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

Hosli, Madeleine O. / Blessing, Amy / Iacovidou, I. (eds.), The Global, Regional and Local Politics of Institutional Responses to COVID-19: Implications for Women and Children. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 244 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-792>
ISBN 978-3-031-09912-0 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

The shift from response to recovery is now noticeable as the world moves past the paralyzing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book explores responses to the pandemic by international, regional, and local institutions, multilateral action, and crisis prevention efforts at different levels of governance, with a specific focus on the situation of women and children. The contributions in this volume address novel topics and expand the analysis to the different challenges faced by women and children, linking these to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, to create a holistic view of the true impact of the pandemic. The focus on international and regional cooperation provides further insights on how management of the COVID-19-induced crisis can be altered and improved. Immediate effects of the pandemic were focused on healthcare, but long-term and knock-on effects spread to different societal sectors and must be analyzed to ensure they will be addressed and, ultimately, resolved.

ジェンダーの視点から見た国際法の法的諸問題
Krstic, Ivana / Evola, Marco / Ribes Moreno, M. I. (eds.), Legal Issues of International Law from a Gender Perspective. (Gender Perspectives in Law 3) 224 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <686-704>
ISBN 978-3-031-13458-6 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

This book offers a new perspective on international law, which was, for centuries, male-dominant and gender-blind. However, this gender blindness has led to many injustices, the failure to recognize certain rights, and to impunity for serious crimes. The book examines the development of gender perspectives in various branches of international law, while also discussing and explaining certain universal standards. However, particular attention is paid to the European human rights system. Accordingly, the book provides detailed explanations of the EU's external policies in relation to sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Also, there is a special focus on the relevant jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in relation to gender and sexual orientation, female reproduction, and sexuality. The authors explain not only the importance of an adequate legal framework for combating gender inequality but also the detrimental effects of deeply rooted gender stereotypes and prejudices. Subsequently, the development of particular branches is presented, such as a gender-sensitive approach to the prevention of war crimes, gender perspectives in refugee law, and the evolution of gender-sensitive environmental law. In addition, the problematic situation of discrimination in the workplace is addressed from various perspectives. Many discussions, especially among EU member states, are reserved for the issue of women's participation in managerial boards, while the growing awareness of gender equality in international trade agreements represents another interesting topic. Lastly, the book offers a historical perspective on the development of international law in the interwar period, with a particular focus on the situation in Yugoslavia. The book critically reconsiders the dominant molds of legal knowledge and presents innovative gender-sensitive and gender-competent insights on a variety of issues in international law, in order to introduce readers to new research topics relevant to gender equality and to stimulate the development of an international legal and institutional framework for achieving greater gender equality in practice. The collection of essays presented here will be of interest to all those working in the field of international law, as well as students and academics looking to broaden and deepen their research on a range of issues in international law from gender perspectives.

Davinic, Marko / Kostic, Svetislav (eds.), Gender Competent Public Law and Policies. (Gender Perspectives in Law 2) 166 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <686-590>
ISBN 978-3-031-14705-0 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book offers a new perspective on public law and public policies. The collection of papers gathered here begins with an in-depth discussion on gender perspectives in constitutional law, which can support gender justice, but also perpetuate patriarchal norms. The book then analyzes the role of the European Ombudsman in the area of gender discrimination. Despite its limited jurisdiction, this institution has become a significant complementary tool in the protection of gender equality and the elimination of gender discrimination at the EU level. Particular attention is paid to the importance of mainstreaming gender into public policies. Thus, the legal and institutional frameworks of Spain and Serbia are presented, which can serve as an inspiration to other countries. Another important aspect covered in the book is an analysis of systemic differences between the average wages of women and men in the six countries of the Western Balkans. In turn, the book presents a discussion on female genital mutilation as a highly gendered crime based on extreme versions of rigid, patriarchal ethnic and religious norms and customs. It is analyzed through the lenses of the Istanbul Convention, as a tool for combating violence against women. Particular attention is paid to femicide, its definitions, forms, and phenomenological characteristics. Having been only recently acknowledged, femicide is still characterized by an inadequate judicial response in many countries. In this regard, a special focus is on German and Serbian experiences in acknowledging femicide and combating it through various measures. Finally, the importance of stalking laws is discussed, as stalking is a highly gendered crime that many states fail to combat adequately. The collection of essays offered in this book will be of interest to all those working in the field of public law, to policymakers, and to students and academics looking to broaden and deepen their research on various issues in public law and policies from gender perspectives.

クイア外交－同性愛嫌悪、国際関係、LGBTの人権
Janoff, Douglas Victor, Queer Diplomacy: Homophobia, International Relations and LGBT Human Rights. (Global Queer Politics) 232 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-606>
ISBN 978-3-031-07340-3 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book is the first study of multilateral LGBT human rights diplomacy viewed from the perspective of its practitioners: diplomats, LGBT activists, human rights experts and multilateral specialists. It demonstrates how diplomats and advocates work to promote LGBT rights on the world stage, often using Western constructs of sexual and gender identity. In turn, these efforts have triggered conflict and polarization: opposing states often deploy cultural, religious and moral discourses to minimize LGBT rights as a "legitimate" human right. The author, a seasoned Canadian foreign service officer, human rights negotiator and former community activist and researcher, uses insider perspectives to critically assess both bilateral and multilateral diplomatic engagement on LGBT human rights issues. Janoff's research involved participation in UN meetings in Geneva and New York and 29 interviews with diplomats, human rights advocates and experts, and representatives from the UN and other inter-governmental organizations. Although LGBT issues have been mainstreamed into many areas of bilateral and multilateral human rights policy, his research found a considerable gap: a coordinated diplomatic and civil society approach is needed to more effectively address ongoing human rights violations against LGBT people around the world.

