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

Kim, H. Yumi, Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan. 248 pp. 2022:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <677-871>
ISBN 978-0-19-750735-3 hard ¥11,426.- (税込) US$ 53.00 *

To fend off American and European imperialism in the nineteenth century, Japan strove to strengthen itself by drawing on the most updated ideas and practices from around the world. By the 1880s, this included the introduction of Western-derived psychiatry and its ideas about mental illness. The first Japanese psychiatrists claimed that mental illnesses required medical treatment in specialized institutions rather than confinement at home, as had been common practice. Yet the state implemented no social welfare policies to make new medical services more accessible and affordable to the public. The family, especially women, thus continued to carry the burden of caring for those considered mad. Madness in the Family examines how the family in Japan came to be seen as the natural provider of care for those suffering from mental illnesses. It centers on the experiences of women and families, which have long been obscured by the voices of male psychiatrists, state officials, and lawmakers. H. Yumi Kim traces how women and families negotiated a dizzying array of claims about madness and its proper management across various settings. In the countryside, psychiatrists tried to refute the notion that fox spirits could cause madness, and the government regulated the use of cage-like structures inside homes. In cities, a booming medical marketplace spread ideas about feminized illnesses such as hysteria, and female defendants were evaluated for menstruation-induced disorders. As women and families navigated this shifting therapeutic landscape, they produced their own gendered approaches to madness that would take precedence over the claims of psychiatry, the law, and the state in everyday life. Decoupling the history of mental illness from the discipline and institutions of psychiatry, Madness in the Family reveals the power and fragilities of gender, kinship, and care in the creation of different modes of caring for and understanding mental illness that persist to this day.

Ardizzoni, Sabrina, Hakka Women in Tulou Villages: Social and Cultural Constructs of Hakka Identity in Modern and Contemporary Fujian, China. (China Studies 47) 2022:8 (Brill, NE) <677-873>
ISBN 978-90-04-51818-6 hard ¥22,127.- (税込) EUR 94.00

Sabrina Ardizzoni's book is an in-depth analysis of Hakka women in tulou villages in Southeast China. Based on fieldwork, data acquired through local documents, diverse material and symbolic culture elements, this study adopts an original approach that includes historical-textual investigation and socio-anthropological enquiry. Having interviewed local Hakka women and participated in rural village events, public and private, in west Fujian's Hakka tulou area, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the historical threads and cultural processes that lead to the construction of the ideal Hakka woman, as well as an insightful analysis of the multifaceted Hakka society in which rural women reinvent their social subjectivity and negotiate their position between traditional constructs and modern dynamics.

Zheng, Tiantian, Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China. 224 pp. 2022:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <677-888>
ISBN 978-1-350-26343-7 hard ¥19,943.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-26342-0 paper ¥6,549.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

Winner of the 2022 Research Publication Book Award from the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States. Based on ethnographic research with victims of intimate partner violence since 2014, this book brings to the forefront women's experiences of, negotiations about, and contestations against violence, and men's narratives about the reasons for their violence. Using an innovative methodology - online chat groups, it foregrounds the role of history, structural inequalities, and the cultural system of power hierarchy in situating and constructing intimate partner violence. Centering on men and women's narratives about violence, this book connects intimate partner violence with invisible structural violence - the historical, cultural, political, economic, and legal context that gives rise to and perpetuates violence against women. Through examining the ways in which women's lives are constrained by various forms of violence, hierarchy, and inequality, this book shows that violence against women is a structural issue that is historically produced and politically and culturally engaged.

Catalano Weeks, Ana, Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy. (Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics) 300 pp. 2022:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <677-758>
ISBN 978-1-00-916783-3 hard ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *

Do gender quota laws - policies that mandate women's inclusion on parties' candidate slates - affect policy outcomes? Making Gender Salient tackles this crucial question by offering a new theory to understand when and how gender quota laws impact policy. Drawing on cross-national data from high-income democracies and a mixed-methods research design, the book argues that quotas lead to policy change for issues characterized by a gender gap in preferences, especially if these issues deviate from the usual left/right party policy divide. The book focuses on one such issue, work-family policies, and finds that quotas shift work-family policies in the direction of gender equality. Substantive chapters show that quotas make gender more salient by giving women louder voices within parties, providing access to powerful ministerial roles, and encouraging male party leaders to compete on previously marginalized issues. The book concludes that quotas are one important way of facilitating congruence between women's policy preferences and actual policy outcomes.

