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

Grau Grau, Marc / las Heras Maestro, Mireia et al. (eds.), Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality: Healthcare, Social Policy, and Work Perspectives. (Contributions to Management Science) 325 pp. 2021:11 (Springer, GW) <664-959>
ISBN 978-3-030-75644-4 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This aim of this open access book is to launch an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement. By integrating perspective from three sectors-Health, Social Policy, and Work in Organizations-the book offers a novel perspective on the benefits of engaged fatherhood for men, for families, and for gender equality. The chapters are crafted to engaged broad audiences, including policy makers and organizational leaders, healthcare practitioners and fellow scholars, as well as families and their loved ones.

Haidar, Julieta / Keune, Maarten (eds.), Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism. (Ilera Publication Series) 288 pp. 2021:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <664-960>
ISBN 978-1-80220-512-1 hard ¥29,972.- (税込) GB￡ 104.00 *

This engaging and timely book provides an in-depth analysis of work and labour relations within global platform capitalism with a specific focus on digital platforms that organise labour processes, known as labour platforms. Well-respected contributors thoroughly examine both online and offline platforms, their distinct differences and the important roles they play for both large transnational companies and those with a smaller global reach. Chapters explore how labour platforms have become controversial and ambiguous as they increasingly appear to provide important sources of work and income globally but conversely raise concerns over exploitation of workers and the lack of legal protection provided to them. Offering a global perspective and including studies from different continents, the book covers three key areas: platform work in the wider context of contemporary capitalism, labour platforms from an international division of labour perspective, and labour processes and relations. This informative and thought-provoking book is an excellent resource for scholars with a particular interest in political economy, the sociology of work, labour relations and labour policies. Policymakers and regulators looking to understand how to effectively apply existing regulations for platform workers when creating new business models will also find this an invigorating read.

Keisu, Britt-Inger / Tafvelin, Susanne / Brodin, H. (eds.), Gendered Norms at Work: New Perspectives on Work Environment and Health. (Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being) 217 pp. 2021:8 (Springer, GW) <664-966>
ISBN 978-3-030-77733-3 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

This edited volume discusses how deeply entrenched gender norms in work environments, even in welfare economies, can affect women's health in an adverse way. The volume provides a broad overview of contributing factors. It derives specific answers from case studies in Sweden, a welfare state where women's labour market participation is very high, but where horizontal and vertical gender segregation in work is also one of the highest in the world. Women tend to work in occupations that are heavily dominated by women. An issue in women-dominated occupations is a considerably higher sickness absence than men, with the highest rates being in human service and care occupations. This volume adds to the literature on health and wellbeing in women-dominated professions and workplaces through studying the work environment, organizational changes, digitalization, threats, violence and conflict, and work conditions that could contribute to healthier workplaces for women. In addition, it pointsto the need for deeper gender analysis in work norms, and using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. It is of interest to social and behavioural scientists studying work, gender and health, as well as HR professionals and policy makers.

Walker, Marquita R. (ed.), Female Voices from the Worksite: The Impact of Hidden Bias against Working Women across the Globe. 262 pp. 2020:11 (Lexington Books, US) <664-984>
ISBN 978-1-79362-874-9 hard ¥27,601.- (税込) US$ 123.00 *

This collection analyzes women's narratives on the workplace. These narratives speak to the daily struggles women face in the workforce, such as inflexible and long work hours, masculine workplace cultures, employers' stereotypical attitudes, and the absence of work-life balance initiatives. Viewed from a sociological perspective, the authors emphasize the reoccurring themes of devaluation, exploitation, and dehumanization of female workers resulting from unconscious or implicit bias and which directly impacts women's quality of life.

Argys, Laura M. / Averett, Susan L., Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know. (What Everyone Needs to Know) 256 pp. 2021:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <664-950>
ISBN 978-0-19-009339-6 hard ¥16,605.- (税込) US$ 74.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-009338-9 paper ¥3,718.- (税込) *

An accessible overview of the power of women in the economy and the obstacles they face Women are joining the workforce in increasing numbers, making inroads as entrepreneurs and leaders, acquiring more education, marrying later, and having fewer children - all trends consistent with spending a far greater fraction of their adult lives in the labor force. And yet, even as women break the glass ceiling and challenge gender and sexual norms, they are told they need to "lean in" and powerful movements like #TimesUP and #MeToo are still necessary to expose and overcome endemic discrimination, exploitation, harassment, and worse. Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) provides an essential and accessible introduction to the significance of women in the economy and the obstacles they face in claiming equal status. Economists Laura M. Argys and Susan L. Averett tackle timely topics like the wage gap, "women's work," and gendered workplace interactions in an easy-to-read question and answer format. The book focuses on the choices people make and how these are framed by institutional impediments that create inequalities in the options available to men and women. Argys and Averett highlight how the experience of being a woman in the labor market varies, sometimes dramatically, by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. They also explore how living in cities, towns, and rural areas influence choices and outcomes. Covering a range of topics, from breastfeeding and work, earnings penalties for women who have taken time away from work, and childcare while women work, to the gender pay gap and the distinctive challenges women face as they age and transition to retirement, this book answers the essential questions surrounding women in the workforce.

Rush Burkey, Chris / Braswell, Michael C. et al., Sexual Abuse Within the Church: Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention. 126 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) <664-516>
ISBN 978-0-367-51938-4 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-51306-1 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book takes a holistic approach by providing insight into the behavior and nature of sex offenders within the church. The text covers various types of sex offenders as well as their criminal propensities and methods of acquiring victims. Warning signs associated with sex crimes within the church are explained as well as security measures and prevention strategies that church leaders and criminal justice professionals can utilize to minimize risk to congregants. Discussion questions and case study scenarios are provided to allow the reader to examine relevant issues and explore a range of potential solutions and interventions.This comprehensive book is intended for criminal justice academicians who teach courses on sex crimes and sex offenders, criminal justice agents (police and investigators), seminary professors and students, and clergy members. It can also assist security teams, church board members, leaders, and teachers in developing intervention and prevention strategies.

Maurits, Alexander / Ljungberg, J. / Sidenvall, E. (eds.), Cultures in Conflict: Religion, History and Gender in Northern Europe c. 1800-2000. 220 pp. 2021:5 (P. Lang, SZ) <664-476>
ISBN 978-3-631-82986-8 hard ¥17,506.- (税込) SFR 71.05 *

This book includes studies of main conflict areas in modern Western societies where religion has been a central element, ranging from popular movements and narratives of opposition to challenges of religious satire and anti-clerical critique. Special attention is given to matters of politics and gender. With this theme, it provides a useful guide to conflict areas in modern European religious history.