Gill, Aisha K. / Begum, Hannah (eds.), Child Sexual Abuse in Black and Minoritised Communities: Improving Legal, Policy and Practical Responses. 276 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-647>
ISBN 978-3-031-06336-7 paper ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is believed to affect one in eight children worldwide (UNICEF, 2020). This authoritative book challenges widely-held problematic beliefs about CSA and discusses societal responses and attitudes to survivors. It brings together multidisciplinary expertise from key researchers and practitioners around the world to better understand CSA in Black and racially minoritised communities and to provide recommendations for improving legal, policy and practical responses. It provides an international overview, covering theory, practice and policy and action-oriented research to determine how countries can individually and collectively work to prevent CSA with specific, vulnerable groups and in general. It also examines how intersectional marginalisation affects experiences of, and responses to, CSA. This essential body of work is thoroughly researched and includes first hand testimony which will deepen the understanding of students, academics, policy-makers and professionals including social workers, service staff and activists working at the frontline.Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

性暴力と修復的司法
Keenan, Marie / Zinsstag, Estelle, Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice. 384 pp. 2022:10 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <686-651>
ISBN 978-0-19-885863-8 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *

Concerned by the high attrition rates for sexual crime and the secondary victimization experienced by victims during their participation in the criminal justice system, this book analyses the extent to which restorative justice can address the justice gap that exists in current justice provision. Building on clinical experience and earlier research on sexual crime the authors engage with the complex dynamics and traumatic impact of sexual crime as a critical starting point for their research and examine whether restorative justice can contribute to a more enhanced justice response. The book presents extensive new data on restorative justice as applied in sexual violence cases across the globe. It engages with feminist concerns regarding the traumatic impact of sexual violence and the power imbalances that characterise these offences, as well as the potential for re-traumatisation and re-victimisation during the judicial process. While there is a risk of coercion of the victim to participate in the process, and manipulation of restorative justice by the offender, restorative justice has the potential to lead to the reprivatisation of sexual crime and ultimately to its decriminalisation. Having examined these topics in detail, the book concludes there is an important role for restorative justice in addressing the justice gap that exists after sexual crime and offers guidance on how this can be achieved.

Ricordeau, Gwenola, Free Them All: A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System. Tr. by T. Roberge et al. 240 pp. 2023:8 (Verso, UK) <686-657>
ISBN 978-1-83976-273-4 paper ¥3,455.- (税込) GB￡ 11.99 *

How does the criminal justice system affect women's lives? Do prisons keep women safe? Should feminists rely on policing and the law to achieve women's liberation?The mainstream feminist movement has proposed "locking up the bad men," and called on prisons, the legal system, and the state to protect women from misogynist violence. This carceral approach to feminism, activist and scholar Gwenola Ricordeau argues, does not make women safer: it harms women, including victims of violence, and in particular people of color, poor people, and LGBTQ people.In this scintillating, comprehensive study, Ricordeau draws from two decades as an abolitionist activist and scholar of the penal justice system to describe how the criminal justice system hurts women. Considering the position of survivors of violence, criminalized women, and women with criminalized relatives, Ricordeau charts a new path to emancipation without incarceration. With a new foreword by Silvia Federici.

Almassi, Ben, Nontoxic: Masculinity, Allyship, and Feminist Philosophy. 116 pp. 2022:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-52>
ISBN 978-3-031-13070-0 hard ¥7,289.- (税込) EUR 29.99

This open access book argues for allyship masculinity as an open-ended, intersectional model for feminist men. It provides a roadmap for navigating between toxic masculinity on one side, and feminist androgyny on the other. Normative visions for what men should be take many forms. For some it is love and mindfulness; for others, wildness and heroic virtue. For still others the desire to separate a healthy manhood from toxic masculinity is a mistake: better to refuse to be men and salvage our humanity. Though Ben Almassi challenges the visions that Mary Wollstonecraft, bell hooks, and others have offered, he shares their belief that masculinity can be grounded in feminist values and practices. Almassi argues that we can make sense of relational allyship as practices of feminist masculinity, such that men can make distinctive and constructive contributions to gender justice in the unjust meantime.

Vujadinovic, Dragica / Froehlich, Mareike et al. (eds.), Gender-Competent Legal Education. (Springer Textbooks in Law) 709 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <686-548>
ISBN 978-3-031-14359-5 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99

Male-dominated law and legal knowledge essentially characterized the whole of pre-modern history in that the patriarchy represented the axis of social relations in both the private and public spheres. Indeed, modern and even contemporary law still have embedded elements of patriarchal heritage, even in the secular modern legal systems of Western developed countries, either within the content of legislation or in terms of its implementation and interpretation. This is true to a greater or lesser extent across legal systems, although the secular modern legal systems of the Western developed countries have made great advances in terms of gender equality. The traditional understanding of law has always been self-evidently dominated by men, but modern law and its understanding have also been more or less "malestreamed." Therefore, it has become necessary to overcome the given "maskulinity" of legal thought. In contemporary legal and political orders, gender mainstreaming of law has been of the utmost importance for overcoming deeply and persistently embedded power relations and gender-based, unequal social relations. At the same time and equally importantly, the gender mainstreaming of legal education - to which this book aims to contribute - can help to gradually eliminate this male dominance and accompanying power relations from legal education and higher education as a whole. This open access textbook provides an overview of gender issues in all areas of law, including sociological, historical and methodological issues. Written for students and teachers around the globe, it is intended to provide both a general overview and in-depth knowledge in the individual areas of law. Relevant court decisions and case studies are supplied throughout the book.