Gotby, Alva, They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life. 224 pp. 2023:1 (Verso, UK) <677-763>
ISBN 978-1-83976-703-6 hard ¥4,270.- (税込) GB￡ 14.99 *

Comforting a family member or friend, soothing children, providing company for the elderly, ensuring that people feel well enough to work; this is all essential labour. Without it, capitalism would cease to function. They Call It Love investigates the work that makes a haven in a heartless world, examining who performs this labour, how it is organised, and how it might change. In this groundbreaking book, Alva Gotby calls this work 'emotional reproduction', unveiling its inherently political nature. It not only ensures people's well-being but creates sentimental attachments to social hierarchy and the status quo. Drawing on the thought of the feminist movement Wages for Housework, Gotby demonstrates that emotion is a key element of capitalist reproduction. To improve the way we relate to one another will require a radical restructuring of society.

Lorey, Isabell, Democracy in the Political Present: A Queer-Feminist Theory. 224 pp. 2022:11 (Verso, UK) <677-782>
ISBN 978-1-83976-733-3 paper ¥5,124.- (税込) GB￡ 17.99 *

Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism.'In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense; one which breaks open political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth. Her queer feminist political theory formulates a fundamental critique of masculinist concepts of the people, representation, institutions, and the multitude. In doing so, she unfolds an original concept of a presentist democracy based on care and interrelatedness, on the irreducibility of responsibilities-one which cannot be conceived of without social movements' past struggles and current practices.

Sharov, Konstantin S., Gender as a Political Instrument Forming New Boundaries by Ethnic and Religious Diasporas in European Union. 226 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <677-844>
ISBN 978-981-19-0694-7 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book considers gender as a convenient tool for making new boundaries within the European Union. It offers a political analysis based on sociological surveys conveyed by the author in 2008-2021. It emphasises the utmost necessity of a proper understanding of specific gender political technologies applied in ethnic and religious diasporas within the EU borders, by EU ruling elites, to avoid ideological collapse in relations with diaspora political groups and general members. The book demonstrates that uncritical application of EU gender equality programs within diasporas may transform gender to a dangerous political force destabilising the European Union. The monograph will be of interest for political science researchers, legislators, and administrators that work with political dimension of gender.

Downham Moore, Alison M., The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing: A History. 528 pp. 2022:10 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <677-85>
ISBN 978-0-19-284291-6 hard ¥40,597.- (税込) GB￡ 142.50 *

Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century. The concept of menopause was invented by French male medical students in the aftermath of the French Revolution, becoming an important pedagogic topic and a common theme of doctors' professional identities in postrevolutionary biomedicine. Older women were identified as an important patient cohort for the expanding medicalisation of French society and were advised to entrust themselves to the hygienic care of doctors in managing the whole era of life from around and after the final cessation of menses. However, menopause owed much of its conceptual weft to earlier themes of women as the sicker sex, of vitalist crisis, of the vapours, and of astrological climacteric years. This is the first comprehensive study of the origins of the medical concept of menopause, richly contextualising its role in nineteenth-century French medicine and revealing the complex threads of meaning that informed its invention. It tells a complex story of how women's ageing featured in the demographic revolution in modern science, in the denigration of folk medicine, in the unique French field of hygiene, and in the fixation on women in the emergence of modern psychiatry. It reveals the nineteenth-century French origins of the still-current medical and alternative-health approaches to women's ageing as something to be managed through gynaecological surgery, hormonal replacement, and lifestyle intervention.