Frick, Deborah, Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women's Visionary Writings. (Lettre) 156 S. 2021:10 (Transcript, GW) <664-414>
ISBN 978-3-8376-5689-3 paper ¥8,994.- (税込) EUR 37.00

In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Carey, Anne Wentworth and Katherine Chidley, in order to investigate how these women authorised themselves in their writings and what topoi they use to find a voice and place of their own. This comparison, furthermore, and the strikingly similar topoi that are used by the female visionaries not only allows to question and examine topics such as authority, authorship, images of voice and body; it also breaks down preconceived and artificial boundaries and definitions.

Gaddini, Katie, The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church. 272 pp. 2022:3 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <664-417>
ISBN 978-0-231-19674-1 hard ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Evangelical Christianity is often thought of as oppressive to women. The #MeToo era, when many women hit a breaking point with rampant sexism, has also reached evangelical communities. Yet more than thirty million women in the United States still identify as evangelical. Why do so many women remain in male-dominated churches that marginalize them, and why do others leave? In each case, what does this cost them?The Struggle to Stay is an intimate and insightful portrait of single women's experiences in evangelical churches. Drawing on unprecedented access to churches in the United States and the United Kingdom, Katie Gaddini relates the struggles of four women, interwoven with her own story of leaving behind a devout faith. She connects these personal narratives with rigorous analysis of Christianity and politics in both countries, and contextualizes them through interviews with more than fifty other evangelical women. Gaddini grapples with the complexities of obedience and resistance for women within a patriarchal religion against the backdrop of a culture war. Her exploration of how women choose to leave or remain in environments that constrain them is nuanced and personal, telling powerful stories of faith, community, isolation, and loss. Bringing together meticulous research and deep empathy, The Struggle to Stay provides a revelatory account of the private burdens that evangelical women bear.

Gavin, Helen (ed.), Women and the Abuse of Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. (Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions) 244 pp. 2022:1 (Emerald, UK) <664-3872>
ISBN 978-1-80043-335-9 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *

Do witches and witchcraft represent our understanding of how women who threaten the patriarchy are demonised? If to be born female is to be born deviant, how deviant is a body transformed to be female? There are few explorations of whether power exercised by women is as robust as that exercised by men, and therefore whether it is more open to abusive use. This fascinating anthology examines these questions through the lens of literary critique, history, criminology, and psychology to explore another representation of women - in relation to how they abuse power, or how they react when they are the victims of that abuse. With themes ranging from the personal consideration of female bodies, to the supernatural hidden realm, to the public condemnation of women who fall foul of either the law or of a male-dominated world, this collection of interdisciplinary essays provides an in-depth look at the fate of women who abuse or are abused by power.

Goffman, Carolyn McCue, Mary Mills Patrick's Cosmopolitan Mission and the Constantinople Woman's College. 244 pp. 2021:1 (Lexington Books, US) <664-3875>
ISBN 978-1-4985-9285-7 hard ¥26,254.- (税込) US$ 117.00 *

Mary Mills Patrick's Constantinople Woman's College was one of the most influential institutions of higher learning for women in the Middle East in the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. Patrick arrived in the 1870s to evangelize, but she gradually distanced herself from Christian proselytism in order to create a "cosmopolitan" college for all Ottoman women. Patrick was president of the Constantinople Woman's College for 34 years, protecting the institution through the Balkan Wars, World War One, the British occupation of Constantinople, the demise of the Ottoman Empire, and the founding of the Turkish Republic. Just as the late Ottoman Empire underwent extraordinary changes, so did Patrick transform herself and the Constantinople College to meet the demands of a twentieth-century Muslim state, ultimately sacrificing her "cosmopolitan," heterogeneous student body to an ethnically homogeneous one that reflected the newly racialized nationalism of the Turkish Republic. Mary Mills Patrick's Cosmopolitan Mission and the Constantinople Woman's College explores Patrick's career from the 1870s to the 1930s, tracking her personal religious struggle and her professional transformation from Protestant evangelist, to feminist educator, to advocate for Muslim women, to, finally, supporter of Turkish nationalism.

Hart, Amy, Fourierist Communities of Reform: The Social Networks of Nineteenth-Century Female Reformers. (Palgrave Studies in Utopianism) 248 pp. 2021:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <664-3880>
ISBN 978-3-030-68355-9 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This book explores the intersections between nineteenth-century social reform movements in the United States. Delving into the little-known history of women who joined income-sharing communities during the 1840s, this book uses four community case studies to examine social activism within communal environments. In a period when women faced legal and social restrictions ranging from coverture to slavery, the emergence of residential communities designed by French utopian writer, Charles Fourier, introduced spaces where female leadership and social organization became possible. Communitarian women helped shape the ideological underpinnings of some of the United States' most enduring and successful reform efforts, including the women's rights movement, the abolition movement, and the creation of the Republican Party. Dr. Hart argues that these movements were intertwined, with activists influencing multiple organizations within unexpected settings.

Harvey, Katherine, The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages. 320 pp. 2021:10 (Reaktion Books, UK) <664-3881>
ISBN 978-1-78914-489-5 hard ¥5,764.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00 *

An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people. The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much-or too little-sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about who they could have sex with, in what way, how often, and even when, and could be harshly punished for getting it wrong. Other experiences are more familiar. Like us, medieval people faced challenges in finding a suitable partner or trying to get pregnant (or trying not to). They also struggled with many of the same social issues, such as whether prostitution should be legalized. Above all, they shared our fondness for dirty jokes and erotic images. By exploring their sex lives, the book brings ordinary medieval people to life, revealing details of their most personal thoughts and experiences. Ultimately, it provides us with an important and intimate connection to the past.

Healy, Roisin / Barry, Gearoid (eds.), Family Histories of World War II: Survivors and Descendants. 256 pp. 2021:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <664-3882>
ISBN 978-1-350-20194-1 hard ¥20,174.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-20195-8 paper ¥6,337.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99 *

Expertly contextualized by two leading historians in the field, this unique collection offers 13 accounts of individual experiences of World War II from across Europe. It sees contributors describe their recent ancestors' experiences ranging from a Royal Air Force pilot captured in Yugoslavia and a Spanish communist in the French resistance to two young Jewish girls caught in the siege of Leningrad. Contributors draw upon a variety of sources, such as contemporary diaries and letters, unpublished postwar memoirs, video footage as well as conversations in the family setting. These chapters attest to the enormous impact that war stories of family members had on subsequent generations. The story of a father who survived Nazi captivity became a lesson in resilience for a daughter with personal difficulties, whereas the story of a grandfather who served the Nazis became a burden that divided the family. At its heart, Family Histories of World War II concerns human experiences in supremely difficult times and their meaning for subsequent generations.