Romens, Anne-Iris, Deconstructing Essentialism: Migrant Women in Stratified Labour Markets. 156 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-359>
ISBN 978-3-031-14398-4 hard ¥10,936.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This book proposes an original approach to analyse the social and professional trajectories of migrant women with tertiary education. It focuses on the role of essentialism in stratifying labour markets based on gender, class and racialisation, and in limiting migrant women's employment opportunities. Based on multi-sited fieldwork conducted in France and Italy, the book highlights how essentialism influences the assessment of working capacities, stressing that skills are socially constructed and valued depending on who embodies them. It also emphasises that migrant women and labour market gatekeepers are not only passively accepting essentialism, but some are also resisting and eventually challenging this process. Deconstructing essentialism enables us to better understand the mechanisms that produce stratifications and aids in designing paths towards more equal access to employment.

Ivanhoe, Philip J. / Wang, Hwa Yeong (ed. & tr.), Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage: Essential Writings of Im Yungjidang and Gang Jeongildang. (Oxford New Histories of Philosophy) 392 pp. 2022:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <686-38>
ISBN 978-0-19-750868-8 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-750869-5 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage introduces the lives and ideas of two female Korean Confucian philosophers from the late Joseon Dynasty (18th-19th century), Im Yunjidang (1721-1793) and Gang Jeongildang (1772-1832), examining how their writings contribute to contemporary philosophical inquiry. Both philosophers are known for arguing that women are as capable as men of attaining the highest forms of intellectual and moral achievement and thereby can become female sages (yeoseong), with their reasoning building on distinctively Confucian philosophical claims about the original, pure moral nature shared by all human beings. Hwa Yeong Wang and Philip J. Ivanhoe provide an analysis of the social, political, and historical factors that surrounded these women and informed their writing. This volume explores how these female philosophers navigated the challenges presented by the extensively patriarchal culture in which they lived. Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang's resistance and response to the patriarchal context of late Joseon society informs the content and style of their writing, producing original philosophical ideas that remain of great value to the field today. By providing elegant English translations, thorough annotations, and analysis of the cultural and historical context of these writings, Wang and Ivanhoe provide a nuanced, informative, and invaluable look at the work of these two notable Korean female philosophers. This volume is certain to appeal to readers across the areas of Women's Studies, Philosophy, East Asian Studies, Literature, and more, diversifying the current canon and providing perspectives on philosophy that have for far too long been overlooked.

Garcia-Iglesias, Jaime, The Eroticizing of HIV: Viral Fantasies. (Health, Technology and Society) 121 pp. 2022:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-382>
ISBN 978-3-031-11351-2 hard ¥10,936.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This book examines sexual fantasies and their influence on everyday life through the stories of twenty-two men who introduce themselves as bugchasers, i.e. gay men who eroticize HIV. The author defines bugchasing, charts its history and contexts, and considers how it has changed in the age of internet and PrEP. Through the participants, their experiences and contexts, this text also theorizes about sexual fantasies, seeking to understand how people define sexual fantasies and use the internet as a space to navigate their desires, meet others, and find support. Chapters also consider the practical implications of fantasy, most notably, how fantasies influence men's decisions around HIV prevention and care. This book speaks to renewed interest in both the AIDS crisis and the sociology of everyday life to illustrate how fantasies such as bugchasing appear, evolve, and adapt. This book will be of interest to scholars focused on queer studies, sexuality studies, gender studies, and healthcare.

ドイツ観念論とフェミニスト哲学ハンドブック
Lettow, Susanne / Pulkkinen, Tuija (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy. (Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism) 508 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-41>
ISBN 978-3-031-13122-6 hard ¥43,754.- (税込) EUR 179.99 *

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the relation between German Idealism and feminist philosophy has been explored. It demonstrates the significance of German Idealism for feminist philosophy, and simultaneously brings out the relevance of feminist readings and interpretations for a critical understanding of German Idealism. Key Features: * Presents original work on the German Idealists and considers their legacy within feminist thought from different philosophical perspectives. * Incorporates perspectives from queer theory, new materialism and critical philosophy of race, and so explores German Idealism through the subversion and transformation of meanings and conceptual arrangements. * Challenges the epistemic boundaries of philosophy by engaging the thought of women contemporary with the German Idealists such as Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Guenderrode. * Places the work of the German Idealists on gender, sexuality, marriage and family within the wider contexts of colonialism and European nation building. * Considers how several key concepts of German Idealism (such as subject, reason, enlightenment, autonomy and the sublime) have been central targets of feminist theory. * Includes a Black feminist critique of Kantian universalism. Fully reflecting the diversity that characterizes feminist thinking today, The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy is essential reading for scholars and graduate students of German idealism, feminist philosophy and feminist theory. Chapter(s) "The Taxonomy of 'Race' and the Anthropology of Sex: Conceptual Determination and Social Presumption in Kant" is/are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Robson, Charmaine, Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936-1986. 271 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-197>
ISBN 978-3-031-05795-3 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book focuses on twentieth-century Australian leprosaria to explore the lives of indigenous patients and the Catholic women missionaries who nursed them. Distinguished from previous historical studies of leprosy, the book examines the care and management of the incarcerated, enabling a broader understanding of their experience, beyond a singular trope of banishment, oppression and death. From the 1930s until the 1980s, respective governments appointed the trained sisters to four leprosaria across remote northern Australia, where almost two thousand people had been removed from their homes and detained under law for years - sometimes decades. The book traces the sisters' holistic nursing from early efforts of amelioration and palliation to their part in the successful treatment of leprosy after World War II. It reveals the ways the sisters stepped out of their assigned roles and attempted to shape the institutions as places of health and hygiene, of European culture and education, and of Christianity. Making use of accounts from patients, doctors; bureaucrats; missionary men; and Indigenous families and communities, the book offers fresh perspectives on two important strands of history. First, its attention to the day-to-day work of the Australian sisters helps to demystify leprosy healthcare by female missionaries, generally. Secondly, with the sisters specifically caring for Indigenous people, this book exposes the institutional practices and goals specific to race relations of both the Australian government and Catholic missionaries. An important and timely read for anyone interested in Indigenous history, medical history and the connections between race, religion and healthcare, this book contextualizes the twentieth-century leprosy epidemic within Australia's broader colonial history.

