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

Sharp-Jeffs, Nicola, Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse. (Feminist Developments in Violence and Abuse) 240 pp. 2022:6 (Emerald, UK) <672-981>
ISBN 978-1-80117-421-3 paper ¥9,424.- (税込) US$ 42.00 *

Despite being recognised by victim-survivors as a tactic used by abusers, economic abuse has received little attention in research, policy, or practice. Written by an internationally recognised expert on economic abuse, this powerful book provides a crucial validation of the lived experience of victim-survivors, and highlights the urgent need to develop effective responses to the issue. Breaking fresh ground, Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse exposes the many ways in which abusers seek to control their intimate partners through economic resources and reinforces the importance of holding abusers accountable for their behaviour. Whilst the focus of this book is on Westminster policy in the UK, the author highlights how the case for 'naming' and defining economic abuse in statute has wider resonance. Making a trailblazing case for recognising this form of abuse, Sharp-Jeffs argues the case to expand the coordinated community response model to domestic abuse to address economic control through involving 'non-traditional' stakeholders such as money/debt advice organisations and the financial services sector, alongside specialist domestic abuse services and statutory agencies. Coming in the wake of the Domestic Abuse Act (2021), which broadened discourse from financial to economic abuse, Sharp-Jeffs turns our attention to this critical momentum for change and makes an important step towards shining a light on a form of coercive and controlling behaviour which has been invisible for too long.

Baker, Christina N., Black Women Directors. (Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture) 174 pp. 2022:3 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <672-995>
ISBN 978-1-9788-1334-2 hard ¥15,259.- (税込) US$ 68.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-1333-5 paper ¥4,700.- (税込) US$ 20.95 *

Black women have long recognized the power of film for storytelling. For far too long, however, the cultural and historical narratives about film have not accounted for the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by highlighting the trajectory of the culturally significant work of Black women directors in the United States, from the under-examined pioneers of the silent era, to the documentarians who sought to highlight the voices and struggles of Black women, and the contemporary Black women directors in Hollywood. Applying a Black feminist perspective, this book examines the ways that Black women filmmakers have made a way for themselves and their work by resisting the dominant cultural expectations for Black women and for the medium of film, as a whole.

Eder, Sandra, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea. 328 pp. 2022:6 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <672-91>
ISBN 978-0-226-57332-8 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-226-81993-8 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Hagengruber, Ruth Edith (ed.), Epoque Emilienne: Philosophy and Science in the Age pf Emilie Du Chatelet (1706 -1749). (Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences 11) 651 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <672-92>
ISBN 978-3-030-89920-2 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99 *

The present book contextualizes Du Chatelet's contribution to the philosophy of her time. The editor offers this tribute to an Epoque Emiliennee as a collection of innovative papers on Emilie Du Chatelet's powerful philosophy and legacy.Du Chatelet was an outstanding figure in the era she lived in. Her work and achievements were unique, though not an exception in the 18th century, which did not lack outstanding women. Her personal intellectual education, her scholarly network and her mental acumen were celebrated in her time, perceiving her to have "multiplied nine figures by nine figures in her head". She was able to gain access to institutions which were normally denied to women. To call an epoch an Epoque Emilienne may be seen as daring and audacious, but it will not be the last time if we continue to bring women philosophers back into the memory of the history of philosophy. The contributors paid attention to the philosophical state of the art, which forms the background to Du Chatelet's philosophy. They follow the transformation of philosophical concepts under her pen and retrace the impact of her ideas. The book is of interest to scholars working in the history of philosophy as well as in gender studies. It is of special interest for scholars working on the 18th century, Kant, Leibniz, Wolff, Newton and the European Enlightenment.

Brandt, Susan H., Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia. (Early American Studies) 336 pp. 2022:4 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <672-88>
ISBN 978-0-8122-5386-3 hard ¥8,963.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

In her eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, the Philadelphia healer Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted her ingenuity and authority with the bold strokes of her pen. Paschall developed an extensive healing practice, consulted medical texts, and conducted experiments based on personal observations. As British North America's premier city of medicine and science, Philadelphia offered Paschall a nurturing environment enriched by diverse healing cultures and the Quaker values of gender equality and women's education. She participated in transatlantic medical and scientific networks with her friend, Benjamin Franklin. Paschall was not unique, however. Women Healers recovers numerous women of European, African, and Native American descent who provided the bulk of health care in the greater Philadelphia area for centuries. Although the history of women practitioners often begins with the 1850 founding of Philadelphia's Female Medical College, the first women's medical school in the United States, these students merely continued the legacies of women like Paschall. Remarkably, though, the lives and work of early American female practitioners have gone largely unexplored. While some sources depict these women as amateurs whose influence declined, Susan Brandt documents women's authoritative medical work that continued well into the nineteenth century. Spanning a century and a half, Women Healers traces the transmission of European women's medical remedies to the Delaware Valley where they blended with African and Indigenous women's practices, forming hybrid healing cultures. Drawing on extensive archival research, Brandt demonstrates that women healers were not inflexible traditional practitioners destined to fall victim to the onward march of Enlightenment science, capitalism, and medical professionalization. Instead, women of various classes and ethnicities found new sources of healing authority, engaged in the consumer medical marketplace, and resisted physicians' attempts to marginalize them. Brandt reveals that women healers participated actively in medical and scientific knowledge production and the transition to market capitalism.

Zulver, Julia Margaret, High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts. 212 pp. 2022:5 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <672-886>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2710-3 hard ¥33,660.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-2709-7 paper ¥7,393.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

High-Risk Feminism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women's organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia's armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established tradition of studying women in war, we tend to focus on their roles as mothers or carers, as peacemakers, or sometimes as revolutionaries. This book explains the gendered underpinnings of why women engage in feminist mobilization, even when this takes place in a 'domain of losses' that exposes them to high levels of risk. It follows four women's organizations who break with traditional gender norms and defy armed groups' social and territorial control, exposing them to retributive punishment. It provides rich evidence to document how women are able to surmount the barriers to mobilization when they frame their actions in terms of resistance, rather than fear.

