two measures of gendered respectability - reproductive work and the honour code - and how they mediate with the classed measures of respectability, are essential to understanding women's leisure practices in the Turkish context. The book argues that these interactions are likely shared in many Global South countries, including Islamic societies, and therefore that this analysis shines important new light on women's experiences more broadly, and on the social, political and cultural dynamics of traditional social structures in a modernising world. This book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in leisure studies, women's studies, sociology, cultural studies or Middle East studies.

Ferguson, Susanna, Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought. 336 pp. 2024:9 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-713>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4006-1 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) US$ 130.00
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