Mikulak, Magdalena, Parenting Trans and Non-binary Children: Exploring Practices of Love, Support, and Everyday Advocacy. 163 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1136>
ISBN 978-3-031-09863-5 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

Based on interviews conducted with parents of trans and gender diverse children in the UK, this book presents an account and analysis of the love, support, and advocacy involved in parenting trans and gender diverse children. Mikulak explores how parents negotiate and challenge cis-normativity to make familial, educational, and healthcare settings livable for their trans and gender diverse children. By examining the educational and emotional labor that parents perform as they advocate for their children across these different settings, the book highlights the value of parental expertise and labor while calling out the systemic failures that continue to make this work necessary. This research will be of interest to scholars researching family studies, kinship studies, gender studies, and queer studies.

Mahawatte, Royce / Willson, Jacki (eds.), Dangerous Bodies: New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression. (Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body) 225 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1173>
ISBN 978-3-031-06207-0 hard ¥20,660.- (税込) EUR 84.99

This edited book brings together new perspectives on fashion, the body, and politics. The intention of this collection is to explore the cultural intersection between bodies, fashion, and transgression, often in the most unlikely of locations. Bodies are political players in culture and the authors gathered here ask a range of pressing questions. What role do fashioned bodies play in resistance, in meeting governmental boundaries or institutional power? Arguably, fashion is an aspect of modern warfare and style can defend and attack in cultural space. So, how do fashioned bodies occupy the grey area between social control and the resistance to power? This book is interdisciplinary and international, with contributors situated within a broad range of disciplines including Art History and Critical Practice, Cultural Studies, Fashion Critical Studies, Film and Literary Studies, Performance Studies, Politics and International Studies, Sociology, Gender, Queer, LGBTI, andCritical Race Studies.

O'Donnell, Jessica, Gamergate and Anti-Feminism in the Digital Age. 238 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1178>
ISBN 978-3-031-14056-3 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99 *

This book provides an in-depth, feminist and sociological analysis of Gamergate, a major social movement and anti-feminist harassment campaign. Gamergate provides a clear example of both how a modern anti-feminist 'backlash' is enacted, and how feminists in the digital age respond. Chapters connect Gamergate to the broader Men's Rights Activism (MRA) political movement, examining men's anxieties surrounding what they see as an erosion of male privilege, their conflation of privilege with rights, as well as their use of social media to harass and attack women as a response to their perceived oppression. Likewise, the author analyses the online strategies used by feminists to respond to this backlash, how social media is harnessed to build a feminist movement, the effectiveness of these online strategies, and the parallels that these actions have with those from previous waves of feminism. Finally, the author reflects on what has changed with regards to MRA, online harassment, and digital feminism after the height of Gamergate.This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender Studies, Sociology, and Media Studies.

Roberts, Cheryl, Consuming Mass Fashion in 1930s England: Design, Manufacture and Retailing for Young Working-Class Women. (Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body) 333 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1183>
ISBN 978-3-030-94612-8 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book details a significant and largely untold history of the demand for cheap, fashionable clothing for young working-class women. This is an interdisciplinary fashion and business history analysis that investigates the design, manufacture, retailing and consumption of fashion for and by young working-class women in 1930s Britain. It concentrates on new mass developments in the design and manufacture of lightweight day dresses styled for younger women, and on their retailing in the second-hand trade and seconds dealing, street markets, new multiple stores, department stores, independent dress shops and home dressmaking. The book also discusses the specific impact of this new product within the emerging mass manufactured goods mail order catalogue industry in England. These outlets all offered venues of consumption to the young, employed, modern working-class woman, and are analysed in the context of old and new businesses practices. The actuality of the garments worn by these young women is paramount to this research and will be at the forefront of all findings and outcomes.

Balani, Sita, Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race. 192 pp. 2023:5 (Verso, UK) <686-1221>
ISBN 978-1-83976-102-7 paper ¥4,896.- (税込) GB￡ 16.99 *

If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? The trickery of race, Sita Balani argues, comes down to how it is embedded in everyday life through the domain we take to be most intimate and essential: sexuality. Modernity inaugurates a new political subject made legible as an individual through the nuclear family, sexual adventure and the pursuit of romantic love. By examining the regulation of sexual life at Britain's borders, in colonial India, and through the functioning of the welfare state, marriage laws, education, and counterterrorism, Balani reveals that sexuality has become fatally intertwined with the making of race.

Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major, Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Times of a Black Trans Revolutionary. 176 pp. 2023:1 (Verso, UK) <686-1232>
ISBN 978-1-83976-334-2 paper ¥2,878.- (税込) GB￡ 9.99 *

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built. She has shared tips with other sex workers in the nascent drag ball scene of the late 1960s, and helped found one of America's first needle exchange clinics from the back of her van. Miss Major Speaks is both document of her brilliant life-told with intimacy, warmth and an undeniable levity-and a roadmap for the challenges black, brown, queer and trans youth will face on the path to liberation today. Her incredible story of a life lived and a world survived becomes a conduit for larger questions about the riddle of collective liberation. For a younger generation, she warns about the traps of 'representation,' the politics of 'self-care,' and the frequent dead-ends of non-profit organizing; for all of us, she is a strike against those who would erase these histories of struggle. Miss Major offers something that cannot be found elsewhere: an affirmation that our vision for freedom can and must be more expansive than those on offer by mainstream institutions.

