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

Betancourt, Sofia, Ecowomanism at the Panama Canal: Black Women, Labor, and Environmental Ethics. (Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives) 162 pp. 2022:2 (Lexington Books, US) <675-944>
ISBN 978-1-79364-138-0 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

In Ecowomanism at the Panama Canal: Black Women, Labor, and Environmental Ethics, Sofia Betancourt constructs a transnational ecowomanist ethic that reclaims inherited environmental cultures across multiple sites of displacement. Betancourt argues that as survivors of the inconceivable, as carriers of cultural values and communal accountability, and as those who have never been allowed to reject or forget our their own embodiment, women in the African diaspora have a unique understanding of how a moral refusal to compromise their humanity provides the very understanding needed to survive what was once an inconceivable level of environmental devastation. That wisdom redefines our ideas of survival itself, and in doing so gives us new knowledge on what it means to live a value-centered, human life. This understanding of human nature and its interrelatedness with all of creation draws from the moral wisdom of women in the African diaspora. Most specifically, this work is guided by the experiences of West Indian women, imported to Panama by the United States from across the Caribbean, whose labor supported the building of the Panama Canal-the so-called silver men and women who faced mud, mosquitoes, and malaria while building a literal pathway to American empire.

Malabou, Catherine, Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought. Tr. by C. Shread. 150 pp. 2022:6 (Polity Pr., UK) <675-83>
ISBN 978-1-5095-4992-4 hard ¥9,702.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-4993-1 paper ¥2,791.- (税込) US$ 12.95 *

The clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired in our times: today, the clitoris is not forgotten but honoured. Conferences, books, manifestos, works of art are all devoted to it. The autonomy of clitoral jouissance is recognized. The boundaries of feminism have also moved: queer, intersex and trans approaches claim that the clitoris is perhaps no longer the exclusive preserve of the woman. And yet, there remains a wounded space. Because genital mutilation is still common practice. Because millions of women are still denied pleasure. The clitoris continues to mark the enigmatic space of the feminine. Constrained by the extreme difficulty and the extreme urgency of returning to this scorched earth, it is time to give voice to an organ of pleasure which has still not become an organ of thought.

Wesoky, Sharon / Song, Shaopeng (ed.), Chinese Modernity and Socialist Feminist Theory. (Routledge Contemporary China Series) 240 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-831>
ISBN 978-0-367-76644-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book assembles translations of the work of leading critical socialist feminist Song Shaopeng, presenting a concise narrative which theorizes China's political and social development through a gendered lens.Providing insightful editor introductions, the book explores poignant themes from the late imperial to the contemporary eras to examine the evolution of Chinese socialist feminism. This includes analysis of the relationship between the party-state and the women's movement, the gains and losses of collectivism for women's liberation, and the inadequacy of contemporary gender studies in China at addressing the ongoing influence of political economy on the lives of women in China. Offering a succinct exploration of the historical and theoretical context of Song Shaopeng's writings, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Chinese history and politics, as well as those of Chinese feminism and intellectual history.

Tanter, Marcy L. / Park, Moises (eds.), Here Comes the Flood: Perspectives of Gender, Sexuality, and Stereotype in the Korean Wave. 2022:3 (Lexington Books, US) <675-842>
ISBN 978-1-79363-630-0 hard ¥23,931.- (税込) US$ 111.00 *

This collection breaks down the stereotypes often expected of Korean popular culture, specifically examining issues of gender, sexuality, and stereotype in a variety of cultural products including K-pop, K-drama, and cover dancing through the lens of how "Koreanness" can be defined. A diverse range of of contributors showcase how Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, began as a wave rolling across Asia and morphed into a tsunami that has impacted every continent, making Korean popular culture an industry that draws in fans on a global scale. The stereotypes and issues being explored in this collection, contributors argue, are intertwined with how Koreans both at home and in the diaspora portray themselves publicly and consider themselves privately. In tandem with this, international fans of Hallyu take part in the conversation through performance and imitation, either reinforcing or breaking away from these stereotypes. Contributors examine a wide variety of settings to connect the concepts of traditional Korean values to modern Korean society in a symbiotic relationship between these values and cultural content creators. Scholars of media studies, pop culture, gender studies, Asian studies, sociology, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.

Kamp, Alanna, Intersectional Lives: Chinese Australian Women in White Australia. (Routledge International Studies of Women and Place) 204 pp. 2022:4 (Routledge, UK) <675-856>
ISBN 978-0-367-67429-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Intersectional Lives explores the varied experiences of Chinese Australian females across time and place during the White Australia Policy era (1901-1973). Chinese Australian women's personal reflections are examined alongside postcolonial feminist readings of official records to illustrate how their everyday lives were influenced by multiple and fluid identities and subject positions including migrant, mother, daughter, wife, student, worker, entrepreneur and cultural custodian. This book provides new ways to conceptualise Chinese females in the diaspora as gendered, classed, culturally varied and racialised individuals with multiple forms of oppression, agency and mobility. It offers a revision of patriarchal understandings of Chinese Australian history and broader understandings of overseas Chinese migrations and settlement experiences. It also demonstrates how historical geography, informed by postcolonial feminist approaches, can facilitate more nuanced understandings of past (and present) times and places that include women's diverse experiences at the domestic, local, national and international scale.This book will appeal to social and cultural geographers with additional audiences of interest in history and historical geography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, diaspora studies, migration studies, and gender and feminist studies.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 (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Pillai, Meena T., Affective Feminisms in Digital India: Intimate Rebels. 220 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-868>
ISBN 978-1-03-232283-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book studies digital feminist activism in contemporary India. It provides a close and comprehensive analysis of the postmillennial digital moment in India which has given rise to new modes of women's digital dissent. The volume examines how anti-rape narratives, Feminichy scandals, #MeToo movements, and menstrual activisms, amongst a host of other performative feminist dissent and their discursive medialities create 'affective digital feminisms' which both break with and continue the residual and emergent practices within feminisms in India. It looks at digital womanspeak from India and focuses on vernacular forms of dissent, through which the author aims to decolonize feminist imaginaries from their moorings in the West. The author explores new digital, cultural, and social geographies where politically untamed women use their precarity to unsettle deep sexist structures and mount a gendered critique of the political economy of the nation state.An important contribution to the study of feminism in India, the volume will be useful for students and researchers of gender and women's studies, cultural studies, digital sociology, intersectional feminism, transnational feminism, digital humanities, and South Asian studies. It will also be appeal to readers interested in the history of women's dissent in India.