Bloomer, Fiona / Campbell, Emma (eds.), Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland: Legislation and Protest. 288 pp. 2022:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <677-484>
ISBN 978-0-7556-4257-1 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

Northern Ireland stands out as having enacted historical positive change in abortion law, from an almost complete ban in the 20th century to the decriminalization achieved in 2019. This book documents and analyzes how this historical change was achieved. Each chapter is written by those directly involved in the long-fought battle to change abortion law - including those with personal experience of seeking abortions, activists, academics, legal experts, political actors, NGOs, and volunteers. In this, the first of two volumes, contributions focus on the legislative landscape of the process with particular emphasis on the importance of 'feminist legal work' - law-making influenced by the women most likely to be impacted by it.

Schultz, Jana / Wilberding, James (eds.), Women and the Female in Neoplatonism. (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition 30) 2022:8 (Brill, NE) <677-26>
ISBN 978-90-04-51046-3 hard ¥31,779.- (税込) EUR 135.00 *

Sosipatra, Hypatia, Macrina: some of the most famous female philosophers of antiquity were connected to Neoplatonism. But what does it mean to be a woman philosopher in late antiquity? How is the inclusive nature of the Neoplatonic schools connected to their ethical, political, and metaphysical ideas? What role does the religious dimension of late Neoplatonism and the role of women as priestesses play in understanding Neoplatonic women philosophers? This book offers thirteen essays that examine women and the female in Neoplatonism from a variety of perspectives, paying particular attention to the interactions between the metaphysics, psychology, and ethics.

Dabic, Marina / Dana, Leo-Paul / Nziku, D. M. et al. (eds.), Women Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Historical Framework, Ecosystem, and Future Perspectives for the Region. (Contributions to Management Science) 340 pp. 2022:6 (Springer, GW) <677-370>
ISBN 978-3-030-98965-1 hard ¥40,014.- (税込) EUR 169.99 *

According to a 2018 World Bank report, Africa is the only region with more women than men choosing to become entrepreneurs - a phenomenon that is not the subject of adequate discussion. This book reveals the latest research-based understanding of the entrepreneurial activities of women in sub-Saharan Africa. Specially invited subject experts present salient dimensions of entrepreneurship by African women, from environmental factors to motivations and influencers as well as financial and non-financial constraints, and highlight the significant role of cultural differences. This book provides a mixture of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical research, and fills the knowledge gap by presenting a wide range of opportunities and challenges faced by sub-Saharan African women entrepreneurs. This book will help policy makers and academic researchers in understanding the role of institutions and entrepreneurship policy in building a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem in the region.

Evans, Christopher H., Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard. 408 pp. 2022:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <677-138>
ISBN 978-0-19-091407-3 hard ¥9,915.- (税込) US$ 45.99 *

Frances Willard (1839-1898) was one of the most prominent American social reformers of the late nineteenth century. As the long-time president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Willard built a national and international movement of women that campaigned for prohibition, women's rights, economic justice, and numerous other social justice issues during the Gilded Age. Emphasizing what she called "Do Everything" reform, Willard became a central figure in international movements in support of prohibition, women's suffrage, and Christian socialism. A devout Methodist, Willard helped to shape predominant religious currents of the late nineteenth century and was an important figure in the rise of the social gospel movement in American Protestantism. The first biography of Frances Willard to be published in over thirty-five years, Do Everything explores Willard's life, her contributions as a reformer, and her broader legacy as a women's rights activist in the United States. In addition to chronicling Willard's life, historian Christopher H. Evans examines how Willard crafted a distinctive culture of women's leadership, emphasizing the importance of religious faith for understanding Willard's successes as a social reformer. Despite her enormous fame during her lifetime, Evans investigates the reasons why Willard's legacy has been eclipsed by subsequent generations of feminist reformers and assesses her importance for our time.