Bilic, Viktorija / Efford, Alison Clark (Hrsg.), Radikale Beziehungen: Die Beriefkorrespondenz der Mathilde Franziska Anneke zur Zeit des amerikanischen Buergerkriegs. 248 S. 2022:11 (F. Steiner, GW) <686-1258>
ISBN 978-3-515-13331-9 hard ¥10,696.- (税込) EUR 44.00 *

Diese Briefsammlung enthuellt den bemerkenswerten persoenlichen wie politischen Radikalismus der Mathilde Franziska Anneke. In Preussen war sie eine namhafte Feministin und Demokratin, die allgemeine Bekanntheit erlangte, als sie sich von ihrem ersten Ehemann scheiden liess und an den Revolutionen von 1848/49 teilnahm. Nach ihrer Auswanderung in die Vereinigten Staaten wurde sie eine bekannte Vertreterin von Abolitionismus, Frauenwahlrecht und Maedchenbildung. Den Zeitraum zwischen 1859 und 1865 praegte ihre intensive romantische Freundschaft mit der Abolitionistin Mary Booth. Sieben Jahre lang war Anneke ihrer Freundin eine Stuetze, als deren Ehemann Sherman erst wegen "Verfuehrung" angeklagt und dann wegen seines Abolitionismus inhaftiert war. Die beiden Frauen zogen mit drei ihrer Kinder nach Zuerich, wo sie Antisklaverei-Literatur verfassten, sich mit fuehrenden Radikalen umgaben und den amerikanischen Buergerkrieg verfolgten. Annekes Briefe vermitteln einen neuen Blickwinkel auf eine bedeutende deutschamerikanische Frauenrechtlerin und neue Erkenntnisse zur Geschichte des transatlantischen Radikalismus.

Bokody, Peter, The Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy. 300 pp. 2023:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-1259>
ISBN 978-1-00-910068-7 hard ¥21,615.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *

This book is the first comprehensive study of images of rape in Italian painting at the dawn of the Renaissance. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Peter Bokody examines depictions of sexual violence in religion, law, medicine, literature, politics, and history writing produced in kingdoms (Sicily and Naples) and city-republics (Florence, Siena, Lucca, Bologna and Padua). Whilst misogynistic endorsement characterized many of these visual discourses, some urban communities condemned rape in their propaganda against tyranny. Such representations of rape often link gender and aggression to war, abduction, sodomy, prostitution, pregnancy, and suicide. Bokody also traces how the new naturalism in painting, introduced by Giotto, increased verisimilitude, but also fostered imagery that coupled eroticism and violation. Exploring images and texts that have long been overlooked, Bokody's study provides new insights at the intersection of gender, policy, and visual culture, with evident relevance to our contemporary condition.

Campbell, Alice, Sexual Fluidity Among Millennial Women: Journeys Across a Shifting Sexual Landscape. 239 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1260>
ISBN 978-3-031-13649-8 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

Drawing on data collected from over 8,000 millennial women in Australia, this book proposes a new theory of women's sexual identity that accounts for various sociocultural, historical, and interactional factors that inform women's sexualities. The author provides a new model for understanding changes in sexual identity among women. Each new chapter focuses on a new aspect of their model: the contemporary context in which women are navigating sexual identities; sexual landscapes and the degree of heteronormativity that characterizes various sexual landscapes; experiences of sexual violence and their potential associations with the sexual trajectories of women; and the potential health and wellbeing implications of changes in sexual identity. Taken as a whole, this text challenges the essentialist framing of the "species" narrative in favor of a more nuanced and socially situated analysis of women's sexualities throughout the life course.This monograph will be of interest to scholars and students in sociology, gender and sexuality studies, and psychology.

世界中の女性共産主義運動家ハンドブック
de Haan, Francisca (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists Around the World. 804 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1262>
ISBN 978-3-031-13126-4 hard ¥48,616.- (税込) EUR 199.99 *

This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of activism, political strategies and transnational networks. Comprising twenty-five chapters, based on new and primary research, the book presents the lives of self-identified communist women from a truly international perspective and outlines their struggles against fascism and colonialism, and for women's emancipation and national liberation. By using the lens of transnational political biography, the chapters capture the broader picture of these women's lives, unpacking the links between the so-called public and private, the power structures and inequalities of their societies, the formal networks and politics in which they were involved, and the informal connections and friendships that supported their activism both at the national and international level. Challenging androcentric and Eurocentric narratives about communism, this Handbook reveals the active and significant roles of women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century communist movements and regimes, and highlights the importance of communist women in shaping the agenda for women's rights worldwide.

Elbourne, Elizabeth, Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842. (Critical Perspectives on Empire) 345 pp. 2022:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-1263>
ISBN 978-1-108-47922-6 hard ¥25,938.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

Empire, Kinship and Violence traces the history of three linked imperial families in Britain and across contested colonial borderlands from 1770 to 1842. Elizabeth Elbourne tracks the Haudenosaunee Brants of northeastern North America from the American Revolution to exile in Canada; the Bannisters, a British family of colonial administrators, whistleblowers and entrepreneurs who operated across Australia, Canada and southern Africa; and the Buxtons, a family of British abolitionists who publicized information about what might now be termed genocide towards Indigenous peoples while also pioneering humanitarian colonialism. By recounting the conflicts that these interlinked families were involved in she tells a larger story about the development of British and American settler colonialism and the betrayal of Indigenous peoples. Through an analysis of the changing politics of kinship and violence, Elizabeth Elbourne sheds new light on transnational debates about issues such as Indigenous sovereignty claims, British subjecthood, violence, land rights and cultural assimilation.