Hendriks, Thomas, Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession. 320 pp. 2022:1 (Duke U. Pr., US) * paper 2022:2 <672-836>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1523-9 hard ¥24,223.- (税込) US$ 107.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1784-4 paper ¥6,495.- (税込) US$ 28.95 *

Congolese logging camps are places where mud, rain, fuel smugglers, and village roadblocks slow down multinational timber firms; where workers wage wars against trees while evading company surveillance deep in the forest; where labor compounds trigger disturbing colonial memories; and where blunt racism, logger machismo, and homoerotic desires reproduce violence. In Rainforest Capitalism Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy world of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize racialized and gendered power dynamics in capitalist extraction. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese workers and European company managers as well as traders, farmers, smugglers, and barkeepers, Hendriks shows how logging is deeply tied to feelings of existential vulnerability in the face of larger forces, structures, and histories. These feelings, Hendriks contends, reveal a precarious side of power in an environment where companies, workers, and local residents frequently find themselves out of control. An ethnography of complicity, ecstasis, and paranoia, Rainforest Capitalism queers assumptions of corporate strength and opens up new ways to understand the complexities and contradictions of capitalist extraction.

Wendland, Claire L., Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles. 384 pp. 2022:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <672-850>
ISBN 978-0-226-81686-9 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-81688-3 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twenty-first century, about one woman in twelve could expect to die of a pregnancy or childbirth complication in Malawi. Specific deaths became object lessons. Explanatory stories circulated through hospitals and villages, proliferating among a range of practitioners: nurse-midwives, traditional birth attendants, doctors, epidemiologists, herbalists. Was biology to blame? Economic underdevelopment? Immoral behavior? Tradition? Were the dead themselves at fault? In Partial Stories, Claire L. Wendland considers these explanations for maternal death, showing how they reflect competing visions of the past and shared concerns about social change. Drawing on extended fieldwork, Wendland reveals how efforts to legitimate a single story as the authoritative version can render care more dangerous than it might otherwise be. Historical, biological, technological, ethical, statistical, and political perspectives on death usually circulate in different expert communities and different bodies of literature. Here, Wendland considers them together, illuminating dilemmas of maternity care in contexts of acute change, chronic scarcity, and endemic inequity within Malawi and beyond.

アジアにおけるボーイズラブの文化
Welker, James (ed.), Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia. (Asia Pop!) 277 pp. 2022:5 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <672-719>
ISBN 978-0-8248-8899-2 hard ¥15,259.- (税込) US$ 68.00 *

The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan works. BL's male-male romantic and sexual relationships have found a particularly receptive home in other parts of Asia, where strong local fan communities and locally produced BL works have garnered a following throughout the region, taking on new meanings and engendering widespread cultural effects.Queer Transfigurations is the first detailed examination of the BL media explosion across Asia. The book brings together twenty-one scholars exploring BL media, its fans, and its sociocultural impacts in a dozen countries in East, Southeast, and South Asia--and beyond. Contributors draw on their expertise in an array of disciplines and fields, including anthropology, fan studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, literature, media studies, political science, and sociology to shed light on BL media and its fandoms.Queer Transfigurations reveals the far-reaching influences of the BL genre, demonstrating that it is truly transnational and transcultural in diverse cultural contexts. It has also helped bring about positive changes in the status of LGBT(Q) people and communities as well as enlighten local understandings of gender and sexuality throughout Asia.In short, Queer Transfigurations shows that, some fifty years after the first BL manga appeared in print, the genre is continuing to reverberate and transform lives.

上海、香港、東京における独身女性、機会、家族
Nakano, Lynne Y., Making Our Own Destiny: Single Women, Opportunity, and Family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. 256 pp. 2022:3 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <672-729>
ISBN 978-0-8248-8996-8 hard ¥15,259.- (税込) US$ 68.00 *

In East Asia's largest cities, hundreds of thousands of women remain single into middle age and beyond, giving rise to a demographic transformation with profound implications for their societies. Labeled in the media as "loser dogs" and "parasites" in Japan and "leftover women" in mainland China and Hong Kong, single women in East Asia are criticized for being choosy, selfish, and overly independent. Based on ethnographic research and interviews with more than a hundred single women in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, Making Our Own Destiny is the first study to comprehensively compare the views and experiences of single women living in these three great cities-cities that stand at the forefront of the region's movement toward later marriage and rising singlehood.This well-researched book explores how single women attempt to take advantage of unprecedented opportunities for success in education and work while navigating marriage and family expectations. Unlike their counterparts in Europe and North America, many do not have romantic partners and most do not have children. What do these women want? How do they see themselves and their place in society? What are their values, goals, and dreams? As they work to balance opportunities with expectations, single women in urban East Asia find themselves deeply embedded in the caregiving systems of their societies. In Shanghai, author Lynne Nakano finds single women rushing to marry to enter intergenerational relationships of care. In Hong Kong, they consider the risks of marriage as they tend to the needs of natal and extended families. In Tokyo, many single women hope to marry to have children while others find a place for themselves in their families as elder caregivers.Nakano's intimate portrayals not only expose meticulously planned family strategies gone awry, engagements broken, and careers abandoned, but also highlight the experiences of women embracing the joys of remaining single. Hers is a fascinating study of modern women finding meaning in their lives while offering an insightful glimpse into the future of urban families in an age of low fertility and long transitions into adulthood.

Song, Geng, Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity. (China Understandings Today) 240 pp. 2022:5 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <672-755>
ISBN 978-0-472-07529-4 hard ¥16,830.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-05529-6 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

The serial narrative is one of the most robust and popular forms of storytelling in contemporary China. With a domestic audience of one billion-plus and growing transnational influence and accessibility, this form of storytelling is becoming the centerpiece of a fast-growing digital entertainment industry and a new symbol and carrier of China's soft power. Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity explores how television and online dramas imagine the Chinese nation and form postsocialist Chinese gendered subjects. The book addresses a conspicuous paradox in Chinese popular culture today: the coexistence of increasingly diverse gender presentations and conservative gender policing by the government, viewers, and society. Using first-hand data collected through interviews and focus group discussions with audiences comprising viewers of different ages, genders, and educational backgrounds, Televising Chineseness sheds light on how television culture relates to the power mechanisms and truth regimes that shape the understanding of gender and the construction of gendered subjects in postsocialist China.