Hewer, Rebecca MF, Sex-Work, Prostitution and Policy: A Feminist Discourse Analysis. (Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy) 292 pp. 2021:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <664-3885>
ISBN 978-3-030-74953-8 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

The topic of sex-work/prostitution has long generated contentious debate, particularly within the broad church of feminism. This antagonism is reflected in UK policy debates, which are further complicated by their enactment in spaces of neoliberal hegemony. This book analyses the plurality of narratives which contribute to Westminster sex-work/prostitution policy debates and subsequently seeks to situate them within the social and political conditions of their production. Hewer illustrates that contemporary sex-work/prostitution debates are constituted through a complex entanglement of ideologically hybrid perspectives, which variously challenge and ingrain extant relations of power. Moreover, by drawing on a range of feminist and other critical social theories, Hewer offers a way to think differently about both sex-work/prostitution debates and sex-work/prostitution itself. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students from across the social sciences with an interest in the language used to talk about sex-work and prostitution in policy debates.

Howlett, Caitlin, Against Sex Education: Pedagogy, Sex Work, and State Violence. (Radical Politics and Education) 184 pp. (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <664-3889>
ISBN 978-1-350-17844-1 hard ¥28,820.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *

?Luxemburg war nie eine Kolonialmacht“, verkundete 1960 der damalige luxemburgische Aussenminister Eugene Schaus im Parlament. Tatsachlich hat das kleine Binnenland nie eigene Kolonien gehabt. Hinter dieser Fassade war das Grossherzogtum jedoch tief in die kolonialen Projekte seiner europaischen Nachbarn verstrickt. Luxemburger*innen trieben in den Kolonien Handel, missionierten, reisten oder forschten. Auch auf staatlicher Ebene stand Luxemburg nicht ausserhalb des europaischen Kolonialismus, sondern war durch aktive Unterstutzung und Mitarbeit Teil der kolonialen Welt. Dieses Buch ist die erste allgemeine Einfuhrung dieser Art, die sich speziell auf Luxemburg fokussiert. Es fragt nach der Moeglichkeit, dem Inhalt und den Konsequenzen einer luxemburgischen Kolonialgeschichte.

Johanssen, Jacob, Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition. 248 pp. 2021:10 (Routledge, UK) <664-3891>
ISBN 978-0-367-46866-8 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-46865-1 paper ¥9,219.- (税込) GB￡ 31.99 *

Nominated for the 2022 Gradiva (R) Award! This book presents the first in-depth study of online misogyny and the manosphere from a psychoanalytic perspective.The author argues that the men of the manosphere present contradictory thoughts, desires and fantasies about women which include but also go beyond misogyny. They are in a state of dis/inhibition: torn between (un)conscious forces and fantasies which erupt and are defended against. Dis/inhibition shows itself in self-victimization and defensive apathy as well as toxic agency and symbolic power and expresses itself in desire for and hatred of other bodies. The text draws on the psychoanalytic thinkers Klaus Theweleit, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Jessica Benjamin and Wilhelm Reich to present detailed analyses of the communities within the so-called manosphere, including incels, Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), alt-right YouTubers and NoFap users. Drawing on wider discussions about the status of sexuality in contemporary neoliberal technoculture since the sexual revolution of the late 1960s, it illuminates how sexuality, racism and images of the white male body shape the fantasies and affects of many men on the internet and beyond.Integrating a unique theoretical framework to help understand how today's increase in online misogyny relates to the alt-right and fascism, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere is an important resource for academics in a variety of fields including psychoanalysis, media and communication studies, internet studies, masculinity research and more.

Kaler, Amy, Gender in Society Reader. 424 pp. 2021:10 (Oxford U. Pr., CN) <664-3897>
ISBN 978-0-19-540143-1 paper ¥21,611.- (税込) GB￡ 74.99 *

The adapter of the successful The Gendered Society Reader branches out on her own to explore the intersections of gender and other important aspects of Canadian society including race, inequality, sexuality, indigeneity, politics, and the economy. With brand new readings and engaging pedagogy, this new book provides a uniquely Canadian focus on the sociology of gender.

Key, Aidan, Trans Children in Today's Schools. 240 pp. 2022:8 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <664-3900>
ISBN 978-0-19-088654-7 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Supporting transgender children in school means far more than deciding which bathroom they use or on which sports team they play Schools across the nation are seeing an increasing presence of transgender students and many school leaders, teachers, and community stakeholders feel they have nowhere to turn for resources or guidance for what can be a volatile, confusing, and controversial subject. The parents of transgender children, who are themselves urgently looking for advice and support, often feel thrust into an adversarial position as they become advocates for the safety, wellbeing, acceptance, and happiness of their child. The purpose of this book is to move beyond the unproductive and polarizing debates that occur over which bathroom/locker room they should use, on which sports team they should participate, and whether or not they are a threat to the safety of other students. We can't move beyond these debates until we respectfully consider and address the factors that contribute to this contention in the first place. Aidan Key masterfully cuts through the misinformation and distractions to get at the only issues that truly matter - ensuring our children, ALL of our children - can count on a safe and welcoming learning environment. Trans Children in Today's Schools provides an understanding of the internal and external variables that a trans child navigates as they explore their gender identity and the challenges experienced by these children and their families. Key explores the barriers encountered by schools as they attempt to create gender-inclusive environments, including the resistance of a misinformed society whose only framework of gender is one rigidly set in an only-male/only-female context. Readers will come away with manageable, step-by-step pathways to support and include trans youth in our schools and communities. The book places these ideas - and the youth who embody them - in context within a society whose understanding and expectations of gender norms are at the brink of a paradigm shift.

Laurie, Timothy / Stark, Hannah, The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures. 87 pp. 2021:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <664-3903>
ISBN 978-3-030-71554-0 hard ¥14,582.- (税込) EUR 59.99

The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures explores stories about love that recuperate a vision of intimate life as a resource for creating bonds beyond heterosexual coupledom. This book offers a variety of ethical frames through which to understand changing definitions of love, intimacy, and interdependency in the context of struggles for marriage equality and the increasing recognition of post-nuclear forms of kinship and care. It commits to these post-nuclear arrangements, while pushing beyond the false choice between a politics of collective action and the celebration of deeply personal and incommunicable pleasures. In exploring the vicissitudes of love across contemporary philosophy, politics, film, new media, and literature, The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures develops an original post-sentimental concept of love as a way to explain emergent intimacies and affiliations beyond the binary couple.This book will appeal to academics and postgraduate students across the humanities and social sciences, as well as being a teachable resource for undergraduate students. It will appeal to a wide range of academics and students in literary and film studies, philosophy, gender and sexuality studies, and critical and cultural studies.

