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

Dragomir, Cristina-Ioana, Making the Immigrant Soldier: How Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Intersect in the US Military. 256 pp. 2023:4 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <693-951>
ISBN 978-0-252-04503-5 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08716-5 paper ¥6,036.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

Immigrants to the United States have long used the armed forces as a shortcut to citizenship. Cristina-Ioana Dragomir profiles Lily, Alexa, and Vikrant, three immigrants of varying nationalities and backgrounds who chose military service as their way of becoming American citizens. Privileging the trio's own words and experiences, Dragomir crafts a human-focused narrative that moves from their lives in their home countries and decisions to join the military to their fraught naturalization processes within the service. Dragomir illuminates how race, ethnicity, class, and gender impacted their transformation from immigrant to soldier, veteran, and American. She explores how these factors both eased their journeys and created obstacles that complicated their access to healthcare, education, economic resources, and other forms of social justice. A compelling union of analysis and rich storytelling, Making the Immigrant Soldier traces the complexities of serving in the military in order to pursue the American dream.

Niumai, Ajailiu / Chauhan, Abha (eds.), Gender, Law and Social Transformation in India. 282 pp. 2022:12 (Springer, GW) <693-600>
ISBN 978-981-19-8019-0 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book provides deep insights into the wide-ranging issues linked to gender, law, and social transformation in India. It focuses on women-centered laws as well as the violence of unequal and discriminatory social order. It emphasizes violence and the neutrality of laws that sustain the status quo and perpetuate the stereotypical notions related to women's condition. Based on the first-hand experience of laws and their nuanced understanding, the essays highlight the rules associated with the private and the public domains. The chapters in the volume analyze various statutes and their enactment related to domestic violence, dowry crimes, sexual abuse at home as well as sexual harassment at the workplace, child marriages, education, property rights, trafficking, prostitution, 'honor' killings, and armed conflict. The book is essential to the academics and researchers in the disciplines of social sciences, gender studies, law, and the government and policy-makers for making meaningful interventions.

Cook, Rebecca J. (ed.), Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives. (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) 616 pp. 2023:5 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <693-662>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2355-4 hard ¥21,549.- (税込) US$ 99.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5128-2356-1 paper ¥11,847.- (税込) US$ 54.95 *

In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality. This volume demonstrates that the wrongs of discrimination can best be understood from the perspective of the discriminated, and that gender discrimination persists and grows in new and different contexts, widening the gap between the principle of gender equality and its realization, particularly for subgroups of women and LGBTQ+ peoples. Frontiers of Gender Equality provides retrospective views of the struggles to eliminate gender discrimination in national courts and international human rights treaties. Focusing on gender equality enables comparisons and contrasts among these regimes to better understand how they reinforce gender equality norms. Different regional and international treaties are examined, those in the forefront of advancing gender equality, those that are promising but little known, and those whose focus includes economic, social, and cultural rights, to explore why some struggles were successful and others less so. The book illustrates how gender discrimination continues to be normalized and camouflaged, and how it intersects with other axes of subordination, such as indigeneity, religion, and poverty, to create new forms of intersectional discrimination. With the benefit of hindsight, the book's contributors reconstruct gender equalities in concrete situations. Given the increasingly porous exchanges between domestic and international law, various national, regional, and international decisions and texts are examined to determine how better to breathe life into equality from the perspectives, for instance, of Indigenous and Muslim women, those who were violated sexually and physically, and those needing access to necessary health care, including abortion. The conclusion suggests areas of future research, including how to translate the concept of intersectionality into normative and institutional settings, which will assist in promoting the goals of gender equality.

Pillai, Shreerekha (ed.), Carceral Liberalism: Feminist Voices against State Violence. (Dissident Feminisms) 272 pp. 2023:8 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <693-719>
ISBN 978-0-252-04518-9 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08732-5 paper ¥6,036.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

One of Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Carceral liberalism emerges from the confluence of neoliberalism, carcerality, and patriarchy to construct a powerful ruse disguised as freedom. It waves the feminist flag while keeping most women still at the margins. It speaks of a post-race society while one in three Black men remain incarcerated. It sings the praises of capital while the dispossessed remain mired in debt. Shreerekha Pillai edits essays on carceral liberalism that continue the trajectory of the Combahee River Collective and the many people inspired by its vision of feminist solidarity and radical liberation. Academics, activists, writers, and a formerly incarcerated social worker look at feminist resurgence and resistance within, at the threshold of, and outside state violence; observe and record direct and indirect forms of carcerality sponsored by the state and shaped by state structures, traditions, and actors; and critique carcerality. Acclaimed poets like Honoree Fanonne Jeffers and Solmaz Sharif amplify the volume's themes in works that bookend each section. Cutting-edge yet historically grounded, Carceral Liberalism examines an American ideological creation that advances imperialism, anti-blackness, capitalism, and patriarchy. Contributors: Maria F. Curtis, Joanna Eleftheriou, Autumn Elizabeth and Zarinah Agnew and D Coulombe, Jeremy Eugene, Demita Frazier, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Alka Kurian, Cassandra D. Little, Beth Matusoff Merfish, Francisco Argueelles Paz y Puente, Shreerekha Pillai, Marta Romero-Delgado, Ravi Shankar, Solmaz Sharif, Shailza Sharma, Tria Blu Wakpa and Jennifer Musial, Javier Zamora

Prust, Christian, Das neue Naturrecht und die Sexualethik. (Alber Thesen Philosophie 88) 450 S. 2023 (K. Alber, GW) <693-77>
ISBN 978-3-495-99824-3 paper ¥22,127.- (税込) EUR 94.00 *

Der Verfasser legt mit seinem Buch eine differenzierte und kritisch-konstruktive Studie zur ?New Natural Law Theory“ vor, die in der deutschsprachigen Philosophie wenig Beachtung findet. Sie ist aber durchaus sehr diskussionswuerdig, weil sie nicht nur systematisch ausgesprochen anspruchsvoll und interessant ist, sondern - insbesondere mit Blick auf ihre restriktive Sexualethik - auch kontrovers und polarisierend. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit besteht darin, die ?New Natural Law Theory“ im Kern zu verteidigen, zugleich aber - gruendend auf ihren eigenen naturrechtlichen Praemissen - eine weniger restriktive, sondern weitaus liberalere Sexualethik zu begruenden.