Bhattacharjya, Manjima, Intimate City. 240 pp. 2022:3 (Zubaan Books, II) <672-794>
ISBN 978-93-90514-31-1 paper ¥4,488.- (税込) US$ 20.00 *

Najmabadi, Afsaneh, Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran. 184 pp. 2022:4 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-815>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1515-4 hard ¥22,427.- (税込) US$ 99.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1777-6 paper ¥5,822.- (税込) US$ 25.95 *

Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew about. In Familial Undercurrents, Najmabadi uncovers her family's complex experiences of polygamous marriage to tell a larger story of the transformations of notions of love, marriage, and family life in mid-twentieth-century Iran. She traces how the idea of "marrying for love" and the desire for companionate, monogamous marriage acquired dominance in Tehran's emerging urban middle class. Considering the role played in that process by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century romance novels, reformist newspapers, plays, and other literature, Najmabadi outlines the rituals and objects---such as wedding outfits, letter writing, and family portraits---that came to characterize the ideal companionate marriage. She reveals how in the course of one generation men's polygamy had evolved from an acceptable open practice to a taboo best kept secret. At the same time, she chronicles the urban transformations of Tehran and how its architecture and neighborhood social networks both influenced and became emblematic of the myriad forms of modern Iranian family life.

Kim, Ruthanne Crapo / Russell, Y. / Sharp, B. (eds.), Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place, and Identity with Irigaray. (SUNY Series in Gender Theory) 304 pp. 2022:5 (State U. New York Pr., US) <672-62>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8845-5 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

G.スティール著　英国、日本、米国におけるジェンダーと投票
Steel, Gill, What Women Want: Gender and Voting in Britain, Japan and the United States. 326 pp. 2022:2 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <672-631>
ISBN 978-0-472-13295-9 hard ¥17,952.- (税込) US$ 80.00 *

What Women Want analyzes decades of voting preferences, values, and policy preferences to debunk some of the media and academic myths about gender gaps in voting and policy preferences. Findings show that no single theory explains when differences in women's and men's voting preferences emerge, when they do not, or when changes-or the lack thereof-occur over time. Steel extends existing theories to create a broader framework for thinking about gender and voting behavior to provide more analytical purchase in understanding gender and its varying effects on individual voters' preferences. She incorporates the long-term effects of party identification and class politics on political decision-making, particularly in how they influence preferences on social provision and on expectations of the state. She also points to the importance of symbolic politics.

FitzGerald, Sharron / Skilbrei, May-Len, Sexual Politics in Contemporary Europe: Moving Targets, Sitting Ducks. 132 pp. 2022:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <672-516>
ISBN 978-3-030-91173-7 hard ¥14,582.- (税込) EUR 59.99

The legal regulation of gender and sexuality has undergone dramatic changes throughout Europe in the last 40 years and this has shaped what it means to be a European citizen. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary research, this book uses the discourses around current European sexual politics as an entry point to interrogate how, and with what effect, the EU and its Member States harness issues of gender and sexuality to support issues of higher political importance. It takes recent and ongoing political debates and legislative changes around prostitution and sexual assault as a focus. Using four national case studies: Poland, Germany, Sweden and Italy it illuminates how the EU's desire for increased harmonisation across the Union around gender and sexuality norms and values operates differently and with specific effects across Member States. The book's structure provides a detailed map of how and why contemporary European sexual politics is changing, and how this contributes to establishing European norms and values in developments in law and policy around prostitution and sexual assault. By examining how and why the EU and its Member States implement their policies in these two policy areas we can begin to illuminate how contemporary European sexual politics serve some groups' interests while marginalizing 'Others'.

Hodgson, Jodie, Gender, Power and Restorative Justice: A Feminist Critique. (Critical Criminological Perspectives) 236 pp. 2022:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <672-519>
ISBN 978-3-030-90826-3 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99 *

This book ties restorative justice into the exercise of patriarchal power. It is focused on the individual narratives of 15 girls and young women who have participated in a victim-offender restorative justice (RJ) conference and the perspectives of youth justice practitioners. Gender, Power and Restorative Justice expands feminist engagement with RJ by focusing critical attention on the importance of the social construction of gender, the exercise of power, shame, stigma, muting and resistance to girls' experiences of RJ conferencing. Drawing upon recent developments to the sociology of stigma and feminist perspectives on shame, the book contends that RJ conferencing can produce harmful implications for girls and young women who participate. Ultimately it is argued that anti-carceral, social policy alternatives, underpinned by feminist praxis, should replace a youth justice jurisprudence for girls. This book will be of particular use and interest to those studying modules on criminology, youth justice, criminal justice and social work courses.

Ashley, Florence, Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis. (Law and Society) 220 pp. 2022:4 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <672-448>
ISBN 978-0-7748-6692-7 hard ¥20,183.- (税込) US$ 89.95 *

Survivors of conversion practices - interventions meant to stop gender transition - have likened the process to torture. Florence Ashley rethinks and pushes forward the banning of these practices by surveying these bans in different jurisdictions, and addressing key issues around their legal regulation. Ashley also investigates the advantages and disadvantages of legislative approaches to regulating conversion therapies, and provides guidance for how prohibitions can be improved. Finally, Ashley offers a carefully annotated model law that provides detailed guidance for legislatures and policymakers. Most importantly, this book centres the experiences of trans people themselves in its analysis and recommendations.

Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J., Viral Frictions: Global Health and the Persistence of HIV Stigma in Kenya. (Medical Anthropology) 270 pp. 2022:5 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <672-345>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2233-7 hard ¥33,660.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-2232-0 paper ¥8,963.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

Viral Frictions takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co-produced at the nexus of local, national, and global relationships and storytelling about and practices associated with HIV. Based on a decade of fieldwork in one highway trading center in Kenya, Viral Frictions offers compelling stories of stigma and discrimination as a lens for understanding broader social processes, the complexities of globalization and health, and their profound impact on the everyday social lives and relationships of people living through the ongoing HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. This highly engaging book is ideal reading for those interested in teaching and learning about intersectionality, as Pfeiffer meticulously demonstrates how HIV stigma interacts with issues of treatment, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, social change, and international aid systems.