Alqaisiya, Walaa, The Politics and Aesthetics of Decolonial Queering in Palestine. (Theorizing Ethnography) 192 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-876>
ISBN 978-1-03-221085-8 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This book provides a vivid account of the political valence of weaving queer into native positionality and the struggle for decolonisation in the settler colonial context of Palestine, referred to as decolonial queering. It discusses how processes of gender and sexuality that privilege hetero-colonising authority shaped and continue to define both the Israeli-Zionist conquest of Palestine and the Palestinian struggle for liberation, thus future imaginings of free Palestine. This account emerges directly from the voices and experiences of Palestinian activists and artists; particularly, it draws on fieldwork with Palestine's most established queer grassroots movement, alQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society, and a variety of artistic Palestinian productions (photography, fashion, music, performance, and video art). Offering a comprehensive and in-depth engagement with the situated context, history, and local practices of Palestinian queerness, scholars, students, and activists across (de)colonial, race, and gender/sexuality studies would appreciate its unique insights; its empirical focus also reaches to those academics in the wider fields of Middle Eastern, anthropological, and political studies.

Ipadeola, Abosede Priscilla, Feminist African Philosophy: Women and the Politics of Difference. (Routledge Studies in African Philosophy) 184 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-74>
ISBN 978-1-03-213130-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The book argues that women's perspectives and gender issues must be mainstreamed across African philosophy in order for the discipline to truly represent the thoughts of Africans across the continent.African philosophy as an academic discipline emerged as a direct challenge to Western and Eurocentric hegemonies. It sought to actualize the project of decolonization and to contribute African perspectives to global discourses. There has, however, been a dominance of male perspectives in this field of human knowledge. This book argues that African philosophy cannot claim to have liberated people of African descent from marginalization until the androcentric nature of African philosophy is addressed. Key concepts such as Ujamaa, Negritude, Ubuntu, Consciencism, and African Socialism are explored as they relate to African women's lives or as models of inclusion or exclusion from politics. In addition to offering a feminist critique of African philosophy, the book also discusses topics that have been consistently overlooked in African philosophy. These topics include sex, sexuality, rape, motherhood, prostitution, and the low participation of women in politics.By highlighting the work of women feminist scholars such as Oyeronke Oyewumi, Nkiru Nzegwu, Ifi Amadiume, Amina Mama, and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, the book engages with African philosophy from an African feminist viewpoint. This book will be an essential resource for students and researchers of African philosophy and gender studies.

Goswami, Uddipana, Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency. (Routledge Advances in Feminist Peace Research) 176 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-772>
ISBN 978-1-03-221107-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book forwards Assam (and Northeast India) as a specific location for studying operations of gendered power in multi-ethnic, conflict-habituated geopolitical peripheries globally. In the shifting and relational margins of such peripheral societies, power and agency are constantly negotiated and in flux. Notions of masculinity are redefined in an interlaced environment of militarization, hyper-masculinization, and gendered violence. These interconnections inform victimhood and agency among the most vulnerable marginalized constituencies - namely, women and migrants. By centering the marginalized in its inquiry, the book analyzes obstacles to achieving positive, organic peace based on cooperation and mutual healing. The tools used to perpetuate an endless cycle of violence that makes conflict a habit - a way of life - are identified in order to enable resistance against them from within the margins. Such resistance must be based on reflexivity and strategic, cautious radicalism. This involves critically interrogating the inherent connections between engendered pasts and feminist futures, local changes and global contexts, as well as between small, incremental changes and big shifts impacting entire societies, nations, and global orders.This book will be of much interest to students of ethnic conflict, conflict resolution, feminist peace, and Asian/South Asian politics.

Joshi, Devin K. / Echle, Christian (eds.), Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments. (Politics in Asia) 296 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-794>
ISBN 978-1-03-223148-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-223146-4 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with national parliamentarians from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyze and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia.As of the year 2022, no country in Asia has gender parity in its parliament. Meanwhile, the proportion of national-level women parliamentarians in Asia averages a mere 20%. What is more important than simple descriptive representation, however, is whether outcomes for women are improving. Rather than focusing on numerical representation, the chapters in this book focus on the substantive representation of women. In other words, what do women and men parliamentarians do to advance women's well-being and gender equality? Using semi-structured interviews, the author of each chapter examines these efforts in the context of a specific Asian country. The case studies include Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Timor-Leste.The book is an essential resource for scholars and students of Asian politics and the politics of gender.

Tsukamoto, Sachiyo, The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese "Comfort Women". (Gender in a Global/Local World) 184 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <675-813>
ISBN 978-1-03-206746-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Joint Winner of the Carole Pateman Gender and Politics Book Prize 2023https://auspsa.org.au/prizes-and-awards/carole-pateman-gender-and-politics-book-prize/The Politics of Trauma and Integrity uses the lenses of gender and trauma to tell the stories of narratives testified by two contrasting Japanese "comfort women" survivors.Through an innovative interdisciplinary study of the politics of gendered memory and trauma in a historical context, with numerous primary sources for analysis including diaries, interviews, letters and oral testimonies, this book uncovers the life- or- death struggles of Japanese survivors in pursuit of public recognition as the victims of state violence against women. It is set within a gender history of modern Japan, supplemented by feminist activist methodology premised upon political agency that seeks social justice. The author's analysis draws upon three key concepts: trauma, coherence of the self and integrity. Focusing upon the role of gender and trauma as the nexus between memory construction and identity formation in modern Japan, the author reveals these women's relentless quest for their recovery and the creation of new identities.This book provides a better understanding of the victims of sexual violence and encourages readers to listen to the voice of trauma, as well as making a significant contribution to the existing research on the ongoing history of sexual violence against women in Japan, the rest of Asia and beyond. It will be of interest to scholars, researchers, activists and all who are concerned about the issue of women's human rights. It provides supplementary reading and research material for history and politics courses relating to Japan and East Asia, memory, identity, trauma, gender, war and feminist activism. This book will also be beneficial to victims of sexual violence as well as the counsellors/ psychologists engaging with them.Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com

Buist, Carrie L. / Lenning, Emily, Queer Criminology. 2nd ed. (New Directions in Critical Criminology) 264 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-553>
ISBN 978-0-367-76022-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-76023-6 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This book surveys the growing field of Queer Criminology. It reflects on its origins, reviews its foundational research and scholarship and offers suggestions for future directions. Moreover, this book emphasizes the importance of Queer Criminology in the field and the need to move LGBTQ+ issues from the margins to the center of criminological research. Core content includes:* Contested definitions of and conceptual frameworks for Queer Criminology* The criminalization of queerness and gender identity in historical and contemporary context* The relationship between LGBTQ+ communities and law enforcement* The impact of legislation and court decisions on LGBTQ+ communities* The experiences of queer victims and offenders under correctional supervisionThis revised and updated edition includes new developments in theory and research, further coverage of international issues and a new chapter on victimization and offending. It is essential reading for those engaged with queer, critical, and feminist criminologies, gender studies, diversity, and criminal justice.