Handforth, Rachel, Belonging, Gender and Identity in the Doctoral Years: Across Time and Space. (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education) 276 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1267>
ISBN 978-3-031-11949-1 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book uses belonging as a lens through which to understand women students' experiences of studying for a doctorate, exploring the impact of academic cultures on career aspirations. Drawing on discourses of neoliberalism and academic identities, it makes a valuable contribution to ongoing discussions of gender inequality in the academy. Based on data gathered from women doctoral students in the UK, this book offers a contemporary, research-informed understanding of the doctorate as an inherently gendered experience, which has implications for individuals, academic institutions, and for the future of the academic sector. The book will be of interest to academics working in the area of doctoral education, doctoral supervisors and those involved in doctoral student support, including researcher developers and individuals working in graduate schools, as well as doctoral students themselves.

Haywood, Chris, Sex Clubs: Recreational Sex, Fantasies and Cultures of Desire. 212 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1268>
ISBN 978-3-031-14049-5 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores the hidden world of sex clubs. These are not strip clubs, lap dancing clubs, or brothels; these are clubs that men and women visit to have no strings attached sex. Each year sex clubs, traditionally called swingers clubs, are visited by over one million people in the UK. Using social and cultural theory, the author explores the cultures of desire through themes such as erotic hierarchies, atmospheres and power, women and sexual fantasies, men, masculinity and non-consent, hypersexualized black bodies, heterosexuality and queer heteroeroticism and trans desires. From cuckolding to group sex, bareback sex to intergenerational sex, partner swapping and threesomes to BDSM and fetish nights, sex clubs host a diverse range of sexual encounters that are part of a growing trend of recreational sex. Despite there being over 40 clubs in the UK alone, we continue to know very little about who is visiting the club, why they go there and what people do. Thisbook-drawing upon ethnographies, interviews and large-scale quantitative data-is one of the first in the field to systematically collect and critically interrogate sex clubs and their erotic encounters. This will not only be the first sustained social and cultural analysis of sex clubs themselves, but it also aims to lure the reader into the club through discussions of ethnographic encounters, enabling them to experience the unique dynamics of sex clubs and their cultures of desire.

Janega, Eleanor, The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society. 272 pp. 2023:3 (Norton, US) <686-1271>
ISBN 978-0-393-86781-7 hard ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal what's shifted over time-and what hasn't. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost always male, subscribed to a blend of classical Greek and Roman philosophy and Christian theology for their concepts of the sexes. For the height of female attractiveness, they chose the mythical Helen of Troy, whose imagined pear shape, small breasts, and golden hair served as beauty's epitome. Casting Eve's shadow over medieval women, they derided them as oversexed sinners, inherently lustful, insatiable and weak. And, unless a nun, a woman was to be the embodiment of perfect motherhood. In contrast, drawing on accounts of remarkable and subversive medieval women like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Hildegard of Bingen, along with others hidden in documents and court cases, Janega shows us how real women of the era lived. While often mothers, they were industrious farmers, brewers, textile workers, artists and artisans and paved the way for new ideas about women's nature, intellect and ability. In The Once and Future Sex, Janega unravels the restricting expectations on medieval women and the ones on women today. She boldly questions why, if our ideas of women have changed drastically over time, we cannot reimagine them now to create a more equitable future.

Jaquet, Chantal, Transclasses: A Theory of Social Non-Reproduction. Tr. by G. Elliott. 208 pp. 2023:5 (Verso, UK) <686-1273>
ISBN 978-1-83976-885-9 paper ¥5,472.- (税込) GB￡ 18.99 *

One is not born a worker or a boss, one becomes one from father to son... or almost. Social reproduction is not an iron law; it admits of exceptions that must be accounted for in order to measure its scope. This book aims to understand the passage from one social class to another and to forge a method of approaching these particular cases which remain a blind spot in the theory of social reproduction. It analyzes the political, economic, social, familial and singular causes that contribute to non-reproduction, and their effects on the constitution of individuals transiting from one class to another.At the crossroads of collective history and intimate history, Chantal Jaquet identifies class locations, the interplay of affects and encounters, and the role of sexual and racial differences. She invites us to break out of disciplinary isolation in order to grasp singularity at the crossroads of philosophy, sociology, psychology and literature. This requires deconstruction of the concepts of social and personal identity, in favour of a concepts like complexion and the criss-crossing determinations. Through the figure of the transclass, it is thus the whole human condition that is illuminated in a new light.

Kaiser, Tobias / Schulz, Andreas, "Vorhang auf!" - Frauen in Parlament und Politik. (Beitraege zur Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien) 556 S. 2022:10 (Droste, GW) <686-1274>
ISBN 978-3-7700-5356-8 paper ¥12,105.- (税込) EUR 49.80 *

In vielen Laendern Europas ging nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg die Epoche exklusiv maennlicher Dominanz in der Politik zu Ende. Mit der demokratischen Wahlrechtsreform hatte die Frauenbewegung ein wichtiges Etappenziel erreicht. Doch blieben nationale Ungleichzeitigkeiten bestehen, und nach wie vor waren Frauen in Parlamenten und Parteien ungleich vertreten. Wie sich die ersten Parlamentarierinnen in einer maennlich gepraegten Umgebung behaupteten und wie sie durch ihre Performanz die Geschlechterordnung partiell veraenderten, davon handeln die Beitraege dieses Bandes.