Lorber, Judith, The New Gender Paradox: Fragmentation and Persistence of the Binary. 140 pp. 2021:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <664-3907>
ISBN 978-1-5095-4435-6 hard ¥11,432.- (税込) US$ 50.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-4436-3 paper ¥4,475.- (税込) US$ 19.95 *

Today, in Western countries, we are seeing both the fragmentation of the gender binary (the division of the social world into two and only two genders) and its persistence. Multiple genders, gender-neutral pronouns and bathrooms, X designations, and other manifestations of degendering are becoming common, and yet the two-gender structure of our social world persists. Underneath the persistence of the binary and its discriminatory norms and expectations lurks the continuance of men's power and privilege. So there is the continued need to valorize the accomplishments of women, especially those of denigrated groups. This succinct and thoughtful book by one of the world's foremost sociologists of gender shines a light on both sides of this paradox - processes in the fragmentation of gender that are undermining the binary and processes in the performance of gender that reinforce the binary, and the pros and cons of each. The conclusion of the book discusses why we haven't had a gender revolution and how degendering would go a long way in creating gender equality.

Mackay, Finn, Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex. 264 pp. 2021:10 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <664-3909>
ISBN 978-0-7556-0664-1 hard ¥21,615.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-0-7556-0663-4 paper ¥6,913.- (税込) GB￡ 23.99 *

"Thoughtful and often moving." Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars provides important theoretical background and context to the 'gender wars' or 'TERF wars' - the fracture at the forefront of the LGBTQ international conversation. Using queer and female masculinities as a lens, Finn Mackay investigates the current generational shift that is refusing the previous assumed fixity of sex, gender and sexual identity. Transgender and trans rights movements are currently experiencing political backlash from within certain lesbian and lesbian feminist groups, resulting in a situation in which these two minority communities are frequently pitted against one another or perceived as diametrically opposed. Uniquely, Finn Mackay approaches this debate through the context of female masculinity, butch and transmasculine lesbian masculinities. There has been increasing interest in the study of masculinity, influenced by a popular discourse around so-called 'toxic masculinity', the rise of men's rights activism and theory and critical work on Trump's America and the MeToo movement. An increasingly important topic in political science and sociological academia, this book aims to break new ground in the discussion of the politics of gender and identity.

McDonagh, Patrick, Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-93. 240 pp. 2021:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <664-3911>
ISBN 978-1-350-19746-6 hard ¥25,938.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This thematically-arranged study traces the emergence of visible gay and lesbian communities across the Republic of Ireland and their impact on public perceptions of homosexuality. Along the way it explores the critical and hidden activism of lesbian women, the role of rural provincial activists, the importance of interactions with international gay and lesbian organisations and the extent to which HIV and AIDS impacted the gay rights campaign. Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-93 focuses in particular on activists' efforts to engage with the different religious organisations in Ireland, the Trade Union movement, Irish political parties and the media, and how these efforts in turn shaped the strategies and activities of gay and lesbian organisations. McDonagh argues that gay and lesbian activists mounted an effective campaign to improve both the legal and social climate for Ireland's gay and lesbian citizens. In doing so, gay and lesbian individuals were important agents of social and political change in the Republic of Ireland in the period from the 1970s to the early 1990s, particularly in relation to Irish sexual mores. The book also helps to contextualise the changes in perceptions of homosexuality that have taken place in recent years and encourages scholars of Irish history to further explore the contribution of Ireland's LGBTQ+ community in transforming Irish society in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Miniati, Monica, Italian Jewish Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (Italian and Italian American Studies) 374 pp. 2021:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <664-3912>
ISBN 978-3-030-74052-8 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book investigates one of the major issues that runs through the history of Italian Judaism in the aftermath of emancipation: the correlation between integration, seen as the acquisition of citizenship and culture without renouncing Jewish identity, and assimilation, intended as an open refusal of Judaism of any participation in the community. On account of that correlation, identity has become one of the crucial problems in the history of the Italian Jewish community. This volume aims to discuss the setting of construction and formation--the family-- and focuses on women's experiences, specifically. Indeed, women were called through emancipation to ensure the continuity of Jewish religious and cultural heritage. It speaks to the growing interest for Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, and for the research on women's organizations which testify to the strong presence of Jewish women in the emancipation movement. These women formed a sisterhood that fought to obtain rights that were until then only accorded to men, and they were deeply socially engaged in such a way that was crucial to the overall process of the integration of Jews into Italian society.

Moore, Diana, Revolutionary Domesticity in the Italian Risorgimento: Transnational Victorian Feminism, 1850-1890. (Italian and Italian American Studies) 282 pp. 2021:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) * paper 2021 <664-3913>
ISBN 978-3-030-75544-7 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *
ISBN 978-3-030-75547-8 paper ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

"This book examines how a group of transnational British-Italian women affiliated with the exiled patriots of the Italian Left repurposed traditionally feminine activities, such as fundraising, gift-giving, maternity, and memory collection, to make a substantial contribution to Italian Unification and state-building. Through their actions, Mary Chambers, Sara Nathan, Giorgina Saffi, Julia Salis Schwabe, and Jessie White Mario transcended the boundaries of acceptable behavior for middle-class women and participated in the broader female emancipation movement. By drawing attention to their activities, this book reveals how nineteenth-century female activists achieved their most revolutionary goals by using conservative, domestic, or anti-Catholic language. Adding to the growing understanding of the Italian Risorgimento as a transnational phenomenon, it also shows how non-Catholic and non-Italian women participated in the creation and development of the Italian state. Finally, the bookargues for the continuing importance of religion in both politics and philanthropy throughout the nineteenth century."

Nadal, Kevin L. / Scharron-del Rio, Maria (eds.), Queer Psychology: Intersectional Perspectives. 336 pp. 2021:11 (Springer, GW) <664-3916>
ISBN 978-3-030-74145-7 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

Queer Psychology is the first comprehensive book to examine the current state of LGBTQ communities and psychology, through the lenses of both queer theory and Intersectionality theory. Thus, the book describes the experiences of LGBTQ people broadly, while also highlighting the voices of LGBTQ people of color, transgender and gender nonconforming people, those of religious minority groups, immigrants, people with disabilities, and other historically marginalized groups. Each chapter will include an intersectional case example, as well as implications for policy and practice.This book is especially important as there has been an increase in psychology and counseling courses focusing on LGBTQ communities; however, students often learn about LGBTQ-related issues through a White cisgender male normative perspective. The edited volume contains the contributions of leading scholars in LGBTQ psychology, and covers a number of concepts - ranging from identity development to discrimination to health.