Schoen, Johanna (ed.), Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies. (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series) 176 pp. 2022:6 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <672-348>
ISBN 978-0-8135-9727-0 hard ¥14,125.- (税込) US$ 62.95 *
ISBN 978-0-8135-9726-3 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

Abortion Care as Moral Work brings together the voices of abortion providers, abortion counselors, clinic owners, neonatologists, bioethicists, and historians to discuss how and why providing abortion care is moral work. The collection offers voices not usually heard as clinicians talk about their work and their thoughts about life and death. In four subsections--Providers, Clinics, Conscience, and The Fetus--the contributions in this anthology explore the historical context and present-day challenges to the delivery of abortion care. Contributing authors address the motivations that lead abortion providers to offer abortion care, discuss the ways in which anti-abortion regulations have made it increasingly difficult to offer feminist-inspired services, and ponder the status of the fetus and the ethical frameworks supporting abortion care and fetal research. Together these essays provide a feminist moral foundation to reassert that abortion care is moral work.

Nathan, Dev / Silliman Bhattacharjee, Shikha et al., Reverse Subsidies in Global Monopsony Capitalism: Gender, Labour, and Environmental Injustice in Garment Value Chains. (Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains) 320 pp. 2022:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <672-299>
ISBN 978-1-316-51227-2 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This book provides a firm analytical base to discussions about injustice and the unequal distribution of gains from global production in the form of global monopsony capitalism. It utilizes the concept of reverse subsidies as the purchase of gendered labour and environmental services below their costs of production in garment value chains in India and other garment producing countries, such as Bangladesh and Cambodia. Environmental services, such as freshwater for garment manufacture and land for cotton production, are degraded by overuse and untreated waste disposal. The resulting higher profits from the low prices of garments are captured by global brands, using their monopsony position, with few buyers and myriad sellers, in the market. This book links the concept of reverse subsidies with those of injustice, inequality and sustainability in global production.

Vogel, Maria A. / Arnell, Linda (eds.), Living Like a Girl: Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond. (Transnational Girlhoods 3) 266 pp. 2021:8 (Berghahn, US) <672-309>
ISBN 978-1-80073-147-9 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

In recent decades, large-scale social changes have taken place in Europe. Ranging from neoliberal social policies to globalization and the growth of EU, these changes have significantly affected the conditions in which girls shape their lives. Living Like a Girl explores the relationship between changing social conditions and girls' agency, with a particular focus on social services such as school programs and compulsory institutional care. The contributions in this collected volume seek to expand our understanding of contemporary European girlhood by demonstrating how social problems are managed in different cultural contexts, political and social systems.

Epstein, Steven G., The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life. 400 pp. 2022:7 (U. Chicago Pr., US) * paper 2022:4 <672-335>
ISBN 978-0-226-81814-6 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-81822-1 paper ¥7,405.- (税込) US$ 33.00 *

Offering an entryway into the distinctive worlds of sexual health and a window onto their spillover effects, sociologist Steven Epstein traces the development of the concept and parses the debates that swirl around it. Since the 1970s, health professionals, researchers, governments, advocacy groups, and commercial interests have invested in the pursuit of something called "sexual health." Under this expansive banner, a wide array of programs have been launched, organizations founded, initiatives funded, products sold-and yet, no book before this one asks: What does it mean to be sexually healthy? When did people conceive of a form of health called sexual health? And how did it become the gateway to addressing a host of social harms and the reimagining of private desires and public dreams? Conjoining "sexual" with "health" changes both terms: it alters how we conceive of sexuality and transforms what it means to be healthy, prompting new expectations of what medicine can provide. Yet the ideal of achieving sexual health remains elusive and open-ended, and the benefits and costs of promoting it are unevenly distributed across genders, races, and sexual identities. Rather than a thing apart, sexual health is intertwined with nearly every conceivable topical debate-from sexual dysfunction to sexual violence, from reproductive freedom to the practicalities of sexual contact in a pandemic. In this book Steven Epstein analyzes the rise, proliferation, uptake, and sprawling consequences of sexual health activities, offering critical tools to assess those consequences, expand capacities for collective decision making, and identify pathways that promote social justice.

Evans, Stephanie Y. / Davis, Sarita K. et al. (eds.), Black Women and Public Health: Strategies to Name, Locate, and Change Systems of Power. (SUNY series in Black Women's Wellness) 336 pp. 2022:3 (State U. New York Pr., US) <672-336>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8731-1 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Grabman, Genevieve, Challenging Pregnancy: A Journey through the Politics and Science of Healthcare in America. 210 pp. 2022:3 (U. Iowa Pr., US) <672-339>
ISBN 978-1-60938-815-7 paper ¥4,475.- (税込) US$ 19.95 *

In Challenging Pregnancy, Genevieve Grabman recounts being pregnant with identical twins whose circulatory systems were connected in a rare condition called twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. Doctors couldn't "unfuse" the fetuses because one twin also had several other confounding problems: selective intrauterine growth restriction, a two-vessel umbilical cord, a marginal cord insertion, and, possibly, a parasitic triplet. Ultimately, national anti-abortion politics-not medicine or her own choices-determined the outcome of Grabman's pregnancy. At every juncture, anti-abortion politics limited the care available to her, the doctors and hospitals willing to treat her, the tools doctors could use, and the words her doctors could say. Although she asked for aggressive treatment to save at least one baby, hospital ethics boards blocked all able doctors from helping her.Challenging Pregnancy is about Grabman's harrowing pregnancy and the science and politics of maternal healthcare in the United States, where every person must self-advocate for the desired outcome of their own pregnancy.