Huesken, Ute (ed.), Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism. (AAR Religion, Culture, and History) 288 pp. 2022:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <677-146>
ISBN 978-0-19-760372-7 hard ¥25,872.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

In most mainstream traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, women have for centuries largely been excluded from positions of religious and ritual leadership. However, as this volume shows, in an increasing number of late-20th-century and early-21st-century contexts, women can and do undergo monastic and priestly education; they can receive ordination/initiation as Buddhist nuns or Hindu priestesses; and they are accepted as religious and political leaders. Even though these processes still take place largely outside or at the margins of traditional religious institutions, it is clear that women are actually establishing new religious trends and currents. They are attracting followers, and they are occupying religious positions on par with men. At times women are filling a void left behind by male religious specialists who left the profession, and at times they are perceived as their rivals. In some cases, this process takes place in collaboration with male religious specialists, in others against the will of the women's male counterparts. However, in most cases we see both acceptance and resistance. Whether silently or with great fanfare, women are grasping new opportunities to occupy positions of leadership. This book offers ten in-depth case studies analysing culturally, historically, and geographically unique situations in order to explore the historical background, contemporary trajectories, and impact of the emergence of new and powerful forms of female agency in mostly conservative Hindu and Buddhist religious traditions.

Banegas, Dario Luis / Govender, Navan (eds.), Gender Diversity and Sexuality in English Language Education: New Transnational Voices. 272 pp. 2022:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <677-1135>
ISBN 978-1-350-21756-0 hard ¥27,065.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

Runner up, British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Book Prize 2023 This book combines teaching-informed research studies and research-informed teaching accounts which explore English language education that engages with (a)gender and (a)sexual diversity. Informed by critical theories, critical literacy, post-structuralism, queer theory, and indigeneity/(de)coloniality, the critical perspectives in this volume consider gender and sexuality as dimensions of human life and aim to promote sexual, gender, emotional and relational wellbeing together with the construction of cultural horizons and citizenship. The chapters are organised around three interdependent areas of inquiry: 1) how educators design pedagogies and curriculums around gender diversity and sexuality, 2) how students and teachers navigate issues of gender diversity and sexuality in practice, as well as 3) how issues of gender diversity and sexuality are (not) addressed in the materials for teaching and learning English. The contributors are all teacher educators-researchers and therefore have vast experience in enacting, implementing, designing, and examining the field of English language teacher education from/for the classroom with a gender perspective in diverse settings, with chapters come from Argentina, Bangladesh, Canada, Germany, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK and Uruguay.

20世紀英国における女性のアクティヴィズム
Bartley, Paula, Women's Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain: Making a Difference Across the Political Spectrum. (Gender and History) 286 pp. 2022:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <677-1136>
ISBN 978-3-030-92720-2 paper ¥6,587.- (税込) EUR 27.99

This book serves as an introduction to the extraordinary diversity of women's activism. Paula Bartley's original research is supported by a range of writing to provide a powerful impression of the actions taken by groups of women from across the social and political spectrum, making the book invaluable to both students and interested readers. These women set out to make a difference to their locality, their country and sometimes the world. The story of women's activism embodies stimulating accounts of progress and reversals, of commitment and uncertainty, of competing rights and challenging wrongs. The story of women's activism is not tidy or well-ordered. It is messy and unorthodox. And full of surprises.

Bayless, Martha / Liliequist, Jonas / Webb, Lewis (eds.), Gender and Status Competition in Pre-Modern Societies. (Studies in the History of Daily Life (800-1600) 10) 340 pp. 2022:3 (Brepols, BE) <677-1137>
ISBN 978-2-503-59632-7 hard ¥20,009.- (税込) EUR 85.00 *

Antonelli, Francesca / Romano, A. / Savoia, P. (eds.), Gendered Touch: Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe. (Nuncius Series 9) 308 pp. 2022:7 (Brill, NE) <677-1131>
ISBN 978-90-04-51260-3 hard ¥37,428.- (税込) EUR 159.00

This book aims at exploring how practical expertise, textual learning, and the gendered bodies intersected with the production of knowledge in early modern Europe. Gendered touch looks at both how representations of gendered bodies contributed to the production of knowledge, and at how practice itself was gendered. By exploring new archival material and by reading anew printed sources, the book inquiries about how knowledge was produced, translated, appropriated, and transmitted among different kinds of actors - both women and men - such as craftspeople, physicians, alchemists, apothecaries, music theorists, natural philosophers, and natural historians.