Tate, Katherine / Robnett, Belinda, Gendered Pluralism. (CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics) 200 pp. 2023:1 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <693-849>
ISBN 978-0-472-13336-9 hard ¥14,014.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

Focused on structural and political intersectionalities, Gendered Pluralism takes a broader approach to understanding the constellation of factors that drive gender and racial differences on an array of public policy issues. Belinda Robnett and Katherine Tate examine a broader set of actors absent the contextual factors that may drive them to compromise their opinions. Their study examines the ways in which (1) men and women differ on public policy issues and the factors that drive these differences; (2) whites and racial-ethnic minorities differ on public policy issues and the factors that drive these differences; (3) women differ on public policy issues and the factors that drive these differences; (4) African-American men and women differ on public policy issues and the factors that drive these differences, and (5) African-American women differ on public policy issues and the factors that drive these differences.

Chowdhury, Romit, City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport. 218 pp. 2023:8 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <693-370>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2951-0 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-2950-3 paper ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

In South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How do men experience gender in city spaces? What are the interactional dynamics between different groups of men on city streets? How do men adjudicate between good and bad conduct in urban spaces? Through ethnographic descriptions of copresence on public transport in Kolkata, India, this book brings into sight the gendered logics of cooperation and everyday morality through which masculinities take up space in cities. It follows the labor geographies of auto-rickshaw and taxi operators and their interactions with traffic police and commuters to argue that the gendered fabric of urban life needs to be understood as a product of situational forms of cooperation between different social groups. Such an orientation sheds light on the part played by everyday morality and provisional support in upholding male privilege in the city.

Friedman, Asia, Mammography Wars: Analyzing Attention in Cultural and Medical Disputes. (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series) 286 pp. 2023:6 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <693-422>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3064-6 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-3063-9 paper ¥9,259.- (税込) US$ 42.95 *

Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with national health care organizations supporting conflicting guidelines. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman examines cultural and medical disagreements over mammography. At issue is whether to screen women under age fifty, which is rooted in deeper questions about early detection and the assumed linear and progressive development of breast cancer. Based on interviews with doctors and scientists, interviews with women ages 40 to 50, and newspaper coverage of mammography, Friedman uses the sociology of attention to map the cognitive structure of the "mammography wars," offering insights into the entrenched nature of debates over mammography that often get missed when applying a medical lens. Friedman's analysis also suggests the sociology of attention's unique potential for analyzing cultural conflicts beyond mammography, and even beyond medicine.

Pieri, Mara, LGBTQ+ People with Chronic Illness: Chroniqueers in Southern Europe. 161 pp. 2023:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-433>
ISBN 978-3-031-22070-8 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Drawing on theory and empirical research, this book provides an analysis of the intersections between LGBTQ+ identification and chronic illness. Chapters focus on the theoretical meaning of chronic illness as a queer notion, as well as the lived experiences of chronically ill LGBTQ+ people. The author analyzes chronic illness as an experience that interrogates the normative notions of time, (in)visibility, and disability. Interweaving notions of heteronormativity and able-bodiedness as interwoven and mutually dependent, this book argues that the experience of chronic illness through LGBTQ+ embodiment presents the potential to imagine bodies differently.This book will be useful for scholars and students in Disability Studies, Queer Studies, and Gender Studies.

Sangaramoorthy, Thurka, She's Positive: The Extraordinary Lives of Black Women Living with HIV. 256 pp. 2023:4 (Aevo UTP, CN) <693-435>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4332-7 hard ¥7,966.- (税込) US$ 36.95

Despite the profound impact that HIV has had on Black life, the stories of African American women and their relationship with HIV have been systematically neglected. Even during unprecedented and challenging times, such as the global COVID-19 pandemic and social reckoning over racial injustice, the world has failed to notice the overlapping crises unfolding in Black communities in the United States. She's Positive reveals the often-invisible burden of racism and disease by featuring the voices of Black women who experience it every day. Using a combination of personal stories and photography, Thurka Sangaramoorthy centers African American women's voices and journeys of finding meaning and community in the face of persistent violence and trauma. The book includes ethnographic research, oral history interviews, and portraits with numerous women in the Washington, D.C., area over eight years, showing how the afterlife of an epidemic still intimately and publicly shapes Black women's lives. It reveals how the prevailing history of AIDS is embedded in white supremacy, erasing the disease's continued and devastating impact on Black communities. Presenting a firsthand perspective on Black women's significant contributions to the cultural history of AIDS, She's Positive highlights the radical moments of care, love, and determination that enable the afterlives of Black women living with HIV.

Liddy, Susan (ed.), Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries: Falling off a Cliff? 284 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-447>
ISBN 978-3-031-18384-3 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores the challenges facing women from their mid-forties as they attempt to build/maintain careers in the screen industries. Essays are concerned with the intersection of gender and age on screen and behind the camera and how that can create a 'double jeopardy'. Existing research in this area has been primarily directed to onscreen representation. Female actors, with notable exceptions, struggle to get screen time and expansive roles as they age. Behind the camera, women 45+ also face challenges and roadblocks; to date, less attention has been directed to this group. The cross-cultural research in this collection offers an analysis of representation, on and off screen, touching on film, television, streaming services and film festivals. It includes an exploration of gendered ageism, age bias and stereotyping. It also highlights the achievements of mature female practitioners who, in their work and working lives, embody a resistance to restrictive cultural discourses about ageing women.

Roberto, Rose / Alexiou, Artemis (eds.), Women in Print 1: Design and Identities. (Printing History and Culture 2) 304 pp. 2022:11 (P. Lang, SZ) <693-5>
ISBN 978-1-78997-978-7 paper ¥17,728.- (税込) SFR 71.00

Women in Print is a collection of essays in two related volumes which considers the diversity of roles occupied by women in the design, authorship, production, distribution and consumption of printed material from the thirteenth century onwards. 　 Women in Print I: Design and Identities demonstrates women’s multi-layered contribution to design, printing and publishing history through eleven case studies of women artists, compositors, editors, engravers, photographers, printers, publishers, scribes, stationers, typesetters, widows in business, and writers. It offers an examination of women as active participants and contributors in the many and varied aspects of design and print culture, including the production of illustrations, typefaces, periodical layouts, photographic prints and bound volumes. 　 Women have often participated in design and print culture throughout history, yet their impact has typically been neglected and undervalued, or deliberately obscured from historical accounts. This collection of essays covers, and recovers, the lives and work of women in print, emphasizing how their contributions brought positive change not only to the industries they contributed to, but also to the wider social and cultural settings of their time.