避妊と現代アイルランド－社会史　1922～92年
Kelly, Laura, Contraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History, c.1922-92. 350 pp. 2022:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-1276>
ISBN 978-1-108-83910-5 hard ¥20,170.- (税込) GB￡ 69.99 *
ISBN 978-1-108-96977-2 paper ¥6,625.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

Contraception was the subject of intense controversy in twentieth-century Ireland. Banned in 1935 and stigmatised by the Catholic Church, it was the focus of some of the most polarised debates before and after its legalisation in 1979. This is the first comprehensive, dedicated history of contraception in Ireland from the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 to the 1990s. Drawing on the experiences of Irish citizens through a wide range of archival sources and oral history, Laura Kelly provides insights into the lived experiences of those negotiating family planning, alongside the memories of activists who campaigned for and against legalisation. She highlights the influence of the Catholic Church's teachings and legal structures on Irish life showing how, for many, sex and contraception were obscured by shame. Yet, in spite of these constraints, many Irish women and men showed resistance in accessing contraceptive methods. This title is also available as Open Access.

Lawson, Robert, Language and Mediated Masculinities: Cultures, Contexts, Constraints. (Studies in Language and Gender) 344 pp. 2023:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <686-1278>
ISBN 978-0-19-008104-1 hard ¥28,050.- (税込) US$ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-008105-8 paper ¥9,870.- (税込) US$ 43.99 *

From television shows to the manosphere, and from alt-right communities to fatherhood forums, debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape. What does it mean to be a man in contemporary society? How is masculinity constituted in different media spaces? This growing cultural tension around masculinities has been discussed and analyzed both for general audiences and in burgeoning academic scholarship. What has been typically overlooked, however, is the role that language plays in these mediated performances of masculinity. In Language and Mediated Masculinities, Robert Lawson draws on data from newspapers, social media sites, television programs, and online forums to explore language and masculinities across a range of media contexts. The book offers a critical evaluation of the intersection between language, masculinities, and identities in contemporary society and addresses three key questions: How are masculinities constructed, in both public and private spheres, through linguistic and discursive strategies? How does language about masculinity and men affect (and recreate) gender ideologies in different social, political, and historical contexts? What might the language of men tell us about the state of contemporary gender relations in the twenty-first century? Lawson furthers our understanding of how language is implicated in (re)creating gender ideologies and how it shapes contemporary gender relations. Against a cultural backdrop of rising neoliberalism, ethnic nationalism, online radicalization, networked misogyny, and fractious gender relations, this book is an important contribution to charting how language is used to monitor, evaluate, and police masculinities in online and offline spaces.

Morgenstern, Christine, Gleichstellung: Impulse aus der Frauenbewegung und Erfahrungen aus einem Vierteljahrhundert Frauenpolitik. 256 S. 2022:9 (VSA, GW) <686-1282>
ISBN 978-3-96488-161-8 paper ¥4,812.- (税込) EUR 19.80 *

Nachhaltige Erfolge in der Frauen- und Gleichstellungspolitik lassen sich nur dann erreichen, wenn man auch die soziale Frage insgesamt in den Blick nimmt. Als Querschnittsthema ist Frauenpolitik dafuer praedestiniert, andere grosse Themen und Probleme aufzugreifen und gemeinsam uebergreifende Strategien zu entwickeln. Globales Denken und gemeinsames Handeln werden immer wichtiger ? nicht nur fuer Gleichberechtigung in Deutschland und weltweit, sondern auch fuer soziale Gerechtigkeit, fuer eine intakte Umwelt und fuer eine friedliche Welt. Christine Morgenstern hat ein Vierteljahrhundert in diesem Bereich gearbeitet, reichlich Erfahrungen mit Desinteresse und Ignoranz gemacht, mit Missverstaendnissen und mit den beruehmten Muehen der Ebene ? aber auch mit grossem Engagement, mit innovativen Ideen und spannenden Debatten. Ihr Fazit lautet: Es ist sehr viel erreicht worden, natio-nal und international. Aber es bleibt noch viel zu tun, bis Gleichstellung ganz selbstverstaendlich in der Mitte der Gesellschaft angekommen und fuer Frauen und Maennern tatsaechlich erreicht sein wird. Aus dem Inhalt: Gleichstellung ? wo stehen wir heute? Der lange Weg zur Gleichberechtigung Institutionalisierte Frauenpolitik ? der Fortschritt ist (k)eine Schnecke Mehr Frauen in die Politik! Gleichstellungspolitische Instrumente und Strategien Frauen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt Bekaempfung von Gewalt gegen Frauen Der ewige Kampf um und gegen den Paragr. 218 Kontroversen in der frauenpolitischen Debatte Von der Maennerbewegung zur Maennerpolitik? Gleichstellung, Antidiskriminierung und Diversity Antifeminismus und Nationalismus ? Renaissance des Patriarchats? Die Frauenfrage und die soziale Frage Herausforderung Corona Global denken und handeln Was ist zu tun?

Norris, Sian, Bodies Under Siege: The Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights. 272 pp. 2023:6 (Verso, UK) <686-1283>
ISBN 978-1-83976-473-8 paper ¥5,472.- (税込) GB￡ 18.99 *

Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremists. Many of them are avowedly fascist and white supremacist, afraid of a "great replacement" of the world's white population by other races, who are working hard to reshape governments and policies across Europe, North America and around the world. Much of this far-right organizing and funding network, however, has been overlooked by today's feminist and left movements. As investigative journalist Sian Norris uncovers here, it is through attacking abortion rights that fascist ideas from the dark web, incel chat boards, and fringe organizations comes to enter mainstream debate -- and to then shape governmental policy across Europe, from authoritarian regimes like Hungary's to liberal democracies like Britain. As Norris goes undercover at anti-abortion activist meetings, and pieces together the money trail linking American think tanks to far-right fascist groups, she maps out the pipeline by which fascism has become respectable across the Global North by taking away women's reproductive rights and autonomy.