Apak, Meral, Breastfeeding Privatization in Public Education: Classroom Mothers in Neoliberal Times and the Patriarchal Mother-Power in School. (Critical Studies of Education 17) 199 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <677-1132>
ISBN 978-981-19-0259-8 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book unveils women's empowerment as mothers as a notion in the school system that reinforces patriarchy rather than weakening it. It discusses how empowerment is a contested notion, even though it is mostly praised in terms of women's emancipation. This book explores the concept that although women are breastfeeding education as mothers in the neoliberal education system, they are not necessarily doing so as a self-sacrifice as one may generalize in the context of neoliberal economy. Instead, this book argues that women are doing this as a means of investment for gaining a sense of individual power, which ironically, reinforces patriarchal values. It presents demonstrative and descriptive practical incidences in the field.

Badruddoja, Roksana, National (un)Belonging: Bengali-American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 222) 178 pp. 2022:9 (Brill, NE) <677-1108>
ISBN 978-90-04-51287-0 hard ¥27,071.- (税込) EUR 115.00

In National (un)Belonging, Badruddoja focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, citizenship, and nationalism among contemporary South Asian American women. Critiquing binary and hierarchical thinking prominent in cultural discourse, Badruddoja conveys the multidimensional nature of identity and draws a compelling illustration of why difference matters.

Burden-Stelly, Charisse / Dean, Jodi, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing. 320 pp. 2022:10 (Verso, UK) <677-1111>
ISBN 978-1-83976-497-4 paper ¥5,694.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99 *

Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete materialist analysis of the conditions of Black workers, these women argued that racial and economic equality can only be achieved by overthrowing capitalism.The first collection of its kind, Organize, Fight, Win brings together three decades of Black Communist women's political writings. In doing so, it highlights the link between Communism and Black liberation. Likewise, it makes clear how Black women fundamentally shaped, and were shaped by, Communist praxis in the twentieth century.Organize, Fight, Win includes writings from card-carrying Communists like Dorothy Burnham, Williana Burroughs, Grace P. Campbell, Alice Childress, Marvel Cooke, Esther Cooper Jackson, Thelma Dale Perkins, Vicki Garvin, Yvonne Gregory, Claudia Jones, Maude White Katz, and Louise Thompson Patterson, and writings by those who organized alongside the Communist Party, like Ella Baker, Charlotta Bass, Thyra Edwards, Lorraine Hansberry, and Dorothy Hunton.

Cook, Matt / Oram, Alison / Bengry, Justin (eds.), Locating Queer Histories: Places and Traces Across the UK. 224 pp. 2022:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <677-1143>
ISBN 978-1-350-14372-2 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

Ranging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history. The chapters cover a broad range of themes from migration, movement and multiculturalism; the distinctive queer social and political scenes of different cities; and the ways in which places have been reimagined through locally led community history projects. The book challenges traditional LGBTQ histories which have tended to conceive of queer experience in the UK as a comprising a homogeneous, national narrative. Edited by leading historians, the book foregrounds the voices of LGBTQ-identified people by looking at a range of letters, diaries, TV interviews and oral testimonies. It provides a unique and fascinating account of queer experiences in Britain and how they have been shaped through different localities.

Donert, Celia / Moll-Murata, Christine (eds.), Women's Rights and Global Socialism: Volume 30, Part 1. (International Review of Social History Supplements 30, 1) 230 pp. 2022:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <677-1145>
ISBN 978-1-00-923734-5 paper ¥5,694.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99 *

Women's emancipation was a central but contested pillar of socialist and communist internationalism during the twentieth century. The collapse of state socialism has led to renewed interest in the history and legacies of women's movements across the former socialist world during the era of decolonisation, and their significance for global feminisms in the present day. Responding to these debates, this collection of essays explores the history of transnational socialist feminisms during the global Cold War from the perspective of mid-ranking activists, officials and functionaries in international communist and left-revolutionary movements in Eastern Europe and the postcolonial world. Drawing on new sources, including private correspondence, interviews, memoirs and institutional archives, the essays ask how these activists defined women's rights from the era of the Popular Fronts in the 1930s until the United Nations Decade of Women (1976-1985).