Buntz, Lois A., Generosity and Gender: Philanthropic Models for Women Donors and the Fund Development Professionals Who Support Them. 224 pp. 2022:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <672-259>
ISBN 978-3-030-90379-4 paper ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99 *

The social, political, and economic environment is ripe with opportunity to engage women and their philanthropy. Professionals working in the field of philanthropy want ideas, practical information, research, and guidance about how to work with women donors, how to build women's philanthropy initiatives, and how to integrate this subset of donors into their current fund development departments. This book offers insight into the three historical waves of women's philanthropy and provides a summary of current research and inspiring stories collected from interviews with more than 70 women philanthropists and leaders. Each chapter begins with current research, followed by interviews and examples, and ends with suggestions for fundraisers on how to implement the information into a women's philanthropy initiative using a six-step process: Awareness, Assessment, Alignment, Action, Acknowledgement and Achievement. The last several chapters focus on lessons learned from successful programs in traditional organizational settings-healthcare, higher education, and environment-and what we have yet to learn from the new and emerging philanthropic models led by Laurene Powell Jobs, Priscilla Chan, Melinda Gates, Nancy Roob, and MacKenzie Scott. Throughout the book, themes of equity, diversity, and inclusion are evident and featured in stories and programs led by women of color and younger donors. Additionally, COVID has impacted how fundraisers work, requiring the philanthropy community to adapt and create new ways to reach women donors. The final chapter is a call to action to all women, to give bigger and bolder as the fourth wave of women's philanthropy rises.

Decker, Jessica Elbert / Layne, Danielle A. et al. (eds.), Otherwise Than the Binary: New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture. (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy) 320 pp. 2022:6 (State U. New York Pr., US) <672-19>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8879-0 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Peterson, Kristin M., Unruly Souls: The Digital Activism of Muslim and Christian Feminists. 194 pp. 2022:7 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <672-196>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2267-2 hard ¥33,660.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-2266-5 paper ¥7,393.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

Amid growing digital activism to address gender-based violence, institutional racism, and homophobia in U.S. society, Unruly Souls explores the intersectional feminist activism among young people within Islam and Evangelical Christianity. These religious misfits-marginalized from traditional religious spaces due to their sexuality, gender, or race-employ the creative tactics of digital media in their work to seek justice and to display their fundamental equality in the eyes of God. Through an analysis of various digital projects from hip-hop music videos and Instagram accounts to Twitter hashtags and podcasts, Kristin Peterson argues that the hybrid, flexible, playful, and sensory nature of digital media facilitate intersectional feminist activism within and beyond religious communities. Drawing on work from queer theory, decolonial theory, and Black feminist theory, this study explores how those who have been marginalized are able to effectively deploy their disregarded status along with digital media tactics to cultivate empathetic communities for those recovering from religious trauma.

Howard, Nathan D., Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Rhetoric of Masculinity. 2023 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <672-164>
ISBN 978-1-316-51476-4 hard ¥25,938.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

In this book, Nathan Howard explores gender and identity formation in fourth-century Cappadocia, where pro-Nicene bishops used a rhetoric of contest that aligned with conventions of classical Greek masculinity. Howard demonstrates that epistolary exhibitions served as 'a locus for' asserting manhood in the fourth century. These performances illustrate how a culture of orality that had defined manhood among civic elites was reframed as a contest whereby one accrued status through merits of composition. Howard shows how the Cappadocians' rhetoric also reordered the body and materiality as components of a maleness over which they moderated. He interrogates fourth-century theological conflict as part of a rhetorical battle over claims to manhood that supported the Cappadocians' theology and cast doubt on non-Trinitarian rivals, whom they cast as effeminate and disingenuous. Investigating accounts of pro-Nicene protagonists overcoming struggles, Howard establishes that tropes based on classical standards of gender contributed to the formation of Trinitarian orthodoxy.

Kasmani, Omar, Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan. 224 pp. 2022:5 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-167>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1541-3 hard ¥23,101.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1803-2 paper ¥6,046.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan's most important site of Sufi pilgrimage. Conjoining queer theory and the anthropology of Islam, Kasmani outlines the felt and enfleshed ways in which saintly affections bind individuals, society, and the state in Pakistan through a public architecture of intimacy. Islamic saints become lovers and queer companions just as a religious universe is made valuable to critical and queer forms of thinking. Focusing on the lives of ascetics known as fakirs in Pakistan, Kasmani shows how the affective bonds with the place's patron saint, a thirteenth-century antinomian mystic, foster unstraight modes of living in the present. In a national context where religious shrines are entangled in the state's infrastructures of governance, coming close to saints further entails a drawing near to more-than-official histories and public forms of affect. Through various fakir life stories, Kasmani contends that this intimacy offers a form of queer world making with saints.

Kline, Caroline, Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness. 272 pp. 2022:6 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <672-168>
ISBN 978-0-252-04436-6 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08643-4 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to contend with longstanding tensions surrounding gender and race. Yet women of color in the United States and across the Global South adopt and adapt the faith to their contexts, many sharing the high level of satisfaction expressed by Latter-day Saints in general. Caroline Kline explores the ways Latter-day Saint women of color in Mexico, Botswana, and the United States navigate gender norms, but also how their moral priorities and actions challenge Western feminist assumptions. Kline analyzes these traditional religious women through non-oppressive connectedness, a worldview that blends elements of female empowerment and liberation with a broader focus on fostering positive and productive relationships in different realms. Even as members of a patriarchal institution, the women feel a sense of liberation that empowers them to work against oppression and against alienation from both God and other human beings. Vivid and groundbreaking, Mormon Women at the Crossroads merges interviews with theory to offer a rare discussion of Latter-day Saint women from a global perspective.

Moletsane, Relebohile / Wiebesiek, Lisa et al. (eds.), Ethical Practice in Participatory Visual Research with Girls: Transnational Approaches. (Transnational Girlhoods 2) 240 pp. 2021:3 (Berghahn, US) <672-14>
ISBN 978-1-80073-033-5 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Girls and young women, particularly those from rural and indigenous communities around the world, face some of the most adverse social issues in the world despite the existence of protective laws and international treaties. Ethical Practice in Participatory Visual Research with Girls explores the potential of participatory visual method (PVM) for girls and young women in these communities, presenting and critiquing the everyday ethical dilemmas visual researchers face and the strategies they implement to address them, reflecting on principles of autonomy, social justice, and beneficence in transnational, indigenous and rural contexts.