O'Connor, Pat / White, Kate (eds.), Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World. (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education) 226 pp. 2021:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <664-3917>
ISBN 978-3-030-69686-3 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring. The editors and contributors argue that organizational resistance to gender equality is the key explanation; reflected in the endorsement of discourses such as excellence, choice, distorted intersectionality, revitalized biological essentialism and gender neutrality. These discourses implicitly and explicitly depict the status quo as appropriate, reasonable and fair: ultimately impeding efforts and attempts to promote gender equality. Drawing on research from around the world, this book explores the limits and possibilities of challenging these harmful discourses, focusing on the state and universities themselves as levers for change. It stresses the importance of institutional transformation, the vital contribution of feminist activists and the importance of women's deceptively 'small victories' in the academy.

Ostman, Heather, American Women Activists and Autobiography: Rhetorical Lives. (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication) 180 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-3918>
ISBN 978-1-03-205076-8 hard ¥41,789.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-205096-6 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

American Women Activists and Autobiography examines the feminist rhetorics that emerge in six very different activists' autobiographies, as they simultaneously tell the stories of unconventional women's lives and manifest the authors' arguments for social and political change, as well as provide blueprints for creating tectonic shifts in American society.Exploring self-narratives by six diverse women at the forefront of radical social change since 1900-Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Dorothy Day, Angela Davis, Mary Crow Dog, and Betty Friedan-the author offers a breadth of perspectives to current dialogues on motherhood, essentialism, race, class, and feminism, and highlights the shifts in situated feminist rhetorics through the course of the last one hundred years.This book is a timely instructional resource for all scholars and graduate students in rhetorical studies, composition, American literature, women's studies, feminist rhetorics, and social justice.

Paiz, Joshua M. / Coda, James E. (eds.), Intersectional Perspectives on LGBTQ+ Issues in Modern Language Teaching and Learning. (Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality) 288 pp. 2021:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <664-3919>
ISBN 978-3-030-76778-5 hard ¥41,323.- (税込) EUR 169.99 *

This edited book examines how sexuality and sexual identity intersect and interact with other identities and subjectivities - including but not limited to race, religion, gender, social class, ableness, and immigrant or refugee status - to form reinforcing webs of privilege and oppression that can have significant implications for language teaching and learning processes. The authors explore how these intersections may influence the teaching of different languages and how pedagogies can be devised to increase equitable access to language learning spaces. They seek to open the conversation on intersectional issues as they relate to sexuality and language teaching and learning, and provide a conversational space where readers can engage with the notion of intersectionality. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of applied linguistics and language education, gender and LGBTQ+ studies, and sociolinguistics, outlining possible future directions for intersectional research.

Popa, Bogdan, De-centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War. (Theory for a Global Age) 256 pp. 2021:11 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <664-3922>
ISBN 978-1-5261-5695-2 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

De-centering queer theory seeks to reorient queer theory to a different conception of bodies and sexuality derived from Eastern European Marxism. The book articulates a contrast between the concept of the productive body, which draws its epistemology from Soviet and avant-garde theorists, and Cold War gender, which is defined as the social construction of the body. The first part of the book concentrates on the theoretical and visual production of Eastern European Marxism, which proposed an alternative version of sexuality to that of western liberalism. In doing so it offers a historical angle to understand the emergence not only of an alternative epistemology, but also of queer theory's vocabulary. The second part of the book provides a Marxist, anti-capitalist archive for queer studies, which often neglects to engage critically with its liberal and Cold War underpinnings.

Potholm, Christian P., Hiding in Plain Sight: Women Warriors throughout Time and Space. 248 pp. 2021:12 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <664-3924>
ISBN 978-1-5381-6271-2 hard ¥22,440.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

Hiding in Plain Sight: Women Warriors throughout Time and Space takes the many, long-standing dimensions of military history, including the various modalities of warfare across cultures and periods, and integrates them with the more recent and very substantial contributions of social history, women's history, black history, feminist theory, LGBTQ community, and other perspectives. By providing an extensive annotated bibliography of the new findings, the work provides the reader with an exciting compilation of new knowledge placed within a longstanding military historical framework, one which provides a broader study and understanding of warfare into which to put the very recent, disparate findings culled from many disciplines. The work reaffirms that women have long been deeply embedded in the practice of warfare, not simply as victims or minor curiosities, but as important actors - tactically, strategically, in combat and directing warfare from afar - just as their male counterparts. The concomitant amalgam also shows that certain types and patterns of warfare such as the defense of castles and fortresses, commanding a ship or a fleet, revolutionary warfare and today's drone and cyber-forms of warfare have been more conducive to female activity than other forms of warfare, even as women are also present in a wider variety of other broader temporal and geographical dimensions of the history of warfare.Hiding in Plain Sight is the only extensive annotated bibliography currently available which provides such a holistic overview of recent scholarship by grounding that scholarship in the existing military canon and history.

インターセックスの米国史　第2版
Reis, Elizabeth, Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex. 2nd ed. 288 pp. 2021:7 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <664-3926>
ISBN 978-1-4214-4184-9 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

This renowned history of intersex in America has been comprehensively updated to reflect recent shifts in attitudes, bioethics, and medical and legal practices.In Bodies in Doubt, Elizabeth Reis traces the changing definitions, perceptions, and medical management of intersex (atypical sex development) in America from the colonial period to the present. Arguing that medical practice must be understood within its broader cultural context, Reis demonstrates how deeply physicians have been influenced by social anxieties about marriage, heterosexuality, and same-sex desire throughout American history In this second edition, Reis adds two new chapters, a new preface, and a revised introduction to assess recent dramatic shifts in attitudes, bioethics, and medical and legal practices. Human rights organizations have declared early genital surgeries a form of torture and abuse, but doctors continue to offer surgical "repair," and parents continue to seek it for their children. While many are hearing the human rights call, controversies persist, and Reis explains why best practices in this field remain fiercely contested.

Remer, Ashley E. / Isselhardt, Tiffany R., Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures. (AASLH Exploring America's Historic Treasures) 288 pp. 2021:7 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <664-3927>
ISBN 978-1-5381-2089-7 hard ¥8,302.- (税込) US$ 37.00 *

Who are the girls that helped build America?Conventional history books shed little light on the influence and impact of girls' contributions to society and culture. This oversight is challenged by Girl Museum and their team, who give voices to the most neglected, yet profoundly impactful, historical narratives of American history: young girls.Exploring American Girls' History through 50 Historic Treasures showcases girls and their experiences through the lens of place and material culture. Discover how the objects and sites that girls left behind tell stories about America that you have never heard before. Readers will journey from the first peoples who called the continent home, to 21st century struggles for civil rights, becoming immersed in stories that show how the local impacts the global and vice versa, as told by the girls who built America. Their stories, dreams, struggles, and triumphs are the centerpiece of the nation's story as never before, helping to define both the struggle and meaning of being "American."This full-color book is a must-read for those who yearn for more balanced representation in historic narratives, as well as an inspiration to young people, showing them that everyone makes history. It includes color photographs of all the treasured objects explored.