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Brake, Deborah L. / Chamallas, Martha et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States. (Oxford Handbooks) 712 pp. 2023:5 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <693-586>
ISBN 978-0-19-751999-8 hard ¥40,964.- (税込) US$ 190.00 *

Combining analyses of feminist legal theory, legal doctrine, and feminist social movements, The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States offers a comprehensive overview of U.S. legal feminism. Contributions by leading feminist thinkers trace the impacts of legal feminism on legal claims and defenses and demonstrate how feminism has altered and transformed understandings of basic legal concepts, from sexual harassment and gender equity in sports to new conceptions of consent and motherhood. Its chapters connect legal feminism to adjacent intellectual discourses, such as masculinities theory and queer theory, and scrutinize criticisms and backlash to feminism from all sides of the political spectrum. Its examination of the prominent brands of feminist legal theory shows the links and divergences among feminist scholars, highlighting the continued relevance of established theories (liberal, dominance, and relational feminism) and the increased importance of new intersectional, sex-positive, and postmodern approaches. Unique in its triple focus on theory, doctrine, and social movements, the Handbook recounts the history of activist struggles to pass the Equal Right Amendment, the Anti-Rape and Battered Movements of the 1970s, the contemporary movements for reproductive justice and against campus sexual assault, as well as the #MeToo movement. The emphasis on theory and feminist practice animates discussions of feminist legal pedagogy and feminist influences on judges and judicial decision making. Chapters on emerging areas of law ripe for feminist analysis explore foundational subjects such as contracts, tax, and tort law, and imagine feminist and social justice approaches to digital privacy and intellectual property law, environmental law, and immigration law. The Handbook provides a broad picture of the intellectual landscape and allows both new and established scholars to gain an in-depth understanding of the full range of feminist influence on U.S. law.

Nielsen, Marianne O. / Jarratt-Snider, Karen (eds.), Indigenous Justice and Gender. (Indigenous Justice) 277 pp. 2023:5 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <693-1421>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4969-6 paper ¥5,659.- (税込) US$ 26.25 *

Siegl, Veronika, Intimate Strangers: Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth. 300 pp. 2023:7 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <693-1426>
ISBN 978-1-5017-6991-7 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-7131-6 paper ¥7,750.- (税込) US$ 35.95 *

Zooming in on commercial surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine, Intimate Strangers addresses market expansion into the intimate spheres of life that play out on women's bodies as mothers and workers. Veronika Siegl follows the inner workings of a surrogacy market marked by secrecy, distrust, and anonymous business relationships. She explores intended mothers' anxious struggles for a child in light of stigmatized infertility and the aggressive biopolitics of motherhood; the uncertain but pragmatic pathways in and out of fertility clinics as surrogates navigate harsh economic realities and resist being objectified or morally judged; and the powerful role of agents and doctors who have found a profitable niche in nurturing and facilitating other people's existential hopes. Intimate Strangers discusses these issues against the backdrop of ultra-conservatism and moral governance in Russia, the rising international popularity of the Ukrainian surrogacy market, and the pervasiveness of neo-liberal ideologies and individualized notions of reproductive freedom.

Davis, Adrianne Musu, Black and Smart: How Black High-Achieving Women Experience College. (The American Campus) 174 pp. 2023:5 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <693-1448>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3238-1 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-3237-4 paper ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

Even academically talented students face challenges in college. For high-achieving Black women, their racial, gender, and academic identities intensify those issues. Inside the classroom, they are spotlighted and feel forced to be representatives for their identity groups. In campus life, they are isolated and face microaggressions from peers. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework, Davis addresses the significance of the various identities of high-achieving Black women in college individually and collectively, revealing the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions and in social interactions on and off campus. Based on interviews with collegiate Black women in honors communities, Black and Smart analyzes the experiences of academically talented Black undergraduate women navigating their social and academic lives at urban historically white institutions and offers strategies for creating more inclusive academic and social environments for talented undergraduates.

Barba, Lloyd D. / Johnson, Andrea Shan / Ramirez, D. (eds.), Oneness Pentecostalism: Race, Gender, and Culture. (Studies in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements) 282 pp. 2023:2 (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) <693-145>
ISBN 978-0-271-09454-0 hard ¥24,783.- (税込) US$ 114.95 *

This volume traces the history of Oneness Pentecostalism in North America. It maps the major ideas, arguments, periodization, and historical figures; corrects long-standing misinterpretations; and draws attention to how race and gender impacted the growth and trajectories of this movement. Oneness Pentecostalism emerged in the aftermath of the Azusa Street Revival (1906-9), baptizing its members in the name of Jesus Christ rather than the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and splintering from trinitarian Pentecostals. With its rapid growth throughout the twentieth century, especially among ethnic minorities, Oneness Pentecostalism assumed a diversity of theological, ethnic, and cultural expressions. This book reckons with the multiculturalism of the movement over the course of the twentieth century. While common interpretations tend to emphasize the restorationist impulse of Oneness Pentecostalism, leading to notions of a static, unchanging movement, the contributors to this work demonstrate that the movement is much more fluid and that the interpretation of its history and theology should be grounded in the variegated North American contexts in which Oneness Pentecostalism has taken root and dynamically developed.Groundbreaking and interdisciplinary, this volume presents diverse perspectives on a significant religious movement whose modern origins are embedded within the larger Pentecostal story. It will be welcomed by religious studies scholars and by practitioners of Oneness Pentecostalism.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Daniel Chiquete, Dara Coleby Delgado, Patricia Fortuny-Loret de Mola, Manuel Gaxiola, David Reed, Rosa Sailes, and Daniel Segraves.