Burdick, Melanie N., Literacy Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Women: Sentences and Sponsors. 150 pp. 2021:5 (Lexington Books, US) <675-554>
ISBN 978-1-79361-523-7 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

Literacy Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Women: Sentences and Sponsors focuses on a narrative research study of the literacy experiences of formerly incarcerated women and how these experiences have affected their lives, both while incarcerated and while transitioning back into society. Using Deborah Brandt's theory of literacy sponsorship (1998), Melanie N. Burdick explores the mass incarceration of women, and their access to literacy and higher education while incarcerated, as feminist and social justice issues. Although discussions of reading and writing as a part of correctional education are often romanticized, offering views of incarcerated people who become enlightened and reformed, Burdick identifies these romanticizes views and criticizes their controlling and harmful effects. This book shines a light on the personal and political ramifications of literacy experiences in women's lives as they grow up in families and schools, move through the prison system, and transition back into society and higher education, arguing that literacy is politically situated and that transitioning out of prison is a complex process marked by literate acts that are dependent upon literacy sponsorship.

Marshall, Jocelyn E. / Skibba, Candace (eds.), Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the Classroom. 260 pp. 2022:7 (Emerald, UK) <675-566>
ISBN 978-1-80071-498-4 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

Gender-based violence is an issue often met with silence, unempathetic discourse, and troublesome visual representation. As educators, mentors, and public facilitators, how can we address this subject in our teaching spaces, curricula, texts, and conversations with greater care and understanding? And, what do we need as resources to cultivate these deeper insights and new roads to increased awareness and dynamic healing? Building decentered and empowering spaces is vital to addressing gender-based violence. In an educational setting, this must take into consideration instructors', students', and other professionals' own histories of and relationships to traumatic experience. The authors provide a cross-disciplinary dialogue involving spaces ranging from first-year writing programs to international classrooms to public art installation. What holds the conversation together is a collective emphasis on transnational feminist pedagogy and pedagogy of the oppressed while also prioritizing affective discourse. This combination of approaches is used to not only open the conversation itself, but to also pointedly deconstruct standard patriarchal practices found in academia and other institutional settings. With contributions from scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines, cultures and educational backgrounds, Trauma-Informed Pedagogy brings visibility to perpetuated violence and silence through a range of genres, including poetry, syllabi, and critical reflections, offering an invaluable resource for instructors and workshop facilitators interested in approaches that decentralize learning spaces and empowers all participants.

Persson, Sofia / Dhingra, Katie, Rape Myths: Understanding, Assessing, and Preventing. (Feminist Developments in Violence and Abuse) 252 pp. 2022:7 (Emerald, UK) <675-569>
ISBN 978-1-80071-153-2 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

Myths and misconceptions surrounding sexual violence are thought to be implicated in the prevalence of rape and in the lack of justice for women who have been subjected to rape. Rape Myths comprehensively examines the theoretical background, prevalence, assessment, and functions of these beliefs. Outlining the meaning and feminist foundations of rape myths, this book also considers their conceptualisation as the measurable construct of Rape Myth Acceptance (RMA). Drawing on the authors' research, the book details the prevalence of RMA among different public and professional groups, as well as the societal consequences of these pervasive beliefs, particularly in terms of treatment within the criminal justice system. RMA is considered in the crucial context of its scaffolding within wider sexism in society and its perpetuation in the media. Looking ahead, Persson and Dhingra question how well rape myth prevention works. Can society reduce the prevalence of these beliefs? If so, how? Including a detailed overview of the psychometric properties of tools used to measure RMA, and a methodological manual for designing and executing research in this area, Rape Myths is a practical guide for those seeking to research rape myths and other attributions in rape cases.

Russell, Brenda / Hamel, John (eds.), Gender and Domestic Violence: Contemporary Legal Practice and Intervention Reforms. 424 pp. 2022:7 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <675-573>
ISBN 978-0-19-756402-8 hard ¥20,697.- (税込) US$ 96.00 *

Over the past 40 years, considerable progress has been made in lowering rates of domestic violence in our communities. This progress has been uneven, however, due to continuing misconceptions about the causes and dynamics of domestic violence, which include an exaggerated focus on males as perpetrators and females as victims, as well as a heavy-handed law enforcement response that compromises the rights of criminal defendants without necessarily reducing violence. Gender and Domestic Violence presents empirical research findings and reform recommendations for prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys, policy makers and intervention providers with the aim of rectifying shortcomings in legal and law enforcement responses to domestic violence. The volume's editors and chapter authors confront the notion that certain beliefs shared among victim advocates, legal actors, and other stakeholders -- principally that domestic violence is bound by gender, and is primarily a crime against women -- have led to the use of ineffective and potentially harmful one-size-fits-all intervention policies that can jeopardize defendant due process and victim safety. Domestic violence experts, legal scholars, and practicing attorneys present how gendered aspects of domestic violence affect legal decision-making and practice and provide strategies for becoming more inclusive in the adjudicative process, intervention/prevention, and practice. Gender and Domestic Violence: Contemporary Legal Practice and Intervention Reforms provides the foundation from which we can begin to move beyond the gender paradigm by recognizing disparities and applying tools that improve research, policing, and practice, allowing us to progress toward eradicating domestic violence, and to move closer to equality.

Rustighi, Lorenzo, Back Over the Sexual Contract: A Hegelian Critique of Patriarchy. 316 pp. 2021:12 (Lexington Books, US) <675-49>
ISBN 978-1-79363-871-7 hard ¥26,303.- (税込) US$ 122.00 *

Is patriarchy an illness of democratic societies or a structural problem? To answer this dilemma, Back Over the Sexual Contract: A Hegelian Critique of Patriarchy examines the problem of patriarchy in modern European political theory by reopening the question of the "sexual contract." Through a study of the thought of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant, Lorenzo Rustighi argues that the conceptual roots of male patriarchal entitlement should be sought in the logic of authorized power that underpins the modern understanding of both the state and the family. Challenging the mainstream distinction between the private and the public, Rustighi provocatively suggests that patriarchy is not something that undermines democracy as an alien threat, but is rather inscribed in the intrinsically anti-democratic effects of the understanding of democracy construed by the modern rationale of the social contract. He puts forward a Hegelian argument to propose an unconventional constitutional approach to feminist political theory that is intended to help us rethink democracy beyond its inherent impasses.