Burack, Cynthia, How Trump and the Christian Right Saved LGBTI Human Rights: A Religious Freedom Mystery. (SUNY Series in Queer Politics and Cultures) 2022:6 (State U. New York Pr., US) <672-142>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8883-7 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Roesch, Claudia, Wunschkinder: Eine transnationale Geschichte der Familienplanung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. (Kulturen des Entscheidens 7) 323 S. 2021:11 (Vandenhoeck, GW) <672-1262>
ISBN 978-3-525-35697-5 hard ¥17,017.- (税込) EUR 70.00 *

Wie wurden Kinder im 20. Jahrhundert zu Wunschkindern? Wie wurde Nachwuchs zu etwas, das bewusst geplant wurde? Dieses Buch untersucht die Geschichte der Familienplanung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in einem transnationalen Ansatz. Dabei betrachtet es zunaechst die Geschichte der Geburtenkontrolle in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus, dann die Entstehung der Familienplanung in den USA. In seinem Hauptteil analysiert es die Debatten ueber Sterilisation und die Anti-Baby-Pille in den 1960er Jahren, die Frauenbewegung der 1970er Jahre und die Reform der Abtreibung aus Sicht der Befuerworter und Gegner.

Skidmore, Colleen, Rare Merit: Women in Photography in Canada, 1840-1940. 325 pp. 2022:6 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <672-1269>
ISBN 978-0-7748-6705-4 paper ¥8,963.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

Rare Merit is a beautifully illustrated and astute examination of women photographers in Canada as it took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Throughout, the camera was both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, captured people and places that were entirely new to the lens. This book shows how they did so, and the meaning their work carries.

Stieldorf, Andrea / Dohmen, Linda u. a. (Hrsg.), Geschlecht macht Herrschaft / Gender Power Sovereignty: Interdisziplinaere Studien zu vormoderner Macht und Herrschaft / Interdisciplinary Studies on Premodern Power. (Macht und Herrschaft 15) 380 S. 2021:12 (V & R unipress, GW) <672-1273>
ISBN 978-3-8471-1343-0 hard ¥14,586.- (税込) EUR 60.00

Die Kategorie ?Gender‘ ist im Themenfeld von Macht und Herrschaft massgebend. Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes steht die Interaktion oder vielleicht auch Komplementaritaet von ?maennlicher‘ und ?weiblicher‘ Herrschaft bzw. der Herrschaftsanteile von Maennern und Frauen. Die biologischen Geschlechterkategorien ?Mann‘ und ?Frau‘ und die mit ihnen verbundenen sozialen und kulturellen Rollenzuschreibungen dienen nicht als oppositionelle, dichotomische Begriffe oder Konzepte, sondern als Analysekategorie, ohne die Macht und Herrschaft nicht angemessen untersucht werden koennen. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beitraege haben einen Schwerpunkt im (latein-)europaeischen Raum, reichen aber geographisch von China bis nach Aegypten, sie bewegen sich zeitlich zwischen dem 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. und dem 16. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Untersucht werden schriftliche Quellen, aber auch Bildzeugnisse und die materielle Kultur.

Stoegner, Karin / Colligs, Alexandra (Hrsg.), Kritische Theorie und Feminismus. (stw 2360) 500 S. 2022:3 (Suhrkamp, GW) <672-1274>
ISBN 978-3-518-29960-9 paper ¥5,834.- (税込) EUR 24.00 *

Kritische Theorie und Feminismus ? unter diesem Titel wird aus soziologischer, philosophischer und psychoanalytischer Perspektive das Spannungsverhaeltnis zwischen zwei Theorieparadigmen beleuchtet, die beide fuer Emanzipation einstehen. Die Beitraege, u. a. von Regina Becker-Schmidt, Seyla Benhabib, Nancy Fraser, Rahel Jaeggi, Sarah Speck und Barbara Umrath, beschaeftigen sich mit Fragen von Subjektivitaet und Identitaet, Ideologie und Diskriminierung sowie von Arbeit und Koerper. Sie knuepfen zum einen an vergangene Debatten an und beleuchten zum anderen neue Aspekte einer feministischen kritischen Theorie.

Threlkeld, Megan, Citizens of the World: U.S. Women and Global Government. (Power, Politics, and the World) 288 pp. 2022:6 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <672-1276>
ISBN 978-0-8122-5398-6 hard ¥8,963.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

Between 1900 and 1950, many internationalist U.S. women referred to themselves as "citizens of the world." This book argues that the phrase was not simply a rhetorical flourish; it represented a demand to participate in shaping the global polity and an expression of women's obligation to work for peace and equality. The nine women profiled here invoked world citizenship as they promoted world government-a permanent machinery to end war, whether in the form of the League of Nations, the United Nations, or a full-fledged world federation. These women agreed neither on the best form for such a government nor on the best means to achieve it, and they had different definitions of peace and different levels of commitment to genuine equality. But they all saw themselves as part of a global effort to end war that required their participation in the international body politic. Excluded from full national citizenship, they saw in the world polity opportunities for engagement and equality as well as for peace. Claiming world citizenship empowered them on the world stage. It gave them a language with which to advocate for international cooperation. Citizens of the World not only provides a more complete understanding of the kind of world these women envisioned and the ways in which they claimed membership in the global community. It also draws attention to the ways in which they were excluded from international institution-building and to the critiques many of them leveled at those institutions. Women's arguments for world government and their practices of world citizenship represented an alternative reaction to the crises of the first half of the twentieth century, one predicated on cooperation and equality rather than competition and force.

Vanacker, Beatrijs / van Deinsen, Lieke (eds.), Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe. 400 pp. 2022:4 (Leuven U. Pr., BE) <672-1278>
ISBN 978-94-6270-330-8 paper ¥20,735.- (税込) EUR 65.00

Weikert, Katherine / Woodacre, Elena (eds.), Medieval Intersections: Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages. 130 pp. 2021:11 (Berghahn, US) <672-1280>
ISBN 978-1-80073-154-7 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80073-155-4 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Status and gender are two closely associated concepts within medieval society, which tended to view both notions as binary: elite or low status, married or single, holy or cursed, male or female, or as complementary and cohesive as multiple parts of a societal whole. With contributions on topics ranging from medieval leprosy to boyhood behaviors, this interdisciplinary collection highlights the various ways "status" can be interpreted relative to gender, and what these two interlocked concepts can reveal about the construction of gendered identities in the Middle Ages.