Jordan-Zachery, Julia S. / Alhassan, Shamara Wyllie (eds.), Black Women and da 'Rona: Community, Consciousness, and Ethics of Care. (The Feminist Wire Books) 304 pp. 2023:4 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <693-1466>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4853-8 paper ¥4,947.- (税込) US$ 22.95 *

Carlacio, Jami L. (ed.), Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies) 277 pp. 2023:8 (U. Pr. Mississippi, US) <693-150>
ISBN 978-1-4968-4567-2 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4968-4568-9 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Contributions by Janet Allured, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Jami L. Carlacio, Cheryl J. Fish, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Neely McLaughlin, Darcy Metcalfe, Phillip Luke Sinitiere, P. Jane Splawn, Laura L. Sullivan, and Hettie V. WilliamsActivism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present recognizes and celebrates twelve Black feminists who have made an indelible mark not just on Black women's intellectual history but on American intellectual history in general. The volume includes essays on Jarena Lee, Theressa Hoover, Pauli Murray, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, to name a few. These women's commitment to the social, political, and economic well-being of oppressed people in the United States shaped their work in the public sphere, which took the form of preaching, writing, singing, marching, presiding over religious institutions, teaching, assuming leadership roles in the civil rights movement, and creating politically subversive print and digital art. This anthology offers readers exemplars with whose minds and spirits we can engage, from whose ideas we can learn, and upon whose social justice work we can build.The volume joins a burgeoning chorus of texts that calls attention to the creativity of Black women who galvanized their readers, listeners, and fellow activists to seek justice for the oppressed. Pushing back on centuries of institutionalized injustices that have relegated Black women to the sidelines, the work of these Black feminist public intellectuals reflects both Christian gospel ethics and non-Christian religious traditions that celebrate the wholeness of Black people.

Caspari, Peter / Dill, Helga / Caspari, Cornelia et al., At Some Point There Has to Be Peace and Quiet!: Institutional Struggle to Working through the Past of Sexual Violence and Abuse of Power at an Institute for Analytical Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. 237 pp. 2023:2 (Springer, GW) <693-1510>
ISBN 978-3-658-39784-5 paper ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99

The book provides - for the first time in the German-speaking world - a comprehensive scientific contribution to the reappraisal of sexualized violence in a psychotherapy institute. The qualitative case study takes a look at decades of abuse of power and sexualized violence by the director of an analytical institute for children and young people. It shows that the psychotherapists involved in this system do not live up to central ideas and concepts of their profession: Silence, denial, rationalization, rejection of responsibility, and ignorance of those affected have for a long time prevented the uncovering of the acts and sustainable forms of coming to terms with them. The life of the institute is characterized by a dialectical tension between the necessity of processing and the desire for undisturbed functioning. This dynamic also proves to be analogous to the problem-solving patterns of psychotherapeutic patients. The case points to fundamental problems in the fieldof psychotherapy, which are primarily related to a structural power imbalance and pronounced dependency relationships both in the context of training and in the treatment setting. The findings of this empirical study are used to derive professional and organizational ethical considerations and - based on these - to formulate concrete recommendations for the prevention of sexualized violence in psychotherapy institutes.

Colvin, Kelly Ricciardi, Charm Offensive: Commodifying Femininity in Postwar France. 264 pp. 2023:6 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <693-1512>
ISBN 978-1-4875-0836-4 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-2582-8 paper ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the French government cultivated images of sensual and sophisticated white French women in an attempt to reestablish its global image as a great nation. They promoted the beauty, sexual appeal, and general allure of French women, all while shrinking the boundaries of what was considered beautiful. Charm Offensive explores how this elevation of French femininity created problems on both sides of the equation: the pressure on French women to conform to an exacting physical standard was immense, while the inability of anyone else to access that standard resulted in a sense of failure. Drawing on cultural figures like Air France hostesses, tourism workers, and celebrities such as Brigitte Bardot, Charm Offensive offers an innovative understanding of a tumultuous time of decolonization.

Ergun, Emek, Virgin Crossing Borders: Feminist Resistance and Solidarity in Translation. (Transformations: Womanist, Feminist, and Indigenous Studies) 278 pp. 2023:4 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <693-1518>
ISBN 978-0-252-04493-9 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08708-0 paper ¥6,036.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

The Turkish-language release of Hanne Blank's Virgin: The Untouched History is a politically engaged translation aimed at disrupting Turkey's heteropatriarchal virginity codes. In Virgin Crossing Borders, Emek Ergun maps how she crafted her rendering of the text and draws on her experience and the book's impact to investigate the interventionist power of feminist translation. Ergun's comparative framework reveals translation's potential to facilitate cross-border flows of feminist theories, empower feminist interventions, connect feminist activists across differences and divides, and forge transnational feminist solidarities. As she considers hopeful and woeful pictures of border crossings, Ergun invites readers to revise their views of translation's role in transnational feminism and examine their own potential as ethically and politically responsible agents willing to search for new meanings. Sophisticated and compelling, Virgin Crossing Borders reveals translation's vital role in exchanges of feminist theories, stories, and knowledge.

Fattmann, Rainer / Wiede, Wiebke / Wolf, Johanna (Hrsg.), Gender Pay Gap: Vom Wert und Unwert von Arbeit in Geschichte und Gegenwat. (Politik- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte 113) 220 S. 2023:4 (Dietz Nachf., GW) <693-1519>
ISBN 978-3-8012-4258-9 paper ¥7,532.- (税込) EUR 32.00 *

Der Gender Pay Gap ist ein vielschichtiges historisches Phaenomen. Es ist verknuepft mit ungleichen Bewertungen von Arbeit auf den Arbeitsmaerkten, mit Geschlechterbildern, die sich im Zeitverlauf nur langsam wandeln, und einer ungleichen Verteilung von Haus-, Sorge- und Erwerbsarbeit. Die Autorinnen zeichnen die Bedingungen der ungleichen Bezahlung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven exemplarisch nach. In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland verdienten Frauen im Jahr 2021 pro Arbeitsstunde etwa 18 Prozent weniger als Maenner. Der Abstand in der Entlohnung wird seit Langem politisch und wissenschaftlich diskutiert. Dennoch verringert sich die Ungleichheit nur langsam. Existenz und Dauerhaftigkeit des Phaenomens sind allerdings laenderuebergreifend. Der Band fragt aus der Perspektive von Geschichtswissenschaft, Soziologie, Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften nach historischen und gegenwaertigen Auspraegungen und Ursachen des Gender Pay Gaps.