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McAdam, Maura, Women's Entrepreneurship. 2nd ed. (Routledge Masters in Entrepreneurship) 190 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-381>
ISBN 978-0-367-65071-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-65072-8 paper ¥13,102.- (税込) GB￡ 45.99 *

Drawing on the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a frame of reference, this new edition of Female Entrepreneurship - Women's Entrepreneurship - continues to challenge contemporary assumptions regarding who or what is an entrepreneur. It draws upon relevant literature and research to enable research-led teaching delivery and provides students with a comprehensive understanding of women's entrepreneurship and a solid foundation from which they can pursue further studies. Informative but concise, Women's Entrepreneurship covers key concepts, issues, themes and approaches and provides useful suggested topics for debate. Updates include a revised chapter on Emerging Technologies and Women's Entrepreneurship, which explores digital entrepreneurship and cyberfeminism. Contextualisation of Women's Entrepreneurship acknowledges the broader contextual influences on women's entrepreneurship. Finally, two new chapters have been added looking at The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Women's Entrepreneurship Policy. International case studies explore the socio-economic context for women's entrepreneurship in regional, national and international economies. Pedagogy to aid learning is incorporated throughout, including learning outcomes, boxes to highlight key research insights and best practice as well as discussion points and activities. This book is important supplementary reading on entrepreneurship, small business management and women's and gender studies courses - it will prove particularly useful to women moving towards starting their own business as well as postgraduate students researching the topic for the first time.

Bennett, Dinah / Gibb, Yolanda K., Entrepreneurship, Neurodiversity & Gender: Exploring Opportunities for Enterprise and Self-employment as Pathways to Fulfilling Lives. 220 pp. 2022:7 (Emerald, UK) <675-303>
ISBN 978-1-80043-058-7 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *

Drawing on inspirational stories of neurodivergent entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Neurodiversity & Gender provides insights into their respective journeys, challenges, and triumphs, alongside discussions with their allies and members of their ecosystem. Readers are offered innovations and solutions within the workplace and organisational design, employing both "neurodivergent" and "neurotypical" individuals to enable satisfying career paths for neurodivergent women. Entrepreneurship, Neurodiversity & Gender shines a spotlight on issues of intersectionality and opens the debate on how we can develop and support the options of entrepreneurship or self-employment that are offered to young people early on in their career. Yolanda Gill and Dinah Bennett aim to explore and foster greater awareness of and support through policy and practice. They also ask how can we ensure that the legal and policy environment does not create additional barriers to opportunities for enterprise and self-employment as pathways to fulfilling lives?

Ogbemudia, Joy, The Migration of Professional Women from Nigeria to the UK: Narratives of Work, Family Life and Adaptation. (Studies in Migration and Diaspora) 236 pp. 2022:7 (Routledge, UK) <675-308>
ISBN 978-0-367-70568-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Based on interviews with women who were professionals in different fields in Nigeria prior to migrating, The Migration of Professional Women from Nigeria to the UK examines the ways in which professional, middle-class women make sense of their lived experiences, their roles in migration decision-making and their experiences of adaptation in the UK. Drawing on the thought of Mead on the symbolic reconstruction of the past from the standpoint of the present, and employing a feminist approach to qualitative research, the book considers the reflexive construction of women's narratives concerning their lived experiences in Nigeria and sheds light on their decisions to migrate. Using intersectionality and critiquing the concept of "Strong Black Woman", the author analyses participants' narratives of integration, adaptation, and work and family life in the UK. Rejecting the notion of "culture shock" as a means of explaining immigrants' early experiences, the use of a "person-by-situation" approach is proposed to accommodate the nuances of individual narratives. A rich, theoretically informed study of the narratives of skilled migrants, whose experiences are often subsumed into studies of "African" migration more broadly, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and cultural geography with interests in migration, gender and the sociology of work and family life.

Shone, Steve J., Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical. 154 pp. 2022:2 (Lexington Books, US) <675-311>
ISBN 978-1-66690-940-1 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical outlines the largely forgotten achievements of this overlooked labor union activist and socialist sympathetic to anarchist, feminist, and secularist ideas; a dynamic speaker, who eventually emigrated to Paraguay to live on a utopian commune called New Australia. In this first book-length study of Summerfield, Shone supplements existing scholarship with new information, revealing to full extent Summerfield's contributions to radical thought, documenting the substantial scope of her contributions to women's rights activism in New South Wales in the 1890's, a topic that has previously been almost completely ignored.

Pello, Caterina, Pythagorean Women. (Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy) 75 pp. 2022:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <675-33>
ISBN 978-1-00-901181-5 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

The Pythagorean women are a group of female philosophers who were followers of Pythagoras and are credited with authoring a series of letters and treatises. In both stages of the history of Pythagoreanism - namely, the fifth-century Pythagorean societies and the Hellenistic Pythagorean writings - the Pythagorean woman is viewed as an intellectual, a thinker, a teacher, and a philosopher. The purpose of this Element is to answer the question: what kind of philosopher is the Pythagorean woman? The traditional picture of the Pythagorean female sage is that of an expert of the household. The author argues that the available evidence is more complex and conveys the idea of the Pythagorean woman as both an expert on the female sphere and a well-rounded thinker philosophising about the principles of the cosmos, human society, the immortality of the soul, numbers, and harmonics.

Cataldo, Jeremiah W., What the Bible Says About Sex: Why We Read It The Way We Do. 280 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-159>
ISBN 978-0-367-75804-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-75803-5 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

When it comes to sex, the Bible is marred by inequality. To address the consequences of that, What the Bible Says About Sex asserts that modern perspectives on sexuality and gender should be separated from the more constraining, historical views of traditional biblical interpretation.What does the Bible say about sexuality? How have traditions of biblical interpretation influenced our understanding of sex and gender? What the Bible Says About Sex answers that and many other questions. Not shy, it analyzes why the Church claimed dominion over marriage, while the female body remained a source of potential evil. It wrestles with how sexuality is used, not only in the past but also in the present, to reinforce notions of honor, and how it can be used to manipulate others. Deftly, it handles a discussion of semen as both profane and the "seed of life." It looks brazenly at the pornographic and the erotic passages of the Bible, and how traditions of interpretation veiled them. With the Bible frequently invoked to support arguments in the present age over the moral limits of sexuality and gender, having a greater awareness of what the Bible says about sex and how it is, and has been, interpreted is critical now more than ever. What the Bible Says About Sex is suitable for students, scholars, and the general reader with an interest in sexuality and the Bible, and sex and desire in both ancient and modern Christianity.

Chakravarty, Saumitra, The Goddess Re-discovered: Gender and Sexuality in Religious Texts of Medieval Bengal. 144 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-160>
ISBN 978-0-367-72124-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The book critically analyses questions of gender and sexuality in the medieval religious texts of Bengal. It analyses the emergence of religious cults in patriarchal contexts, the humanization of the goddess figure as a wife and mother who is subject to social and ethical codes, and demythologization of folk epics.This book discusses the folk genre of the Mangal Kavyas such as the Chandi Mangal and the Manasa Mangal, against the perspectives of Sanskrit texts like the Devi Mahatmya and the Devi Bhagavata Purana, and compares and contrasts the Kalika Purana against the texts and practices of the Tantric cult, to shed light on the paradoxes and parallels in the images of Kali found in the texts and practices dominant in the eastern region of India. The author also highlights the centrality of Chaitanya in the Gaudiya Vaishnava movement, the social and religious revolution he brought with the philosophy of raganuga bhakti along with the androgynous aspects in his relationships; explores the concept of mystical eroticism in the love of Radha and Krishna as seen in the song sequences of the Gaudiya Vaishnavas; and discusses women's Rama-kathas found in a variety of languages across India.Rich in archival material, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of gender studies, women's studies, literature, medieval history, social history, cultural anthropology, religious studies, cultural studies, South Asia studies, and those interested in the history of medieval Bengal.