Dubois, Anne-Lydie, Former la masculinite: Education, pastorale mendiante et exegese au XIIIe siecle. (Bibliotheque d'histoire culturelle du Moyen Age 21) 458 p. 2022:5 (Brepols, BE) <677-1147>
ISBN 978-2-503-59522-1 paper ¥20,009.- (税込) EUR 85.00 *

El-Rifae, Yasmin, Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution. 208 pp. 2022:10 (Verso, UK) <677-1148>
ISBN 978-1-83976-768-5 hard ¥4,270.- (税込) GB￡ 14.99 *

In 2012, the joyful hopes of the democratic Egyptian Revolution were tempered by revelations of mass sexual assault in Tahrir Square in Cairo, the revolution's symbolic birthplace. This is the story of the women and men who formed Opantish - Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment - who deployed hundreds of volunteers, scouts rescue teams, and getaway drivers to intervene in the spiraling cases of sexual violence against women protesters in the square. Organized and led by women during 2012-2013 - the final, chaotic months of Egypt's revolution - teams of volunteers fought their way into circles of men to pull the woman at the center to safety. Often, they risked assault themselves. Journalist Yasmin El-Rifae was one of Opantish's organizers, and this is her evocative, aching account of their work, as they raced to develop new tactics, struggled with a revolution bleeding into counter-revolution, and dealt with the long aftermath of assault and devastation. Told in a daring, hybrid narrative style drawn from years of interviews and her own, intimate experience, it is a story of overlapping circles: the circles of male attackers activists had to break through, the ways sexual violence can be circled off as "irrelevant" to political struggle, and the endless repetitive loops of living with trauma. Introducing a powerful new voice, a writer whose searchingly beautiful, spare prose cuts to the core of a story ever more urgent and relevant: of women's resistance when all else has failed.

Ferrier-Viaud, Pauline, Epouses de ministres: une histoire sociale du pouvoir feminin au temps de Louis XIV. (Epoques) 336 p. 2022:4 (Champ Vallon, FR) <677-1150>
ISBN 979-10-267-1035-6 paper ¥5,885.- (税込) EUR 25.00 *

Foehr-Janssens, Yasmina / Camillocci, D. S. et al. (ed.), Allaiter de l'Antiquite a nos jours: Histoire et pratiques d'une culture en Europe. (Generation 1) 2022:7 (Brepols, BE) <677-1151>
ISBN 978-2-503-59652-5 hard ¥22,363.- (税込) EUR 95.00 *

Grau, Anna Kathryn / Colton, Lisa (eds.), Female-Voice Song and Women's Musical Agency in the Middle Ages. (Brill's Companions to the Musical Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Europe 5) 2022:8 (Brill, NE) <677-1153>
ISBN 978-90-04-42968-0 hard ¥50,611.- (税込) EUR 215.00

This collection of seventeen essays newly identifies contributions to musical culture made by women before 1500 across Europe. You will learn about repertoire from such diverse locations as Iceland, Spain, and Italy, and encounter examples of musicianship from the gender-fluid professional musicians at the Islamicate courts of Syria to the nuns of Barking Abbey in England. The book shows that women drove musical patronage, dissemination, composition, and performance, including within secular and ecclesiastical contexts, and also reflects on the reception of medieval women's musical agency by both medieval poets and by modern recording artists. Contributors are David Catalunya, Lisa Colton, Helen Dell, Annemari Ferreira, Rachel Golden, Gillian L. Gower, Anna Kathryn Grau, Carissa M. Harris, Louise McInnes, Lisa Nielson, Lauren Purcell-Joiner, Megan Quinlan, Leah Stuttard, Claire Taylor Jones, Melissa Tu, Angelica Vomera, and Anne Bagnall Yardley.