Field, Russell, A Night at the Gardens: Class, Gender, and Respectability in 1930s Toronto. 224 pp. 2023:4 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <693-1520>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4702-8 hard ¥14,014.- (税込) US$ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-4708-0 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

When Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens opened in 1931, manager Conn Smythe envisioned an arena that would project an aura of middle-class respectability. In A Night at the Gardens, Russell Field shares how this new arena anticipated spectators by examining varying spectator behaviours, who the spectators were, and what the experience of spectating was like. Drawing on archival records, the book explores the neighbourhood in which Maple Leaf Gardens was situated, the design of the arena's interior spaces, and the ways in which the venue was operated in order to appeal to respectable spectators at a particular intersection of class and gender. Oral history interviews with former spectators at Maple Leaf Gardens detail the experience of watching the spectacle that unfolded on the ice during each hockey game. A Night at the Gardens tells the fascinating story of how one prominent public building became such an important part of Toronto society.

Fredette, Allison Dorothy (ed.), Heartsick and Astonished: Divorce in Civil War-Era West Virginia. (New Perspectives on the Civil War Era Series) 277 pp. 2023:5 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <693-1521>
ISBN 978-0-8203-6427-8 hard ¥24,783.- (税込) US$ 114.95 *
ISBN 978-0-8203-6428-5 paper ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

Heartsick and Astonished features twenty-seven divorce cases from mid-nineteenth century America. More than dry legal documents, these cases provide a captivating window into marital life-and strife-in the border South during the tumultuous years before, during, and after the Civil War. Allison Dorothy Fredette has brought these primary documents to light, revealing the inner thoughts, legal hardships, and day-to-day struggles of these average citizens. In Wheeling, West Virginia, the seat of Ohio County, courtrooms bore witness to men and women from various ethnic, racial, and class backgrounds who shared shockingly intimate details of their lives and relationships. Some tried desperately to defend their masculinity or femininity; others hoped to restore their reputations to the legal system and to their community. In an era of uncertainty-when the country was torn in two, when the Wheeling community became the capital of a new state, and when activists across the country began to push for women's rights in the household and family-the divorce cases of ordinary couples reveal changing attitudes toward marriage, gender, and legal separation in a booming border city perched on the edge of the South.

Jones, Tiffany, Euphorias in Gender, Sex and Sexuality Variations: Positive Experiences. 190 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-1528>
ISBN 978-3-031-23755-3 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This Open Access book uses the concept of 'euphoria' to investigate when, why and how marginal gender, sex and sexuality groups have positive experiences of their diverse variations even within repressive and disordering contexts. Drawing on data from multiple online surveys including a study of 2,407 LGBTQ+ people and a study of 272 people with intersex variations, it names and offers a new ecological framework for understanding participants' influences on and barriers to euphorias, asserting the subversive possibilities of being euphorically queer, as opposed to euphoric and queer. The author argues that it is the particularities of negative internal, socio-cultural and institutional contexts for a marginal group or groups that contributes towards the possibilities that shape their potential euphoric feelings and experiences. Ultimately, she calls for a more expansive focus in gender and sexuality studies to show the complex effects of dysphoria and repression on the possibilities of pleasure and joy.This book will be of interest to scholars across Gender, Sexuality and Queer Studies.

Linge, Ina, Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing. (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany) 240 pp. 2023:5 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <693-1535>
ISBN 978-0-472-13306-2 hard ¥15,092.- (税込) US$ 70.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-03931-9 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

This book brings together an exciting new archive of queer and trans voices from the history of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. A new language to express possibilities of gender and sexuality emerged at the turn of the twentieth century, from Sigmund Freud's theories of homosexuality in Vienna to Magnus Hirschfeld's "third sex" in Berlin. Together, they provided a language of sex and sexuality that is still recognizable today. Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing shows that individual voices of trans and queer writers had a significant impact on the production of knowledge about gender and sexuality during this time and introduces lesser known texts to a new readership. It shows the remarkable power of queer life writing in imagining and creating the possibilities of a livable life in the face of restrictive legal, medical, and social frameworks.Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about LGBTQ+ history and literature. It also provides a fascinating insight into the historical roots for our thinking about gender and sexuality today. The book will be of relevance to an academic readership of students and faculty in German studies, literary studies, European history, and the interdisciplinary fields of gender and sexuality studies, medical humanities, and the history of sexuality.

Mattson, Greggor, Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places. 448 pp. 2023:5 (Redwood Pr., US) <693-1536>
ISBN 978-1-5036-2920-2 hard ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond that, rampant gentrification in big cities has pushed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip. Who Needs Gay Bars? considers these narratives, accepting that the answer for some might be: maybe nobody. And yet... Jarred by the closing of his favorite local watering hole in Cleveland, Ohio, Greggor Mattson embarks on a journey across the country to paint a much more complex picture of the cultural significance of these spaces, inside "big four" gay cities, but also beyond them. No longer the only places for their patrons to socialize openly, Mattson finds in them instead a continuously evolving symbol; a physical place for feeling and challenging the beating pulse of sexual progress. From the historical archives of Seattle's Garden of Allah, to the outpost bars in Texas, Missouri or Florida that serve as community hubs for queer youth-these are places of celebration, where the next drag superstar from Alaska or Oklahoma may be discovered. They are also fraught grounds for confronting the racial and gender politics within and without the LGBTQ+ community. The question that frames this story is not asking whether these spaces are needed, but for whom, earnestly exploring the diversity of folks and purposes they serve today. Loosely informed by the Damron Guide, the so-called "Green Book" of gay travel, Mattson logged 10,000 miles on the road to all corners of the United States. His destinations are sometimes thriving, sometimes struggling, but all offering intimate views of the wide range of gay experience in America: POC, white, trans, cis; past, present, and future.

古代地中海における女性
Middleton, Guy D., Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World: From the Palaeolithic to the Byzantines. 275 pp. 2023:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <693-1537>
ISBN 978-1-108-48113-7 hard ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-1-108-70383-3 paper ¥6,549.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

In this book, Guy D. Middleton explores the fascinating lives of thirty real women of the ancient Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the Byzantine era. They include queens and aristocrats, such as the Pharoah Hatshepsut and the Etruscan noblewoman Seianti; Eritha and Karpathia, Bronze Age priestesses from the Aegean; a Pompeiian prostitute called Eutychis; the pagan philosopher Hypatia and the Christian saint Perpetua, from North Africa, as well as women from smaller communities. Middleton uses a wide range of archaeological and historical evidence, including burials and funerary practices, graffiti, inscriptions and painted pottery, handprints, human remains and a variety of historical texts, as well as the latest modern research. His volume weaves together the stories of real women, placing them firmly in the spotlight of history. Engagingly written and up-to-date in its scholarship, Middleton's book offers new insights for students and researchers in Ancient History, Archaeology and Mediterranean Studies, as well as in Women's History.