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Mayo, Cris (ed. in chief), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality in Education. 2 vols. 1416 pp. 2022:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <675-2>
ISBN 978-0-19-084854-5 hard ¥93,786.- (税込) US$ 435.00 *

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality in Education brings together researchers from around the globe to explore how gender and sexuality shape the experiences of learners across a wide range of educational levels. The Encyclopedia offers insights into research on the affordances, impact, and disparities in education related to gender and sexuality in their most complex and transnational forms. The diversity of viewpoints, experiences, and research backgrounds provides readers with a fuller appreciation of the impact of intersectionality, as well as a global overview of gender and sexuality research in education. Articles gathered in these volumes will provide researchers with a more nuanced understanding of topics in their field, and will help to guide the development of new research projects via authoritative guidance on the impact of gender and sexuality on educational research. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality in Education represents a foundational resource in this important and growing domain.

Zhang, Aihua, The Beijing Young Women's Christian Association, 1927-1937: Materializing a Gendered Modernity. 202 pp. 2021:11 (Lexington Books, US) <675-217>
ISBN 978-1-79360-814-7 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

By exploring the interplay among gender, religion, and modernity, this book exposes the part Chinese Christian women played in China's quest for a strong nation in general and in Republican Beijing's modern transformation in particular. Focusing on the Beijing Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), the author examines how the Association, guided by the Christian tenet "to serve, not to be served," tailored its Western models and devised new programs to meet the city's demands. Its enterprises ranged from providing women- and child-oriented facilities to promoting constructive recreational activities and from reforming home and family to improving public health. Through an analysis of these endeavors, the author argues that the Chinese YW women's contribution to the city's modernity was a creative embodiment of the then socially targeted missionary movement known as the Social Gospel. In the process, they demonstrated their distinctive new ideals of womanhood featuring practicality, social service, and broad cooperation. These qualities set them apart from both traditional women and other brands of the New Woman. While criticized as trivial, their efforts, however, pioneered modern social service in China and complemented what municipal authorities and other progressive groups undertook to modernize the city.

Borooah, Vani Kant, The Economics of Gender and Sport: A Quantitative Analysis of Women's Cricket. (Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics) 184 pp. 2023 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <675-224>
ISBN 978-1-03-210958-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-210960-2 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

While women's cricket, and women's sport in general, has gained enormously in popularity in terms of both spectators and TV audiences, comparatively little is known about it and its participants, and there are few, if any, quantitative assessments of the game. The Economics of Gender and Sport: A Quantitative Analysis of Women's Cricket fills that gap. The work analyses the different forms of cricket - Test cricket, One-day, T20 - and is based on the latest sets of available data. It seeks to answer questions such as how well female cricketers play, how well they are paid, who the superstars are, and how competitive women's cricket is. It also examines more general issues which affect men's cricket too, with the over-arching theme of this book being inequality. First, the chapters discuss inequality in the distribution of luck. The book discusses the importance of luck in cricket and suggests a way of distinguishing between luck and ability in determining match outcomes. Second there is access inequality, which means that players from certain groups have an advantage in terms of being chosen to play in representative teams. Third, there is inequality in tournament outcomes, and this carries implications for the degree of competitive balance in contests between teams. Fourth is the issue of inequality in the quality of umpiring in men's and women's cricket. Fifth, there is inequality between men and women in their respective remunerations as cricketeers. Lastly, there is inequality in performance between players: the book explains how batting and bowling averages can be adjusted to better reflect player performance.The volume will find an audience among advanced students and researchers in sports economics, sports-related and gender studies. More generally, it will appeal to lovers of cricket who wish to read about the game in terms which are more than simply anecdotal.

Fleming, Bruce, Masculinity from the Inside. (Classical and Contemporary Social Theory) 176 pp. 2022:9 (Routledge, UK) <675-1226>
ISBN 978-1-03-218048-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-219147-8 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Rejecting the vocabulary and presuppositions common in Western talk about men, this book considers the ways in which men see, speak about, and understand themselves. Based on the author's experience of teaching young men at a military academy and drawing on a range of theory, it identifies a disconnect between academic discourses on "masculinity," based as these are on theoretical positions that describe the world from a position of "outsidership," and the reality of most men's experience-or, the way in which men see themselves. With an erroneous view of men dominating the airwaves, most men simply fail to engage, leaving the mistaken conceptions of masculinity to circulate and allowing policies to develop that treat men as predators and aggressors. Presenting insights into masculinity drawn from experience with young men drawn toward military life, Masculinity from the Inside seeks to address the gulf between scholarly understandings of men and men's own understandings of themselves. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of sociology, cultural studies, and gender studies, to anyone with interests in contemporary masculinity and the question of what it means to be a man.

Francis, Dennis A., Queer Activism in South African Education: Disrupting Cis(hetero)normativity in Schools. (Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education) 196 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-1227>
ISBN 978-1-03-203441-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Offering a vital, critical contribution to debates on gender, sexuality and schooling in South Africa, this book highlights how South African educational practices, discourses and structures normalize cisheteronormativity, along with how these are resisted within schools and through contemporary forms of activism. Not only does it add fresh insights to the existing research literature on gender, sexualities and schooling, it also underscores the valuable contributions of queer and transgender social movements, which have made influential legislative, teaching, learning and support contributions to education. Drawing on ethnographic research with queer and transgender activists, teachers, school managers, parents and school attending youth, the book provides everyday real-life quotes and observations offering a deeply critical contribution to the debates on gender and sexualities, education and activism. Using spatial and affect theories, it troubles the assumptions that frame this field of research to make a novel contribution to the national and international literature and research. The book provides research-based insights for thinking about and calls for informed action to challenging cisheteronormativity within and beyond schools.