Honeyball, Mary, Edith Summerskill: The Life and Times of a Pioneering Feminist Labour MP. 280 pp. 2022:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <677-1154>
ISBN 978-1-350-25242-4 hard ¥8,547.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00 *

An Independent Book of the Month Edith Summerskill was a remarkable politician, feminist, physician, campaigner and writer. At a time when there were few powerful women in public life, Dr Edith, as she was known, served in Clement Attlee's transformational post-war Labour government and oversaw the National Insurance scheme which solidified the welfare state in Britain. Here, Labour MEP Mary Honeyball, provides the first biography of this remarkable early pioneer for women in politics. Honeyball shows how Edith Summerskill's direct campaigning was instrumental in promoting women's causes throughout her life and lays out her remarkable achievements in securing the equal rights of housewives and divorced women over property. This is an uplifting and enlightening account of a forgotten Labour hero.

Neumann, Andreas, Gelehrsamkeit und Geschlecht: Das Frauenstudium zwischen deutscher Universitaetsidee und buergerlicher Geschlechterordnung (1865-1918). (Wissenschaftskulturen. Reihe III: Pallas Athene. Geschichte der institutionalisierten Wissenschaft 56) 420 S. 2022:2 (F. Steiner, GW) <677-1159>
ISBN 978-3-515-13165-0 hard ¥16,478.- (税込) EUR 70.00 *

Weshalb durften Frauen an deutschen Universitaeten im internationalen Vergleich erst spaet studieren? Wieso entbrannte in Deutschland um das Thema ein Streit, der ein halbes Jahrhundert andauerte? Und wie wurde eine Einigung erzielt? Mit Antworten auf diese Fragen fuegt Andreas Neumann der Geschichte des Frauenstudiums ein wichtiges Kapitel hinzu. Seine wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse steht auf breiter Quellenbasis und entschluesselt Machtpotenziale beteiligter Interessengruppen sowie verhandelte Wissensbestaende. Der Mixed-Methods-Zugang verbindet die qualitative Analyse von Deutungen und Narrativen mit der quantitativen Analyse von sozialen Strukturen. Dieser Ansatz geht ueber deskriptive Darstellungen hinaus, weil er Erklaerungen liefert: Deutlich wird, wie sich die Maenneruniversitaet dynamisch stabilisierte. Bei der Zulassung von Frauen zum Studium handelte es sich deshalb um keine reine Fortschrittsgeschichte. Es gelang der buergerlichen Frauenbewegung zwar, die Bildungspolitik ueber die Oeffentlichkeit zu beeinflussen ? hier zeigt sich das deutsche Kaiserreich von seiner fortschrittlichen Seite. Grenzen dieser Modernitaet liegen jedoch in der Voreingenommenheit gegenueber "der akademischen Frau", die schon die "glaeserne Decke" fuer Akademikerinnen im Wissenschaftsbetrieb erkennen laesst.

Reinicke, Kenneth, Men After #MeToo: Being an Ally in the Fight Against Sexual Harassment. 259 pp. 2022:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <677-1160>
ISBN 978-3-030-96910-3 paper ¥7,058.- (税込) EUR 29.99

Grounded in an explicit focus on men's roles and responsibilities in the fight against sexual harassment, this book creates a deeper understanding of why sexual harassment against women occurs and how we, as a society, can better respond to and prevent it. Integrating theoretical analyses with empirical data from interviews with 25 Danish men, the author argues that if we want to eradicate the social and cultural tolerance of sexual harassment and the victim blaming of women, then we need a paradigm-shifting perspective. This book investigates the framing of the debates on sexual harassment, just as it looks deeper into the socialization processes of men, and raises the question of why so many men feel entitled to sexually harass women. This book also explores what part men can play in combating sexual harassment, emphasizing that it is important not only to see men as perpetrators, but also as empowered bystanders. It argues that the #MeToo movement constitutes a potential instructive moment, presenting men with an opportunity for change.