Rasool, Shahana (ed.), Gendering and Sexualities. 125 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <693-1544>
ISBN 978-3-031-21405-9 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This text features selected chapters from The International Conference on Gender and Sexuality (G&S) and aims to explore, highlight, reflect on, engage with, develop and lead on issues pertaining to G&S. This book challenges and re-imagines historical assumptions and constructions of gendering and sexualities. How they manifest in people's lives and communities are critical to explore and understand. This book appeals to students and researchers in the field. Previously published in Gender Issues Volume 38, issue 3, September 2021Chapter "These Women are Making a Statement Against Rape and yet the only Thing Y'All can Focus on is 'Eww They're Naked'": Exploring Rape Culture on Facebook in South Africa is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Ray, Meredith K. / Westerwater, Lynn Lara (eds.), Gendering the Renaissance: Text and Context in Early Modern Italy. 304 pp. 2023:4 (U. Delaware Pr., US) <693-1545>
ISBN 978-1-64453-305-5 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-64453-304-8 paper ¥10,337.- (税込) US$ 47.95 *

The essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have often been elided in the historical record, the essays also remind us to ask what might obscure our view of texts and archives, what has remained marginal in the texts and contexts of early modern Italy and why. The contributors, suggesting new ways of interrogating gendered discourses of genre, identities, and sanctity, offer a complex picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture. Read in dialogue with one another, their pieces provide a fascinating survey of currents in gender studies and early modern Italian studies and point to exciting future directions in these fields.

Rottmann, Andrea, Queer Lives across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970. (German and European Studies 50) 256 pp. 2023:6 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <693-1547>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4780-6 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s. Andrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces - including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons - facilitated and restricted queer lives in the overwhelmingly conservative climate that characterized both German postwar states. With a theoretical toolkit informed by feminist, queer, and spatial theories, the book goes beyond previous histories that focus on state surveillance and the persecution of male homosexuality.

Seal, Samantha / Nolan Sidhu, Nicole (eds.), Feminist Intersectionality: Centering the Margins in 21st-Century Medieval Studies. 250 pp. 2023:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-1550>
ISBN 978-3-031-22115-6 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book gathers contributions negotiating feminism's place within medieval studies. It is about overlaps and twists, about the inseparability of multiple means of critique - ecocriticism and disability studies, art history and race studies, legal history and modern activism - from a feminist perspective. The feminist scholarship in this book moves in many different directions and examines the medieval past (and its role in the present) from many different angles. What remains consistent throughout is the dedication to reconfiguring medieval studies, a commitment not to be content simply with adding women on as an extra in conventional European patriarchal accounts, or with analyzing gender in history or literature without fundamentally re-envisioning the intellectual foundations upon which those fields of study have been built.Previously published in postmedieval Volume 10, issue 3, September 2019

Jennings, Mark, Happy: LGBTQ+ Experiences of Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. (Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies) 298 pp. 2023:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-165>
ISBN 978-3-031-20143-1 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book relates the unique experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) people in Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Christian churches. Grounded in the theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Lewis Coser, and others, the book exposes the discursive 'battleground' over the 'truth' of sex which underlies the participants' stories. These rich and complex narratives reveal the stakes of this conflict, manifested in 'the line' - a barrier restricting out LGBTQ+ people from full participation in ministry and service. Although some participants related stories of supportive-if typically conservative-congregations where they felt able to live out an authentic, integrated faith, others found they could only leave their formerly close and supportive communities behind, 'counter-rejecting' the churches and often the faith that they felt had rejected them.

Kao, Grace, My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive Christian Vision for Surrogacy. (Encountering Traditions) 296 pp. 2023:8 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <693-167>
ISBN 978-1-5036-1026-2 hard ¥19,404.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5036-3597-5 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Drawing on her own experience as a surrogate mother, Grace Y. Kao assesses the ethics of surrogacy from a feminist and progressive Christian perspective, concluding that certain kinds of surrogacy arrangements can be morally permissible-and should even be embraced. While the use of assisted reproductive technology has brought joy to countless families, surrogacy remains the most controversial path to parenthood. My Body, Their Baby helps readers sort through objections to this way of bringing children into the world. Candidly reflecting on carrying a baby for her childless friends and informed by the reproductive justice framework developed by women of color activists, Kao highlights the importance of experience in feminist methodology and Christian ethics. She shows what surrogacy is like from the perspective of women becoming pregnant for others, parents who have opted for surrogacy (including queer couples), and the surrogate-born children themselves. Developing a constructive framework of ethical norms and principles to guide the formation of surrogacy relationships, Kao ultimately offers a vision for surrogacy that celebrates the reproductive generosity and solidarity displayed through the sharing of traditionally maternal roles.

Burke, Chesya, Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero. 162 pp. 2023:4 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <693-1333>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2106-4 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-2105-7 paper ¥6,672.- (税込) US$ 30.95 *

First introduced in the pages of X-Men, Storm is probably the most recognized Black female superhero. She is also one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe, with abilities that allow her to control the weather itself. Yet that power is almost always deployed in the service of White characters, and Storm is rarely treated as an authority figure. Hero Me Not offers an in-depth look at this fascinating yet often frustrating character through all her manifestations in comics, animation, and films. Chesya Burke examines the coding of Storm as racially "exotic," an African woman who nonetheless has bright white hair and blue eyes and was portrayed onscreen by biracial actresses Halle Berry and Alexandra Shipp. She shows how Storm, created by White writers and artists, was an amalgam of various Black stereotypes, from the Mammy and the Jezebel to the Magical Negro, resulting in a new stereotype she terms the Negro Spiritual Woman. With chapters focusing on the history, transmedia representation, and racial politics of Storm, Burke offers a very personal account of what it means to be a Black female comics fan searching popular culture for positive images of powerful women who look like you.