Gibson, Kate, Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma in England, 1660-1834. 336 pp. 2022:8 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <675-1228>
ISBN 978-0-19-286724-7 hard ¥27,635.- (税込) GB￡ 97.00 *

Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma is the first full-length exploration of what it was like to be illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, a period of 'sexual revolution', unprecedented increase in illegitimate births, and intense debate over children's rights to state support. Using the words of illegitimate individuals and their families preserved in letters, diaries, poor relief, and court documents, this study reveals the impact of illegitimacy across the life cycle. How did illegitimacy affect children's early years, and their relationships with parents, siblings, and wider family as they grew up? Did illegitimacy limit education, occupation, or marriage chances? What were individuals' experiences of shame and stigma, and how did being illegitimate affect their sense of identity? Historian Kate Gibson investigates the circumstances that governed families' responses, from love and pragmatic acceptance, to secrecy and exclusion. In a major reframing of assumptions that illegitimacy was experienced only among the poor, this volume tells the stories of individuals from across the socio-economic scale, including children of royalty, physicians and lawyers, servants and agricultural labourers. It demonstrates that the stigma of illegitimacy operated along a spectrum, varying according to the type of parental relationship, the child's race, gender, and socio-economic status. Financial resources and the class-based ideals of parenthood or family life had a significant impact on how families reacted to illegitimacy. Class became more important over the eighteenth century, under the influence of Enlightenment ideals of tolerance, sensibility, and redemption. The child of sin was now recast as a pitiable object of charity, but this applied only to those who could fit narrow parameters of genteel tragedy. This vivid investigation of the meaning of illegitimacy gets to the heart of powerful inequalities in families, communities, and the state.

Humphreys, Clarissa / Towl, Graham (eds.), Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education. 312 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-1230>
ISBN 978-1-03-217249-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-217247-7 paper ¥13,102.- (税込) GB￡ 45.99 *

Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education provides a unique insight into how gender-based violence at universities is impacting students and staff and outlines the path toward tangible changes that can prevent it. Bringing together perspectives from academics, activists, practitioners, and university administrators, the book presents a diverse range of voices to constructively critique the field. Structured in three parts, the book begins by addressing the context, theory, and law that stipulates how universities can effectively respond to reports of gender-based violence. It goes on to discuss the most pragmatic ways to address the issue while contributing to prevention and supporting victim-survivors. Finally, the book advocates for the development of beneficial working partnerships with key external services available to university communities and also working with students as partners in an ethical and safe way. Throughout the book, contributors are invited to demonstrate a comprehensive institution-wide and trauma-informed approach to centre the needs of the victim-survivor and prioritize resources to undertake this vital work. Each chapter ends with a brief summary of key points or recommendations and suggested further reading on the chapter topic. Although the authors draw on research and policy from the UK Higher Education sector, the insights will be a useful resource for those in universities around the world. This book is an essential reference point and resource for professionals, academics, and students in Higher Education, as well as indispensable reading for activists, policymakers, police, rape crisis groups, and other organisations supporting these universities who want to make meaningful change in reducing, responding to, and preventing gender-based violence in Higher Education.

Mckee, Alan / Litsou, Katerina / Byron, Paul et al., What Do We Know About the Effects of Pornography After Fifty Years of Academic Research? (Focus on Global Gender and Sexuality) 136 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <675-1239>
ISBN 978-1-03-214031-5 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

This book presents an innovative cross-disciplinary report on research across the humanities and social sciences about the relationship between pornography and its consumers.For policy makers and the wider public it can be difficult to obtain a clear understanding of the current state of knowledge on pornography and its relationships with audiences, due to the often-contradictory nature of research spanning the various and politically diverse academic disciplines. The cross-disciplinary expertise of the author team has engaged in an extensive examination of the findings of academic research in the area in order to explain, in a clear and accessible style, the most important conclusions about the relationship of pornography to Healthy Sexual Development.This short and accessible overview is suitable for students and scholars in Psychology, Sexual Health, Film Studies, Sex Education, Queer Theory, Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, Sociology, Media Studies and Cultural Studies.

Misse, Miquel, The Myth of the Wrong Body. Tr. by F. Riddle. 174 pp. 2022:6 (Polity Pr., UK) <675-1240>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5187-3 hard ¥10,769.- (税込) US$ 49.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5188-0 paper ¥3,654.- (税込) US$ 16.95 *

The most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body - that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed. But in the view of the sociologist and trans activist Miguel Misse, this narrative is a harmful myth. It is rooted in a medical paradigm that typically leads to medical intervention - to the use of hormones and surgical operations. By proposing a particular solution (modifying one's body), doctors and psychiatrists make it difficult for trans people to overcome malaise about their body in other ways and prevent them from recognizing the burden of social norms. Drawing on his own personal experience, Misse makes the case for a different way of thinking about trans embodiment which focuses on gender identity. The trajectory that leads people to become trans is shaped by the rigidity of gender norms, where the only two models available to individuals are the masculine man and the feminine woman. But these are not the only possible choices, and by critically interrogating the rigidity of gender norms, Misse opens up a different way of thinking about being trans, beyond the essentialism of the medical paradigm.

Moore, K. (ed.), The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality. 680 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-1241>
ISBN 978-0-367-90090-8 hard ¥62,678.- (税込) GB￡ 220.00 *

This Companion covers a range of receptions of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality. It explores ancient representations of these concepts as we de?ne them today, as well as recent perspectives that have been projected back onto antiquity.Beginning in antiquity, the chapters examine how the ancient Greeks and Romans regarded concepts of what we would today call "gender" and "sexuality" based on the evidence available to us, and chart the varied interpretations and receptions of these concepts across time to the present day. In exploring how di?erent cultures have "received" the classical past, the volume investigates these cultures' di?erent interpretations of Greek and Roman sexualities, and what these interpretations can reveal about their own attitudes. Through the contributions in this book, the reader gains a deeper understanding of this essential part of human existence, derived from in?uential sources. From ancient to modern and postmodern perspectives, from cinematic productions to TikTok videos, receptions of ancient gender and sexuality abound.This volume is of interest to students and scholars of ancient history, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and ancient societies, as well as those working on popular culture and gender studies more broadly.

Perry, Louise, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. 200 pp. 2022:6 (Polity Pr., UK) <675-1245>
ISBN 978-1-5095-4998-6 hard ¥12,925.- (税込) US$ 59.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-4999-3 paper ¥4,301.- (税込) US$ 19.95 *

Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right? Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative new book. Although it would be neither possible nor desirable to turn the clock back to a world of pre-60s sexual mores, she argues that the amoral libertinism and callous disenchantment of liberal feminism and our contemporary hypersexualised culture represent more loss than gain. The main winners from a world of rough sex, hook-up culture and ubiquitous porn - where anything goes and only consent matters - are a tiny minority of high-status men, not the women forced to accommodate the excesses of male lust. While dispensing sage advice to the generations paying the price for these excesses, she makes a passionate case for a new sexual culture built around dignity, virtue and restraint. This counter-cultural polemic from one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary feminism should be read by all men and women uneasy about the mindless orthodoxies of our ultra-liberal era.