Rosenfeld, Michael (ed.), The Italian Invert: A Gay Man's Intimate Confessions to Emile Zola. Tr. by N. Erber et al. 256 pp. 2022:4 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <664-3930>
ISBN 978-0-231-20488-0 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-0-231-20489-7 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

"Each of us has his tastes inscribed in his brain and heart; whether he fulfills his urges with regret or with joy, he must fulfill them. He should let others act according to their own nature. It's fate that creates us and guides us throughout our lives: to fight against it would be little more than fruitless, foolish, and reckless!"In the late 1880s, a dashing young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession to the novelist Emile Zola. In a series of revealing letters, he frankly described his sexual experiences with other men-including his seduction as a teenager by one of his father's friends and his first love affair, with a sergeant during his military service-as well as his "extraordinary" personality. Judging it too controversial, Zola gave it to a young doctor, who in 1896 published a censored version in a medical study on sexual inversion, as homosexuality was then known. When the Italian came across this book, he was shocked to discover how his life story had been distorted. In protest, he wrote a long, daring, and unapologetic letter to the doctor defending his right to love and to live as he wished.This book is the first complete, unexpurgated version in English of this remarkable queer autobiography. Its text is based on the recently discovered manuscript of the Italian's letter to the doctor. It also features an introduction tracing the textual history of the documents, analytical essays, and additional materials that help place the work in its historical context. Offering a striking glimpse of gay life in Europe in the late nineteenth century, The Italian Invert brings to light the powerful voice of a young man who forthrightly expressed his desires and eloquently affirmed his right to pleasure.

Sloane, Nan, Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries. 304 pp. 2022:1 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <664-3937>
ISBN 978-1-83860-663-3 hard ¥7,205.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00 *

"Compelling." The Guardian "An insightful and inspiring history." BBC History Magazine "A tantalising revelatory book." The House "Brisk and illuminating." Times Literary Supplement "A damn good read." Morning Star "Wonderful." The Chartist Uncontrollable Women is a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Very few of them are well-known today; some were unknown even in their own day. All of them contributed something to the world we now inhabit. At a time when women were supposed to leave politics to men they spoke, wrote, marched, organised, asked questions, challenged power structures, sometimes went to prison and even died. History has not usually been kind to them, and they have frequently been pushed into asides or footnotes, dismissed as secondary, or spoken over, for, or through by men and sometimes other women. In this book, they take centre stage in both their own stories and those of others, and in doing so bring different voices to the more familiar accounts of the period. These women and many others played a part in developing political ideas and freedoms as we know them today, and some fought battles which still remain to be won or raised questions that are still unresolved. These are their stories.

Stockton, Kathryn Bond, Gender(s). (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) 256 pp. 2021:8 (MIT Pr., US) <664-3940>
ISBN 978-0-262-54260-9 paper ¥3,578.- (税込) US$ 15.95 *

Tsouroufli, Maria / Redai, Dorottya (eds.), Gender Equality and Stereotyping in Secondary Schools: Case Studies from England, Hungary and Italy. (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education) 320 pp. 2021:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <664-3945>
ISBN 978-3-030-64125-2 hard ¥26,737.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book explores gender stereotyping and gender inequalities in secondary education in England, Hungary and Italy. The authors highlight the importance of addressing student and teacher attitudes if long-term changes in mindset are desired, as well as the underlying stereotypes that persist and linger in these educational contexts. Promoting a whole-school culture change approach, this book explores views of gender stereotypes from teachers and students concerning subject and career choices, as well as collaborative work with teachers, experts and NGOs in implementing and evaluating gender equality charters. Drawing on extensive research, this book employs an intersectional and cross-country approach: while the authors acknowledge the challenges and opportunities of researching gender equality frameworks across different countries, ultimately these link to the UN Sustainable Development goal of gender equality.

Welsh, Talia, Feminist Existentialism, Biopolitics, and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health. (Interdisciplinary Research in Gender) 240 pp. 2021:10 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-3949>
ISBN 978-0-367-76818-8 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-76820-1 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book explores the personal value of healthy behavior, arguing that our modern tendency to praise or blame individuals for their health is politically and economically motivated and has reinforced growing health disparities between the wealthy and poor under the guise of individual responsibility.We are awash in concerns about the state of our health and recommendations about how to improve it from medical professionals, public health experts, and the diet-exercise-wellness industry. The idea that health is about wellness and not just preventing illness becomes increasingly widespread as we find out how various modifiable behaviors, such as smoking or our diets, impact our health. In a critical examination of health, we find that alongside the move toward wellness as a state that the individual is responsible to in part produce, there is a roll-back of public programs. This book explores how this "good health imperative" is not as apolitical as one might assume. The more the individual is the locus of health, the less structural and historical issues that create health disparities are considered. Feminist Existentialism, Biopolitics, and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health's charts the impact of the increasing shift to a model of individual responsibility for one's health. It will benefit readers who are interested to think critically about normalization to produce "healthy bodies." In addition, this book will benefit readers who understand the value of personal health, but are wary of the ways in which health can be used as a tool to discriminate and fuel inequalities in health care access. This volume is primarily of interest to academics, students, public health and medical professionals, and readers who are interested in critically examining health from philosophical perspective in order to understand how we can celebrate the value of healthy behavior without reinforcing discrimination. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

歴史におけるジェンダー－グローバルな視点　第3版
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., Gender in History: Global Perspectives. 3rd ed. 312 pp. 2021:11 (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) <664-3950>
ISBN 978-1-119-71920-5 paper ¥11,207.- (税込) US$ 49.95 *