Hunter, Aaron / Shearer, Martha (eds.), Women and New Hollywood: Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema. 230 pp. 2023:5 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <693-1345>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2180-4 hard ¥15,727.- (税込) US$ 72.95 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-2179-8 paper ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

The 1970s has often been hailed as a great moment for American film, as a generation of "New Hollywood" directors like Scorsese, Coppola, and Altman offered idiosyncratic visions of what movies could be. Yet the auteurist discourse hailing these directors as the sole authors of their films has obscured the important creative roles women played in the 1970s American film industry. Women and New Hollywood revises our understanding of this important era in American film by examining the contributions that women made not only as directors, but also as screenwriters, editors, actors, producers, and critics. Including essays on film history, film texts, and the decade's film theory and criticism, this collection showcases the rich and varied cinematic products of women's creative labor, as well as the considerable barriers they faced. It considers both women working within and beyond the Hollywood film industry, reconceptualizing New Hollywood by bringing it into dialogue with other American cinemas of the 1970s. By valuing the many forms of creative labor involved in film production, this collection offers exciting alternatives to the auteurist model and new ways of appreciating the themes and aesthetics of 1970s American film.

Kirshner, Lauren, Sex Work in Popular Culture. 304 pp. 2023:7 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <693-1349>
ISBN 978-1-4875-0786-2 hard ¥17,248.- (税込) US$ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-4863-6 paper ¥8,085.- (税込) US$ 37.50 *

Sex Work in Popular Culture delves into provocative movies, TV shows, and documentaries about sex work produced in the last decade - a period of debate and change around the meaning of sex work in North American society. From Oscar-winning films to viral YouTube videos, and from indie documentaries to hit series - many of which are made by women - the book reveals how sex work is being recognized as real work and an issue of human rights. Lauren Kirshner shares how popular culture has responded by producing the dynamic new figure of a sex worker who challenges tropes and promotes understanding of the key issues shaping sex work. The book draws on labour and feminist theory, film history, current news, and popular culture, all within the context of neoliberal capitalism and the rise of transactional intimate labour. Kirshner takes us from erotic dance clubs to porn sets, illuminating the professional lives of erotic dancers, massage parlour workers, webcam models, call girls, sex surrogates, and porn performers. Probing how progressive popular culture challenges stereotypes, Sex Work in Popular Culture tells the story of sex work as labour and how the screen can show us the world's oldest profession in a new light.

Bauer, Heike / Greenbaum, Andrea / Lightman, Sarah (eds.), Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders. 296 pp. 2023:3 (Syracuse U. Pr., US) <693-1329>
ISBN 978-0-8156-3771-4 hard ¥19,404.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8156-3781-3 paper ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

In this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women's comics to explore the representation of Jewish women's bodies and bodily experience in pictorial narratives. Spanning national, cultural, and artistic borders, the essays shine a light on the significant contributions of Jewish women to comics.The volume includes major figures such as Miriam Katin, Emil Ferris, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Rutu Modan alongside works by artists translated for the first time into English, such as the Georgian Nino Biniashvili and the Haredi artist Batsheva Havlin. Exploring topics such as family, motherhood, miscarriages, queerness, gender and Judaism, illness, war, and the lingering impact of the Holocaust, the contributors present unique, at times deeply personal, insights into how Jewishness intersects with other forms of identity and identification. In doing so, the volume deepens our understanding of Jewish women's experiences.

Branchu, Charlotte, Tackling Stereotype: Corporeal Reflexivity and Politics of Play in Women's Rugby. (New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures) 206 pp. 2023:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-1312>
ISBN 978-3-031-16790-4 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book presents a critical rethinking of assumptions that have informed our understanding of women's engagement in contact sport, based on an in-depth ethnography with an English rugby team. Looking at the day-to-day concerns of women who play rugby, this work provides a refreshing perspective on different ways of doing femininities in postfeminist times. Women's rugby is one of the world's fastest growing sports, yet it is also a physical game that is traditionally the preserve of men. Tackling Stereotypes reveals the cultural and symbolic stigma that 'sticks' to women's rugby players and the tactics they use to carve out space for themselves and fight for legitimacy. It also argues that players engage in pragmatic politics, informed by their participation, that aims to enact realistic change. Branchu develops a situational sociology that furthers debates in the understanding of gender, belonging, becoming, embodiment, resistance politics, and the sociological study of sport.

Broch, Trygve B., The Ponytail: Icon, Movement, and the Modern (Sports)Woman. (Cultural Sociology) 230 pp. 2023:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-1313>
ISBN 978-3-031-20779-2 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-20782-2 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book adopts a cultural sociology of materiality to explore the hallmark of the female athlete: the ponytail. Studying a wealth of news articles about ponytails in sports and society, Broch uncovers this hairstyle's polyvocality and argues that it is a total social phenomenon. By separating his approach from the cultural studies tradition, Broch highlights how hair is imbued with codes, narratives, and myth that allow its wearers to understand, maneuver, and criticize social gender relations in deeply personal ways. Using multiple theories about hair, bodies, myths, and icons, he creates a multidimensional method to show how icons are imitated and used. As women navigate their practical lives, health issues, and gendered expectations, the ponytail materializes their dynamic maneuvering of cultural and social environments. Sporting a ponytail-itself an embodiment of movement-is filled with a performativity of social movements: a cultural kinetics that is never apolitical.

Berta, Peter (ed.), Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change. (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts) 254 pp. 2023:3 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <693-1304>
ISBN 978-1-9788-2283-2 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-2282-5 paper ¥10,337.- (税込) US$ 47.95 *

Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic, and other desires, needs, and constraints. The authors convincingly demonstrate that a nuanced investigation of the reasons, complex dynamics, and consequences of arranged marriages offers a refreshing analytical lens that can significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of other phenomena such as globalization, modernization, and international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women.