Wroblewski, Angela / Palmen, Rachel (eds.), Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations: A Reflexive Approach to Gender Equality. 272 pp. 2022:7 (Emerald, UK) <675-1260>
ISBN 978-1-80262-122-8 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The under-representation of women in research and innovation has been documented as a global phenomenon and is particularly heightened on decision-making boards and in leadership positions. Presenting a reflexive approach to gender equality for research organisations developed within the TARGET project, funded by the European Commission, the authors describe the experiences of the project's implementation in seven Gender Equality Innovating Institutions in the Mediterranean basin - including research performing organisations, research funding organisations and a network of universities. The TARGET approach goes beyond the formal adoption of a gender equality policy by emphasising an iterative and reflexive process towards equality at the institutional level as well as the establishment of a community of practice for gender equality within the institution. The approach is based on the assumption that actual change is the result of increased institutional willingness and capacity to identify, reflect on and address gender bias in a sustained way. Starting point and anchor of the process is a tailored gender equality plan for each institution. A specific characteristic of TARGET is the fact that implementing institutions are located in countries which have been characterised as relatively 'inactive' in developing gender equality policies in science and research. Therefore, internal and external communication about the relevance of gender equality in science and research forms an important element of a reflexive gender equality policy in contexts which are characterised by resistances, anti-genderism and traditional gender roles. This book will therefore be essential reading for higher education leaders and managers, and staff at all levels committed to achieving gender equity in higher education. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

McIntosh, Kathryn Esther, Mindfulness in Multicultural Education: Critical Race Feminist Perspectives. 232 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-1196>
ISBN 978-1-03-211857-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-211858-1 paper ¥11,107.- (税込) GB￡ 38.99 *

Grounded in critical race feminism, this book explores mindfulness as an empowering approach in multicultural education. The author explores how learners of multicultural education-by (re)centering the body through mindfulness with concrete strategies and scaffolded practice-can be empowered to handle the activated emotions and deep self-inquiry that come with the work of social justice, liberation, and anti-racism. This book includes counter stories of students of colors and offers both an epistemological and a curricular approach to mindfulness in multicultural education, including discussion of theory and key principles in addition to ten modules with practices to engage learners. These modules can be directly applied as the basis for curricular changes in teacher education and university-wide social justice courses, or they can be independently read by learners interested in enhancing their wellbeing and social justice. Written for teacher preparation and university social justice courses, this book encourages educators to contextualize their mindfulness practice within a critique of systems of oppression and ask questions about how mindfulness can empower action towards a more just society.

Porter, Christa J. / Sule, V. Thandi / Croom, N. N. (eds.), Black Feminist Epistemology, Research, and Praxis: Narratives in and through the Academy. (Diverse Faculty in the Academy) 226 pp. 2022:9 (Routledge, UK) <675-1203>
ISBN 978-1-03-202638-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-202725-8 paper ¥11,107.- (税込) GB￡ 38.99 *

While there has been an increase of Black women faculty in higher education institutions, the academy writ large continues to exploit, discriminate, and uphold institutionalized gendered racism through its policies and practices. Black women have navigated, negotiated, and learned how to thrive from their respective standpoints and epistemologies, traversing the academy in ways that counter typical narratives of success and advancement. This edited volume bridges together foundational and contemporary intergenerational, interdisciplinary voices to elucidate Black feminist epistemologies and praxis. Chapter authors highlight relevant research, methodologies, and theoretical or conceptual frameworks; share experiences as doctoral students, current faculty, and academic administrators; and offer lessons learned and strategies to influence systemic and institutional change for and with Black women.

Silberstein, Elodie, Animality and Humanity in French Late Modern Representations of Black Femininity. (Routledge Research in Art and Race) 188 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-1208>
ISBN 978-1-03-213542-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global North's destructive relationship with the natural world. Drawing on a broad spectrum of archives extending back to the late 18th century - paintings, fashion plates, prints, photographs, and films - this study traces the intricate ways a patriarchal imperialism and a global capitalism have paired black women with the realm of nature to justify the exploitation both of people and of ecosystems. These dehumanizing and speciesist strategies of subjugation have perpetuated interlocking patterns of social injustice and environmental depletion that constitute the most salient challenges facing humankind today. Through a novel approach that merges visual studies, critical race theory, and animal studies, this interdisciplinary investigation historicizes the evolution of the boundaries between human and non-human animals during the modern period. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, critical race theory, colonial and post-colonial studies, animal studies, and French studies.

Abrevaya, Elda, Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis: From the Melancholic to the Erotic. (The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series) 160 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-1214>
ISBN 978-1-03-214080-3 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-214081-0 paper ¥9,113.- (税込) GB￡ 31.99 *

Illustrated with examples from literature and the arts, including Virginia Woolf and Marguerite Duras. Explores female subjectivity and examines the complexities inherent to psychoanalytic work realized by women analysts with women. Includes a critical study on psychoanalytic theories on femininity but also a reflection on social aspects concerning gender.

Calabrese, Victoria, Italian Women in Basilicata: Staying Behind but Moving Forward during the Age of Mass Emigration, 1876-1914. 212 pp. 2022:1 (Lexington Books, US) <675-1222>
ISBN 978-1-79360-778-2 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

This study examines the role of southern Italian women who remained behind when their husbands emigrated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By piecing together limited archival source material, the author argues that married women were not voiceless or powerless when their husbands were abroad, but they took on roles beyond their limited legal position. They petitioned local officials, requested passports, received remittances, and handled the family finances, all in the absence of their husbands, the legal head of the family. The study also emphasizes the connection forged between women and the new Italian state at a time when women did not have political rights. Centering on Basilicata-a "forgotten" region of the Italian south and one that has not been a major focus of scholarly investigation-this study challenges stereotypes that the Italian south was backwards, uncivilized, and lagging behind northern Italy. The author argues that large scale emigration greatly impacted the married women left behind in the villages of Basilicata, changing their social, political, and economic role.

Petts, Richard J., Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers. (Routledge Studies in Family Sociology) 176 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-1068>
ISBN 978-1-03-212718-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book focuses on issues of family, work, and gender, with a focus on gender inequality. Women are disadvantaged in both paid and domestic work, due in large part to being primarily responsible for duties within the domestic sphere. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these inequalities, making the issue of reducing gender inequality even more pressing. Fathers play an important role in contributing to, and perhaps reducing, gender inequality, but barriers to their involvement in family life have received less attention than detailing challenges that mothers face. If men were equally involved in all aspects of domestic life (i.e., were fully engaged dads), women's burdens would be reduced and perceptions of who is responsible for parenting may change, resulting in greater gender equality. Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States focuses on the key issue of father involvement, seeking to understand why fathers are less involved at home than mothers despite an increased desire for fathers to be more engaged parents. This book utilizes recent national survey data, interviews with fathers, and insights from the author's personal experience as a father to identify current norms of fatherhood within the United States, barriers to father involvement, and strategies to overcome these barriers. Overall, this book argues that by establishing the expectation that fathers will be fully engaged dads as a cultural norm, and by providing structural opportunities for fathers to meet this cultural standard, greater gender equality can be achieved within the United States. The arguments presented in this book are valuable for scholars in the areas of family, work, and gender, policymakers and business leaders who seek to promote gender equality and work-family balance, and parents who are interested in achieving a more egalitarian division of labor within their own families.