A concise yet comprehensive account of the roles and influences of gender over the millennia, featuring new and updated content throughout Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition, explores the construction and evolution of gender in many of the world's cultures from the Paleolithic era to the COVID pandemic of the twenty-first century. Broad in geographic and topical scope, this comprehensive volume discusses the ways families, religions, social hierarchies, politics, work, education, art, sexuality, and other issues are linked to various conceptions of gender. Now organized chronologically rather than topically, this extensively revised edition presents a wealth of up-to-date information based on the scholarship of the last decade. New and expanded chapters offer insights on the connections between gender and key events and trends in world history, including domestication and the development of agriculture, the growth of cities and larger-scale political structures, the spread of world religions, changing ideas of race, class, and sexuality, colonialism and imperialism, capitalism, wars, revolutions, and more. Written by a distinguished scholar in the field of women's and gender history, this third edition of Gender in History: Examines how gender roles were shaped by family life, religious traditions, various other institutions, and how the institutions were influenced by gender Considers why gender variations developed in different cultures and in diverse social, ethnic, and racial groups within a single culture Addresses ideas in different cultures that shaped both informal societal norms and formalized laws Explores debates about the origins of patriarchy, the development of complex gender hierarchies, and contemporary movements for social change Discusses the gender implications of modern issues including the global pandemic and ongoing cultural and economic shifts Includes an accessible introduction to key theoretical and methodological issues and an instructor's website site with visual and written original sources Gender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition, is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as those on women's history, women in world history, and gender in world history, and a valuable supplement for general survey courses within History and Women's and Gender Studies programs.

Williams, Terry, The Soft City: Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City. 304 pp. 2022:4 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <664-3952>
ISBN 978-0-231-17794-8 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-17795-5 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

There is no rawer human experience than sex, and in a city as diverse as New York, sexual experiences come in many forms. In the pre-Giuliani days, temptation flooded Times Square on theater marquees and neon signs. Behind unmarked doors downtown, more adventurous experiences awaited for those in the know.In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams, with the help of accomplices and informants, ventures deep into the underground world of sex in New York. The book explores different aspects of the "perverse space" of the city: porn theaters, sex shops, peep shows, restroom cruising, sadomasochism clubs, swingers' events, and many more. Featuring field notes taken between 1975 and the present, The Soft City documents the ways that New Yorkers on the social periphery have thought about and pursued sex, whether for recreation or to make a living. It also presents an unconventional account of New York City's many transformations, showing how the soft city-its people and their unique character-evolved in response to official and social pressures. Featuring Williams's unmistakable portraits of the demimonde as well as the accounts of other ethnographers challenging themselves to dive into the city's hidden crannies, The Soft City is as irreproducible as it is provocative.

Zappone, Katherine / Gilligan, Anne Louise, Reclaiming the Secret of Love: Feminism, Imagination and Sexual Difference. 182 pp. 2021:6 (P. Lang, SZ) <664-3956>
ISBN 978-1-80079-237-1 paper ¥8,377.- (税込) SFR 34.00

This book presents a bold hypothesis: the social transformation at the heart of feminist theory will be concretised only when women, and men, use their imaginations to empower new ways of being in and understanding our world. Feminist theory and the history of the philosophy of the imagination are used as resources to outline how the practice of ≪sexual difference≫ as an ontological vocation, and its application to religious language, can be a call to live love and mutual relations in a new way. Poetry, art, cultural and literary works are key resources too. Gilligan invites the reader to apply this theory, history and art to their own unfolding gender identities through an imagination no longer hindered by patriarchal characteristics and restrictions. She offers a special focus on the becoming of female subjectivity. She knew that if people, especially, though not only, women, image the possible for themselves and our world, through doing the hard work of becoming subject, not object of any other, such agency would necessarily change even the most intransigent social, economic and cultural problems to shift violence towards peace, lies towards truth, poverty and inequality towards the flourishing of every one. She bore witness to this in her own life, with others.

Gibson, Rebecca / Vanderveen, James M. (eds.), Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females. 236 pp. 2021:3 (Lexington Books, US) <664-3699>
ISBN 978-1-79364-135-9 hard ¥24,908.- (税込) US$ 111.00 *

Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines representations of the supernatural dead to demonstrate shifts in the manifestation of gender. Including readings of East Asian detectives/cyborgs, Iranian vampires, and African zombies, among others, This collection offers a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture representations of the gendered supernatural from a broad range of international contexts. The contributors show that, as creatures pass through the liminal space of death, their new supernatural forms challenge cultural conceptions of gender, masculinity, and femininity.

Boursier, Helen T. (ed.), The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Women's Studies in Religion. (The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook Series) 390 pp. 2021:6 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <664-372>
ISBN 978-1-5381-5444-1 hard ¥34,782.- (税込) US$ 155.00 *

The handbook offers interreligious and multicultural perspectives on women's studies in religion in conversation with specific contextualized gender-biased justice challenges. Contributing authors address 25 current and trending themes from their diverse socio-cultural-religious backgrounds. Themes move across the spectrum of women's studies in religion, blurring the boundaries beyond "religious studies" to include perspectives from ethics, philosophy, sociology, economics, and law as. Religious diversity addresses challenges for women's studies through the lens of Wicca, Buddhist, Asian Trans Pacific, Hinduism, Judaism, Muslima, and Christian. The handbook is practical, contemporary, and relevant as it moves theory to practical application in the section on challenging and changing system gender injustice with chapters on sexual violence and the #MeToo movement, femicide and feminicide, a Mohawk response to colonial dominion and violations to Indigenous lands and women, and a religio-politico witness for love and justice, include how to engage the theories of women's studies in religion in the public square through civic engagement to create empowerment for actual, practical change. It shows the future movement of the becoming of women's studies with chapters digital activism, reimagining women's mosque spaces online, minoritized sexual identities, and spiritual homelessness, and charges readers to see "hope now" by challenging and changing gender injustice.

Hopson, Mark C. / Petin, Mika'il (eds.), Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space. (Communicating Gender) 208 pp. 2020:10 (Lexington Books, US) <664-3772>
ISBN 978-1-79360-703-4 hard ¥24,908.- (税込) US$ 111.00 *

Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces, focusing on how theory meets praxis when mobilizing for social change. Contributors disentangle complexities of the Black experience and reimagine the radical progressive work required for societal health and wellbeing, forming a mental picture of what the world has the potential to be without excluding current realities for Black boys and men, civic manhood, maleness, and the fluidity of masculinities. These realities are acknowledged and interrogated across private and public contexts, media, education, occupation, and theoretical perspectives. This book encourages readers to reenvision social identity as an ongoing phenomenon, asserting that collective vision informs action and collective action informs possibilities for peace and freedom in the world around us. Scholars of communication, gender studies, and race studies will find this book particularly interesting.

Johnson, Lisa, Moves Spaces Places - The Life Worlds of Jamaican Women in Montreal, An Ethnography. (Culture and Social Practice) 200 S. 2021:10 (Transcript, GW) <664-3778>
ISBN 978-3-8376-5808-8 paper ¥9,237.- (税込) EUR 38.00

In the complex and multi-layered process of migration and identity-building, classical migration theories and approaches of transnationalism seem no longer able to grasp how belonging and home are to be found in movement. This ethnography leads the reader into the lives of five Jamaican women in Montreal; their daily practices and experiences, their spaces of communion, their memories and projections for the future. Lisa Johnson sheds light on the mobile biographies and migratory agency of her interlocutors by following the intricate mental and physical trajectories of their deep-rooted yearning to return home.