Wiese, Rene / Jandausch, Kathleen (ed.), Schwestern im Geiste: Briefwechsel zwischen Grossherzogin Alexandrine von Mecklenburg-Schwerin und Koenigin Elisabeth von Preussen. Teil 1: 1824-1850. (Quellen und Studien aus den Landesarchiven Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns 23) 575 S. 2021:8 (Boehlau, GW) <672-1283>
ISBN 978-3-412-52224-7 hard ¥13,370.- (税込) EUR 55.00 *

Zinn, Alexander, Von "Staatsfeinden" zu "Ueberbleibseln der kapitalistischen Ordnung": Homosexuelle in Sachsen 1933-1968. (Berichte und Studien 86) 451 S. 2021:12 (V & R unipress, GW) <672-1285>
ISBN 978-3-8471-1322-5 paper ¥13,370.- (税込) EUR 55.00 *

In der NS-Zeit wurden Homosexuelle zu ≫Staatsfeinden≪ erklaert. Ihre Verfolgung wurde massiv verschaerft und zielte nicht mehr nur auf bestimmte sexuelle Handlungen, sondern auf die ≫Ausmerzung≪ der Homosexualitaet schlechthin. Nach 1945 hofften viele auf ein Ende der Verfolgung, doch sowohl in West- wie auch in Ostdeutschland wurde sie schon bald wieder intensiviert. Die DDR diskreditierte Homosexuelle nun als ≫Ueberbleibsel der kapitalistischen Gesellschaftsordnung≪. Im Gegensatz zum NS-Regime setzte sie bei der Bekaempfung der Homosexualitaet aber nicht mehr nur auf das Strafrecht, sondern zunehmend auch auf Erziehungsmassnahmen. Mit Sachsen untersucht die Studie die regionalen Auswirkungen dieser Politik in einem Flaechenland und fragt nach Unterschieden zu anderen Regionen. During the Nazi era, homosexuals were declared "enemies of the state". Their persecution was massively intensified and was no longer aimed only at specific sexual acts, but at the "eradication" of homosexuality per se. After 1945, many hoped for an end to the persecution, but it was soon intensified again in both West and East Germany. The GDR now discredited homosexuals as "remnants of the capitalist social order." In contrast to the Nazi regime, however, it no longer relied solely on criminal law to combat homosexuality, but increasingly also on educational measures. Using Saxony as a case study, the study examines the regional effects of this policy in a German state and asks about differences to other regions.

Morse, Nicole Erin, Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art. 200 pp. 2022:4 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-130>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1551-2 hard ¥22,427.- (税込) US$ 99.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1814-8 paper ¥5,822.- (税込) US$ 25.95 *

In Selfie Aesthetics Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore transition, selfhood, and relationality. Morse contends that rather than being understood as shallow emblems of a narcissistic age, selfies can produce politically meaningful encounters between creators and viewers. Through close readings of selfies and other digital artworks by trans feminist artists, Morse details a set of formal strategies they call selfie aesthetics: doubling, improvisation, seriality, and nonlinear temporality. Morse traces these strategies in the work of Zackary Drucker, Vivek Shraya, Tourmaline, Alok Vaid-Menon, Zinnia Jones, and Natalie Wynn, showing how these artists present improvisational identities and new modes of performative resistance by conveying the materialities of trans life. Morse shows how the interaction between selfie creators and viewers constructs collective modes of being and belonging in ways that envision trans feminist futures. By demonstrating the aesthetic depth and political potential of selfie creation, distribution, and reception, Morse deepens understandings of gender performativity and trans experience.

Thaggert, Miriam, Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad. (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) 240 pp. 2022:6 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <672-1192>
ISBN 978-0-252-04452-6 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08659-5 paper ¥5,149.- (税込) US$ 22.95 *

Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to "ride Jim Crow" on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the travel narratives of Black female intellectuals such as Anna Julia Cooper and Mary Church Terrell; Black middle-class women who sued to ride in first class "ladies' cars"; Black women railroad food vendors; and Black maids on Pullman trains. Thaggert argues that the railroad represented a technological advancement that was entwined with African American attempts to secure social progress. Black women's experiences on or near the railroad illustrate how American technological progress has often meant their ejection or displacement; thus, it is the Black woman who most fully measures the success of American freedom and privilege, or "progress," through her travel experiences.

Zepeda, Susy J., Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas: Remembering Xicana Indigena Ancestries. (Transformations: Womanist, Feminist, and Indigenous Studies) 224 pp. 2022:8 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <672-1198>
ISBN 978-0-252-04453-3 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08660-1 paper ¥5,610.- (税込) US$ 25.00 *

Acts of remembering offer a path to decolonization for Indigenous peoples forcibly dislocated from their culture, knowledge, and land. Susy J. Zepeda highlights the often overlooked yet intertwined legacies of Chicana feminisms and queer decolonial theory through the work of select queer Indigena cultural producers and thinkers. By tracing the ancestries and silences of gender-nonconforming people of color, she addresses colonial forms of epistemic violence and methods of transformation, in particular spirit research. Zepeda also uses archival materials, raised ceremonial altars, and analysis of decolonial artwork in conjunction with oral histories to explore the matriarchal roots of Chicana/x and Latina/x feminisms. As she shows, these feminisms are forms of knowledge that people can remember through Indigenous-centered visual narratives, cultural wisdom, and spirit practices. A fascinating exploration of hidden Indigena histories and silences, Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas blends scholarship with spirit practices to reimagine the root work, dis/connection to land, and the political decolonization of Xicana/x peoples.