Spowart, Lucy / McGannon, Kerry R. (eds.), Motherhood and Sport: Collective Stories of Identity and Difference. (Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Activity) 256 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-1077>
ISBN 978-0-367-69182-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Although sport participation decreases on average for women once they become mothers, female athletes from the recreational, to the competitive, to the elite level have demonstrated that motherhood does not signal the end of sport engagement and athletic identities, or career and leadership roles. This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the nexus of women, sport and culture within the context of motherhood, uncovering new narratives that raise the profile of non-conformist performances.The book brings together international researchers using innovative and rigorous qualitative methods to show how sport affords or constrains women's agency to devise, negotiate and live alternative versions of motherhood in and through sport. Presenting stories of sporting mothers in contexts including martial arts, leisure swimming, recreational running, triathlon and climbing, the book explores the shifting meaning and practices of motherhood across social, cultural and media/digital landscapes.Deliberately challenging taken-for-granted ways of thinking about motherhood and sport, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the socio-cultural study of sport, gender and sport, women's studies, sport coaching, sport leadership, sport development, or qualitative and digital research methods.

Brennan, Niall / Gudelunas, David (eds.), Drag in the Global Digital Public Sphere: Queer Visibility, Online Discourse and Political Change. (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies) 272 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-1095>
ISBN 978-1-03-220434-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This volume explores drag in global online spaces as a distinct departure from the established success, and limitations, of RuPaul's Drag Race. Centred around discourses of LGBTQ+ visibility and political mobilization, the volume addresses how these discourses have moved beyond the increasingly limited qualities of the television series to reconfigure the parameters of drag in emerging communities and spaces.By reconceiving of drag in new settings, this volume uncovers the crucial social and political potential for community-building in an increasingly fragmented and isolated global space. Chapters by a diverse team of authors delve into the recognition of new articulations of LGBTQ+ visibility and political mobility through drag in online space; the implications of drag celebrity for issues such as labor and profit in the digital sphere; the (re)appropriation of mainstream drag in emerging online environments and communities; and the reverberations of drag in underrepresented and underresearched areas of the world.Offering new insights into the rise of drag in a global digital public sphere, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of media studies, cultural studies, digital media and cultural studies, critical race studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, queer theory, film, and television studies.

Pelurson, Gaspard, Manifestations of Queerness in Video Games. (Routledge Advances in Game Studies) 168 pp. 2022:7 (Routledge, UK) <675-1132>
ISBN 978-0-367-90064-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Taking the reader on a journey through queer manifestations in games, this book advocates for video games as a rich, political and cultural medium, which provides us with tools to navigate the future of gaming.Situated at the intersection of New Media, Game, Cultural and Queer Studies, the book navigates diverse interspecies relationships, queer villains from the past, Pokemon memes on border politics, flanerie in post-industrial cities and one-sided erotic fights. It provides new critical engagements with the works of Jose Esteban Munoz, Bonnie Ruberg, Guy Debord and Jack Halberstam, examining queer representation, gaming subcultures and dissident play practices. Making the bold claim that video games might be the queerest medium today, this book provides organic, self-reflective and, ultimately, thought-provoking thinking in which both games and gamers are queered.This book will be of interest to scholars researching game studies, sex, gender and sexuality in new media, but also readers interested in literature, digital media, society, participatory culture and queer studies.

Richardson, Niall / Smith, Frances, Trans Representations in Contemporary, Popular Cinema: The Transgender Tipping Point. 240 pp. 2023 (Routledge, UK) <675-1135>
ISBN 978-0-367-48337-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-48335-7 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book analyses how contemporary genre cinema represents trans-identified characters.Informed by key debates within transfeminism, queer theory, contemporary trans studies - and engaging with the concerns voiced by gender critical feminism - this culturally oriented book critiques the representation of trans characters in a range of cinematic genres, including the musical, period costume drama, the road movie, melodrama, coming-of-age stories, and romances. The case studies address the ways in which trans identifications have been coded within the narrative and stylistic expectations of the genres. Are genre films successful in affirming trans identifications or do they reinforce trans stereotypes and anti-trans discourses?This is a timely and accessible book, which addresses Anglophonic, European and Latin American cinemas, and is ideal for students studying courses in Film Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies or Gender Studies.

Ching Carter, Karen L., Photo-Essays about Asian American Women in Life Magazine 1936 to 1965: Hidden Narratives and Breaking Stereotypes. 156 pp. 2021:10 (Lexington Books, US) <675-1150>
ISBN 978-1-79361-307-3 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

The editors of Life Magazine, a mass-produced picture magazine, composed picture narratives that entertained, informed, and influenced mid-twentieth-century American society. Photo-Essays about Asian American Women in Life Magazine 1936 to 1965: Hidden Narratives and Breaking Stereotypes is a rhetorical analysis of how Life Magazine's photo-essays represented and shaped white American middle-class attitudes toward Asian American women. In the time period studied, 1936 to1965, most white Americans were exposed to Asian woman primarily through film or in illustrated drawings. Hollywood in particular created caricatures depicting Asian women as evil dragon ladies or sex slaves, both of which implied prostitution, which affected their legal and social standing in early and mid-twentieth-century America. The book illustrates the ways in which the Life editors utilized the photo-essay as a narrative art form to counter stereotypical and racist Hollywood depictions of Asian women as prostitutes and to envision them as part of the American middle class, thereby promoting a sense of national identity that included Asians as Americans. This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of women's studies, cultural studies, visual culture, Asian American studies, and history.

Quick Hall, K. Melchor / Kirk, Gwyn (eds.), Mapping Gendered Ecologies: Engaging with and beyond Ecowomanism and Ecofeminism. (Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives) 270 pp. 2021:3 (Lexington Books, US) <675-1002>
ISBN 978-1-79363-946-2 hard ¥25,225.- (税込) US$ 117.00 *

This collection of women's racialized and gendered mappings of place, people, and nature includes the stories of teachers, organizers, activists, farmers, healers, and gardeners. From their many entry points, the contributors to this work engage crucial questions of coexistence with nature in these times of overlapping climate, health, economic, and racial crises.

Yilmaz, Ozan Can, Performing the Gendered Self in Intercultural Communication. 94 pp. 2022:2 (P. Lang, SZ) <675-1054>
ISBN 978-3-631-86076-2 papaer ¥5,992.- (税込) SFR 24.00

While there is a multiplicity of identity markers that affect the dynamics of intercultural communication, the intersectionality of gender and religion deserves more scholarly attention. The book takes the dissimilar cultural concepts and identity performance as a starting point, exploring the significant role that the religious indoctrinations play in the construction and performance of gender. It features contributions by the scholars in the field of communication, gender and cultural studies, including theoretical reflections on the socio-cultural formation of identity, dogmatic impositions on gender roles, and the performance of gender identity in intercultural settings.