Murti, Lata / Flores, Glenda M. (eds.), Gender, Race, and Class in the Lives of Today's Teachers: Educators at Intersections. 291 pp. 2021:10 (Springer, GW) <664-3806>
ISBN 978-3-030-73550-0 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This volume explores the professional experiences of a vast array of educators through a series of research essays that focus on the interplay of gender, race, class, and sexualities as well as how these dynamics influence the educators' teaching. The volume illuminates this interplay not only in traditional classroom settings, but also in non-traditional contexts such as prisons and juvenile detention facilities, family education, dual-language immersion programs, early childhood education, and higher education, including teacher training programs. The concluding chapter, written by the editors, provides general recommendations for recruiting and retaining a more diverse teacher workforce worldwide. From autoethnographies to platicas, testimonios and in-depth interviews, this qualitatively rich volume offers powerful and timely insights about the experiences of teachers who are too often overlooked. Gilda L. Ochoa, Professor of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies This illuminating book centers educators' intersectional subjectivities and lived experiences, bringing to life the radical possibilities of transformative education. It is a much needed resource for anyone invested in understanding and advancing education as a catalyst for equity and social justice. Lorena Garcia, Associate Professor of Sociology & Latin American and Latino Studies

Antony, Louise M., Only Natural: Gender, Knowledge, and Humankind. 440 pp. 2022:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <664-3836>
ISBN 978-0-19-093436-1 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

This volume showcases the work of philosopher Louise Antony, and her influential contributions to feminist and analytic philosophy, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Her broadly interdisciplinary work brings a naturalistic perspective to philosophical issues of both theoretical and practical importance and center on a key theme--whether, and how, facts about human embodiment ought to constrain philosophical theories. Antony argues that feminist criticisms of analytic epistemology have brought to light some serious limitations of mainstream approaches to the theory of knowledge, and that a naturalistic approach to epistemology is called for. In Part One of this volume, she considers the relationship between feminism and analytic philosophy of mind and language, with special attention to "speech act" theories of pornography. In Part Two, she defends naturalized epistemology both as a correct approach to the study of human knowledge, and as a useful tool for progressive activists in the struggle for social justice. And in Part Three, she confronts nature-nurture debates, particularly as these erupt in debates about gender and racial equality. Throughout the volume, she makes the case for a philosophical method informed by empirical science. Collecting these articles alongside a new introduction reveal the underlying unity and impressive power of Antony's work over several decades. Groundbreaking at the time of their publication, and more relevant today, this collection will be of interest to a wide range of philosophical readers.

Backscheider, Paula R., Women in Wartime: Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century. 456 pp. 2021:12 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <664-3838>
ISBN 978-1-4214-4167-2 hard ¥22,888.- (税込) US$ 102.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4214-4168-9 paper ¥8,302.- (税込) US$ 37.00 *

A revelatory history of the characters that playwrights and managers created out of the real lives of women in intimate relationships with military men to serve Great Britain's greatest needs during the war-saturated eighteenth century.During the long eighteenth century, Great Britain was almost continuously at war. As the era unfolded, the theatre gradually discovered the potential in having actresses, recently introduced to the stage in the 1660s, perform as wartime women characters. As playwrights and managers began casting women in transformative roles to meet each major national need, female characters came to be central figures in bringing the war home to the nation, transforming them into deeply patriotic British subjects.Paula Backscheider's Women in Wartime is the first study of theatrical representations of women with intimate connections to military men. Drawing upon her extensive expertise in gender, performance studies, popular culture, and archival studies, Backscheider traces the rise of the London theatre's acceptance that one of its responsibilities was to support its country's wars. Rather than focusing on the historical, mythical "warrior women" on the battlefield who have been much studied, Backscheider explores the lives and work of sweethearts, wives, mothers, sisters, barmaids, provision sellers, seaport prostitutes, and more, whose relationships to active-duty men made them recruits, volunteers, or even conscripts. They represent a distinct group of thousands of real women, and the actresses who portrayed them gave performances of change, struggle, celebration, mourning, survival, love, and patriotism. Backscheider explicates more than fifty plays-from main pieces, short farces, interludes, afterpieces, and comic operas to entr'actes, pantomimes, and even masques-as both entertainment and as ideological and propagandistic vehicles in times of severe crises. She also reveals how these works, many written by men with military experience, attest to the context of difficult, inescapable realities and momentous needs. Through the debunking of sexual stereotypes and attention to audience-pleasing roles such as impoverished-wife and breeches parts, Backscheider adds a dimension to theatrical history that substantially contributes to women's and military histories. Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.

Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor et al. (eds.), Goodbye America: Fifty Years of American-Jewish Women's Immigration to Israel, a Collective Autobiography (1967-2017). 306 pp. 2021:7 (P. Lang, SZ) <664-3842>
ISBN 978-3-0343-2994-1 paper ¥22,335.- (税込) SFR 90.65

The Book Goodbye America: Fifty Years of American-Jewish Women’s Immigration to Israel, a Collective Autobiography (1967-2017), is composed of 18 autobiographical essays written by American-Jewish women who made aliyah between 1967 and 2017. Each essay traces the author’s path to making that choice, and describes and analyses her life after her immigration and at various crossroads of her life.

Berberick, Stevie N., Reframing Sex: Unlearning the Gender Binary with Trans Masculine YouTube Vloggers. (Education and Popular Culture) 194 pp. 2020:11 (Lexington Books, US) <664-3843>
ISBN 978-1-79361-946-4 hard ¥24,908.- (税込) US$ 111.00 *

This book is an exploration of both mainstream and independent media. Grounded in qualitative methods, this book explores three trans masculine run YouTube channels alongside the streaming productions: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Orange is the New Black, and Transparent. Analyzing and contrasting these narratives illuminates how even the most progressive of pop culture productions fail to present multi-dimensional transgender narratives, thereby intensifying stigma and shame for those outside of the binary (male or female, man or woman, gay or straight). In contrast, trans masculine produced YouTube vlogs, such as those discussed in this book, can help audience members unlearn the ways in which the continuum of sex, gender, and sexual orientation has been simplified and obscured through corporate media. These vlogs thus exemplify the various ways in which independent media acts as an educational tool toward greater awareness, and perhaps empathy, of/for the self and others in regards to sexual identity.