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Becher, Matthias / Fischelmanns, A. / Gahbler, K. (Hrsg.), Vormoderne Macht und Herrschaft: Geschlechterdimensionen und Spannungsfelder. (Macht und Herrschaft 12) 403 S. 2021:11 (Bonn U. Pr., GW) <672-1202>
ISBN 978-3-8471-1338-6 hard ¥14,586.- (税込) EUR 60.00

Ein transkultureller Vergleich von Macht und Herrschaft eroeffnet neue und umfassende Einblicke in das Funktionieren politischer Strukturen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Die Beruecksichtigung von Geschlechterdimensionen ist fuer ein umfassendes Verstaendnis unumgaenglich. Dieser Band versammelt dreizehn Beitraege unterschiedlicher Faechergruppen, die sich Fragestellungen zu Macht, Herrschaft und Geschlechterordnungen in der sogenannten Vormoderne widmen. Eheliche Beziehungen von Herrschenden oder Fragen nach der Funktion und Stabilitaet von Herrschaftssystemen werden ebenso unter die Lupe genommen wie das Patriarchat als ueberdauerndes Herrschaftssystem fuer sich. So bietet der Band sowohl konkrete Einzelfallstudien als auch theoretische Ueberlegungen zu Machtausuebungen und Herrschaftsstrukturen und die kritische Ueberpruefung von Forschungsansaetzen; er zeichnet so ein hochkomplexes, vielfaeltiges und teils auch widerspruechliches Bild, das aus vergangenen Macht- und Herrschaftskonfigurationen ueberliefert ist. In einer Zusammenfassung werden die Beitraege (unter Bezugnahme auf Band 11 der Schriftenreihe ?Macht und Herrschaft‘) kritisch reflektiert, Ergebnisse zusammengefuehrt und Gedankengaenge verknuepft, so dass sich ein Gesamtbild erschliesst, das der transkulturellen Forschung von ?Macht‘ und ?Herrschaft‘ neue Richtungen weist und wertvolle Impulse gibt. This volume gathers thirteen contributions from different scientific disciplines that are dedicated to questions of power, domination and gender in pre-modern times. For instance, it examines marital relationships of rulers, questions the function and stability of ruling systems and investigates patriarchy as an enduring ruling system as such. Thus, the volume offers individual case studies as well as theoretical reflections on the exercise of power and structures of domination, and then also takes a critical look on research approaches. It presents a highly complex, diverse and sometimes contradictory picture of power and domination. In conclusion, it offers (with reference to volume 11 of the publication series ‘Macht und Herrschaft’) critical reflections, outlines joining ideas and, thus, gives valuable suggestions for future investigations of ‘power’, ‘domination’ and ‘gender’ in a transcultural perspective.

Campbell, Lara / Dawson, Michael / Gidney, Catherine (eds.), Feeling Feminism: Activism, Affect, and Canada's Second-Wave. 296 pp. 2022:3 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <672-1208>
ISBN 978-0-7748-6650-7 hard ¥20,183.- (税込) US$ 89.95 *

From beauty pageant protests to fire bombings of pornographic video stores, emotions are a powerful but often unexamined force underlying feminist activism. Feeling Feminism examines the ways in which anger, rage, joy, and hopefulness shaped and nourished second-wave feminist theorizing and action across Canada. Drawing on affect theory to convey the passion, sense of possibility, and collective political commitment that has characterized feminism, contributors reveal its full impact on contemporary Canada and highlight the contested, sometimes exclusionary nature of the movement itself. The insights in this remarkable collection show the power of emotions, desires, and actions to transform the world.

D'Arcangelis, Carol Lynne, The Solidarity Encounter: Women, Activism, and Creating Non-Colonizing Relations. 300 pp. 2022:4 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <672-1213>
ISBN 978-0-7748-6381-0 hard ¥20,183.- (税込) US$ 89.95 *

On the heels of recent revelations of past and ongoing injustices, reconciliation and solidarity by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people has become even more urgent. But it is a complex endeavour. The Solidarity Encounter takes readers into the fraught terrain of solidarity organizing in settler colonial North America. The investigation grapples with a key tension: colonizing behaviours that result when white women centre their own goals and frameworks as they participate in activism with Indigenous women and groups. However, the book concludes with hope, offering a constructive framework for non-colonizing solidarity that can be applied in any context of unequal power.

Durante, Dawn (comp.), Women's Activist Organizing in US History: A University of Illinois Press Anthology. (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) 282 pp. 2022:4 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <672-1215>
ISBN 978-0-252-04434-2 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08641-0 paper ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

Women in the United States organized around their own sense of a distinct set of needs, skills, and concerns. And just as significant as women's acting on their own behalf was the fact that race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity shaped their strategies and methods. This authoritative anthology presents some of the powerful work and ideas about activism published in the acclaimed series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History. Assembled to commemorate the series' thirty-fifth anniversary, the collection looks at two hundred years of labor, activist, legal, political, and community organizing by women against racism, misogyny, white supremacy, and inequality. The authors confront how the multiple identities of an organization's members presented challenging dilemmas and share the histories of how women created change by working against inequitable social and structural systems. Insightful and provocative, Women's Activist Organizing in US History draws on both classic texts and recent bestsellers to reveal the breadth of activism by women in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Contributors: Daina Ramey Berry, Melinda Chateauvert, Tiffany M. Gill, Nancy A. Hewitt, Treva B. Lindsey, Anne Firor Scott, Charissa J. Threat, Anne M. Valk, Lara Vapnek, and Deborah Gray White

Fahs, Breanne, Unshaved: Resistance and Revolution in Women's Body Hair Politics. 2022:6 (U. Washington Pr., US) <672-1219>
ISBN 978-0-295-75027-9 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *
ISBN 978-0-295-75028-6 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Body hair, especially on women, provokes, disrupts, and, at times, offends. It is tangled up with culture itself-in art, families, workplaces, relationships, sex, the beauty industry, governments, and capitalism. From Chinese activists challenging the Communist Party, to students in Arizona rejecting their family and workplace ideas about grooming, to high-art feminist photographers boldly featuring hairy women, Fahs deftly explores the volatile and ever-changing landscape of women's body hair politics. She showcases an underground movement of artists, zine-makers, rebels, and activists who have used women's visible body hair as a declaration of freedom from patriarchal norms.Fahs presents body hair not just as a personal grooming choice but as a connection to broader cultural stories about women's reproductive rights, feminist battlegrounds about autonomy, neoliberal intrusions into beauty regimens, and even global tensions around women's place in society. Ultimately, Unshaved shows the collision between the mundane and the extraordinary, the everyday and the revolutionary.