Placha, Pavla, Zerrissene Leben: Tschechoslowakische Frauen im Konzentrationslager Ravensbrueck 1939-1945. Aus dem Tschechischen von M. Jakes. 488 S. 2022:12 (VSA, GW) <686-1285>
ISBN 978-3-96488-169-4 hard ¥8,459.- (税込) EUR 34.80 *

Unter den mehr als 25.000 Frauen, die zwischen 1939 und 1945 im zentralen Frauen-Konzentrationslager des nationalsozialistischen Deutschlands in Ravensbrueck gefangen gehalten wurden, gab es zahlreiche tschechoslowakische Frauen. Auf Grundlage von umfangreichen Forschungen in einheimischen und auslaendischen Archiven sowie der Auswertung zahlreicher Zeitzeuginnenberichte arbeitet die Autorin im Kontext der NS-Verfolgungspolitik die innere Struktur der Gruppe heraus und entwirft eine Typologie der inhaftierten Frauen. Pavla Placha beruecksichtigt die gegenseitigen Beziehungen und Konflikte sowie ihre Verarbeitung des Erlebten in Nachkriegserinnerungen. Thema ist auch der Umgang mit diesen Erinnerungen durch die jeweiligen politisch Verantwortlichen bis zur Aufloesung der ?SSR und der neuen tschechischen Behoerden. Beruecksichtigt werden auch diejenigen Gruppen, die ueber Jahrzehnte tabuisiert oder marginalisiert wurden, u.a. tschechoslowakische Staatsangehoerige deutscher Nationalitaet, Frauen aus der Slowakei und dem Teschen (Cieszyn-T?in)-Gebiet, Frauen juedischer Herkunft oder Sintezze und Romni. Es geht zudem um die spezifisch weiblichen Aspekte der Haft: sexualisierte Gewalt, Zwangsprostitution, pseudomedizinische Versuche, die Verletzung der Schamgefuehle oder der Verlust der Privat-sphaere sowie Mutterschaft oder intime Beziehungen -zwischen den Frauen in der KZ-Haft.

Santos, Ana Cristina (ed.), LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe: Citizenship, Care and Choice. (Citizenship, Gender and Diversity) 254 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <686-1290>
ISBN 978-3-031-13507-1 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-13510-1 paper ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This Open Access book argues that Southern European countries offer valuable, though historically overlooked, knowledge regarding intimate citizenship. Guided by the fundamental sociological question of how change takes place and, concomitantly, how law and social policy adjust to and/or shape the practices and expectations of individuals in the sphere of intimacy, this edited volume explores partnering, parenting and friendship issues from the perspective of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people in Italy, Portugal and Spain. Chapters offer a cross-national understanding of the relationship between everyday practices of intimacy amongst LGBTQ people and national legal, political and policy contexts in terms of the recognition of otherwise 'intimate strangers'. The book contributes to further theoretical and policy debates about citizenship, care and choice, as well as, more broadly, sexuality, welfare, health and justice. This book will be of interest to scholars across Gender and Feminist Studies as well as Citizenship Studies, Law, Policy, and Politics.

中世及び近世欧州における不妊－無子への前近代の視点
Toepfer, Regina, Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Premodern Views on Childlessness. 255 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1291>
ISBN 978-3-031-08976-3 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early modern Europe. ?Whereas in our own time reproductive behaviour is regulated by demographic policy in the interest of upholding the intergenerational contract, premodern rulers strove to secure the succession to their thrones and preserve family heritage. Regardless of status, infertility could have drastic consequences, above all for women, and lead to social discrimination, expulsion, and divorce. Rather than outlining a history of discrimination against or the suffering of infertile couples, this book explores the mechanisms used to justify the unequal treatment of persons without children. Exploring views on childlessness across theology, medicine, law, demonology, and ethics, it undertakes a comprehensive examination of 'fertility' as an identity category from the perspective of new approaches in gender and intersectionality research. Shedding light on how premodern views have shaped understandings our own time, this book is highly relevant interest to students and scholars interested in discourses around infertility across history.

Townsend, David, Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric: Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy. (Cultures of Latin from Antiquity to the Enlightenment) 136 pp. 2022:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-1292>
ISBN 978-1-00-920688-4 hard ¥17,288.- (税込) GB￡ 59.99 *
ISBN 978-1-00-920687-7 paper ¥5,184.- (税込) GB￡ 17.99 *

This book reflects on what medieval Latin authors don't say about the sex nobody had-or maybe some had-and about how they don't say it. Their silences are artfully constructed, according to a rhetorical tradition reaching back to classical practice and theory. The strategy of preterition calls attention to something scandalous precisely by claiming to pass over it. Because it gestures toward what's missing from the text itself, it epitomizes a destabilizing reliance on audience reaction that informs the whole of classical rhetoric's technology of persuasion. Medieval Latin preterition invites our growing awareness, when we attend to it closely, that silence is not single, but that silences are multiple. Their multiplicity consists not in what preterition is, but in what it does. Preterition's multiple silences enabled subversive interpretations by individuals and communities marginalized under dominant regimes of sexuality-as they still do today.

Williamson Sinalo, Caroline / Mandolini, Nicoletta (eds.), Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives. 320 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1294>
ISBN 978-3-031-13450-0 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book focuses on the politics, ethics and stereotypical pitfalls of representational practices surrounding Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from a global perspective. The originality of the volume is linked to its cross-disciplinary perspective as the topic of representing GBV is analyzed across the domains of philosophy/epistemology, fiction and the arts (including literature, film, television series and music) and non-fictional representations in the media (including broadcast media, online/print journalism, transmedia activism). The volume identifies contemporary representational practices and the theoretical and critical responses, examining various aspects of popular culture from around the world. In doing so, the editors put feminism in conversation with global trends to identify its cultural frontline. The volume will appeal to scholars working on gender and violence from diverse fields.