Kac-Vergne, Marianne / Assouly, Julie (eds.), From the Margins to the Mainstream: Women in Film and Television. (Library of Gender and Popular Culture) 256 pp. 2022:8 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <677-1076>
ISBN 978-1-78831-267-7 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This book explores the various issues raised by women's fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as filmmakers and film critics or on screen in film and TV series. Marianne Kac-Vergne and Julie Assouly consider the varied representations of women in films such as Jackie Brown (1997), Marie Antoinette (2006), It's a Free World... (2007) and Wonder Woman (2017). They particularly look into the overlooked gendered aspects of voice-overs and the adverse tropes used to represent maternity in television series as well as the complex motif of the vagina dentata in contemporary film and television. The chapters analyze independent, art-house, Hollywood and TV productions often in transnational contexts, shedding light on how definitions of femininity are culturally specific yet cross national, class and racial lines. The contributors include renowned scholars such as Yvonne Tasker, Celestino Deleyto, David Roche and Nicole Cloarec, as well as emerging yet well-published film scholars.

Bogert, Kathrine van den, Street Football, Gender and Muslim Youth in the Netherlands: Girls Who Kick Back. (Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality) 224 pp. 2022:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <677-1044>
ISBN 978-1-350-20504-8 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

Based on original ethnographic research in a multicultural neighbourhood in The Hague, this open access book gives detailed insights into the challenges, negotiations and resistances girls with Moroccan-Dutch and Muslim backgrounds face in the world of street football. Kathrine van den Bogert traces the experiences of teenage girls who play football in public playgrounds, as well as in a girls' football competition the girls have set up themselves: Football Girls United. She addresses how race, ethnicity, religion, gender and citizenship are entangled in the access to and construction of the public street football spaces, such as football courts, urban playgrounds and public squares. While Muslim girls in football are often stigmatized and excluded based on their religious and ethnic backgrounds, this book emphasizes their street football practices as critical and creative ways of belonging, both in football and in wider Dutch society. By focussing on a domain largely absent in religion and gender research, namely sport, this book brings forth new perspectives on religious and ethnic diversity in Europe. The football players show that 'Muslim' is not always a relevant identity in their lives, and hence urge us to rethink the categories of analysis that we use, and often take for granted, as feminist and intersectional scholars of gender, religion and Islam. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Robinson, Stefan / Anderson, Eric, Bromance: Male Friendship, Love and Sport. 278 pp. 2022:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <677-1047>
ISBN 978-3-030-98609-4 paper ¥5,881.- (税込) EUR 24.99 *

Unraveling the stereotype that men's friendships are unemotional and shallow, this book provides the first detailed account of the bromance that exists among young men. Drawing on one year of ethnography and 20 in-depth interviews among a university sport team, the authors show that these men reject traditional masculine boundaries, instead prioritizing an emotional and tactile form of friendship. Chapters detail the cultural shift in society's views on bromances, showing that bromances exists as an elevated, more emotional and intimate form of friendship, existing as a further positive consequence of decreasing cultural homophobia. By focusing on sport-which has traditionally been seen as a homophobic environment with toxic constructions of manhood-the authors show that even in the most traditionally masculine of settings, young men are rethinking what male friendship looks like, what it means to be a man, and the positive impact this can have on their mental health. This book will be relevant to a number of audiences including scholars and students in masculinity studies, queer studies, and friendship studies; LGBTQ+ activists and allies with interest in straight men's friendships and sports cultures; and men's mental health advocates.

Blayney, Steffan / Hornsby, Joey / Whaley, Savannah (eds.), The Body Productive: Rethinking Capitalism, Work and the Body. 256 pp. 2022:12 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <677-1013>
ISBN 978-0-7556-3951-9 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

The Body Productive represents a new and radical approach to the relationships between capitalism, work and the body. Self-evident, natural, biological - this is how we think of the body on an everyday basis. However, this supposedly most direct aspect of our being may in fact be a primary site of socio-economic mediation and ideological reproduction. How are bodies produced under capitalism? How, in turn, does capitalism make bodies productive? How is the body (and knowledge of the body) shaped by demands of production, consumption and exchange, and how can these logics be resisted, challenged and overcome? These are the questions at the heart of The Body Productive, a collection of original, radical new approaches to the relationships between capitalism, work and the body from an international group of scholars and activists. Taking inspiration from the neglected theoretical work of Francois Guery and Didier Deleule, and bridging Marxist and Foucauldian traditions, this book rethinks the relationships between the biological and the social; the body and the mind; power and knowledge; discipline and control.