Hamacher, Sophie / Hankey, Jessica (ed.), Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance. 208 pp. 2023:4 (MIT Pr., US) <693-1305>
ISBN 978-0-262-04781-4 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Johnson, Katherine M., Undoing Motherhood: Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity. (Families in Focus) 204 pp. 2023:4 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <693-1307>
ISBN 978-1-9788-0868-3 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-0867-6 paper ¥6,241.- (税込) US$ 28.95 *

In 1978 the world's first "test-tube baby" was born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), effectively ushering in a paradigm shift for infertility treatment that relied on partially disembodied human reproduction. Beyond IVF, the ability to extract, fertilize, and store reproductive cells outside of the human body has created new opportunities for family building, but also prompted new conflicts about rights to and control over reproductive cells. In collaborative forms of reproduction that build on IVF technologies, such as egg and embryo donation and gestational surrogacy, multiple women may variously contribute to conception, gestation/birth, and the legal and social responsibilities for rearing a child, creating intentionally fragmented maternities. Undoing Motherhood examines the implications of such fragmented maternities in the post-IVF reproductive era for generating maternity uncertainty-an increasing cultural ambiguity about what does and should constitute maternity. Undoing Motherhood explores this uncertainty in the social worlds of reproductive medicine and law.

Aavik, Kadri, Contesting Anthropocentric Masculinities Through Veganism: Lived Experiences of Vegan Men. 265 pp. 2023:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-1293>
ISBN 978-3-031-19506-8 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book explores the potential of men's veganism to contest unsustainable anthropocentric masculinities. Examining what it means to be a vegan man and connections between men, masculinities and veganism, it addresses exploitative human-animal relations, climate change, and social inequalities as urgent and interconnected global issues. Using conceptual insights from critical studies on men and masculinities, ecofeminism, critical animal studies and vegan studies, this book examines the potential of men's veganism and vegan masculinities to foster more ethical, caring and sustainable ways of relating to nonhuman animals and to contribute towards more egalitarian gender relations. This book is grounded in a qualitative empirical study of the lived experiences of 61 vegan men in Northern Europe. The themes explored include men's transition to veganism, the emotional and embodied dimensions of men's veganism, negotiating social and intimate relationships as vegan men, and links between men's veganism, gender equality and social justice.

Attai, Nikoli A., Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean. (Critical Caribbean Studies) 224 pp. 2023:7 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <693-1167>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3036-3 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-3035-6 paper ¥8,181.- (税込) US$ 37.95 *

In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights activists strategically located within and outside of the region have dominated interventions seeking to address issues affecting people across the region; a trend that is premised on an idea that the Caribbean is extremely homophobic and transphobic, resulting in violence and death for people who defy dominant sexual and gender boundaries. Human rights activists continue to utilize international financial and political resources to influence these interventions and the region's engagement on issues of homophobia, transphobia, discrimination, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This focus, however, elides the deeply complex nature of queerness across different spaces and places, and fails to fully account for the nuances of queer sexual and gender politics and community making across the Caribbean. Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean problematizes the neocolonial and homoimperial nature of queer human rights activism in in four Anglophone Caribbean nations -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago -- and thinks critically about the limits of human rights as a tool for seeking queer liberation. It also offers critical insight into the ways that queer people negotiate, resist, and disrupt homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination by mobilizing "on the ground" and creating transgressive communities within the region.

Whitehouse, Bruce, Enduring Polygamy: Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis. (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts) 246 pp. 2023:4 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <693-1163>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3114-8 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-3113-1 paper ¥9,259.- (税込) US$ 42.95 *

Why hasn't polygamous marriage died out in African cities, as experts once expected it would? Enduring Polygamy considers this question in one of Africa's fastest-growing cities: Bamako, the capital of Mali, where one in four wives is in a polygamous marriage. Using polygamy as a lens through which to survey sweeping changes in urban life, it offers ethnographic and demographic insights into the customs, gender norms and hierarchies, kinship structures, and laws affecting marriage, and situates polygamy within structures of inequality that shape marital options, especially for young Malian women. Through an approach of cultural relativism, the book offers an open-minded but unflinching perspective on a contested form of marriage. Without shying away from questions of patriarchy and women's oppression, it presents polygamy from the everyday vantage points of Bamako residents themselves, allowing readers to make informed judgments about it and to appreciate the full spectrum of human cultural diversity.

Zinger, Oded, Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt. (Jewish Culture and Contexts) 272 pp. 2023:1 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <693-1144>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2379-0 hard ¥12,925.- (税込) US$ 59.95 *

Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000-1250), relating medieval gossip, marital woes, and the voices of men and women of a world long gone. Probing the rich documents of the Cairo Geniza, a unique repository of discarded paper discovered in a Cairo synagogue, the book recovers the life stories of Jewish women and men working through their marital problems at home, with their families, in the streets of old Cairo, and in Jewish and Muslim courts. Despite a voluminous literature on Jewish law, the everyday practice of Jewish courts has only recently begun to be investigated systematically. The experiences of those at a legal, social, and cultural disadvantage allow us to go beyond the image propagated by legal institutions and offer a view "from below" of Jewish communal life and Jewish law as it was lived. Examining the interactions between gender and law in medieval Jewish communities under Islamic rule, Oded Zinger considers how women experienced Jewish courts and the pressure they faced to relinquish their monetary rights. The tactics with which women countered this pressure-ranging from exploiting family ties to appealing to Muslim courts-expose the complex relationship between individual agency, gendered expectations, and communal authority. Zinger concludes that, more than money, education, or lineage, it was the maintenance of a supportive network of social relations with men that protected women at different stages of their lives.

女性と気候変動
Detraz, Nicole, Women and Climate Change: Examining Discourses from the Global North. 288 pp. 2023:2 (MIT Pr., US) <693-1210>
ISBN 978-0-262-54207-4 paper ¥8,624.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

Harcourt, Wendy / Agostino, A. / Elmhirst, R. et al. (eds.), Contours of Feminist Political Ecology. (Gender, Development and Social Change) 245 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-1214>
ISBN 978-3-031-20927-7 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-20930-7 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the field. As Professor Lyla Mehta says in her Foreword, the book is "foregrounding multiple ways of knowing and being, thus enabling new conceptions of politics, justice and alternatives to dominant, capitalist development trajectories". In an innovative methodological twist, the edited book engages the reader in conversations that have emerged from the multi-sited and cross-generational dialogues of the Well-Being Ecology Gender cOmmunities (WEGO) network over the last four years. The conversations explore topics that range from climate change and extractivism, to body politics and health, degrowth, care and community well-being. The authors reflect on their collective learning process as they map out the new directions of FPE research and analysis. The chapters highlight WEGO transnational/transdisciplinary conversations with local communities, social movements and different academic spaces. The book foregrounds the ethics of doing feminist work inside and outside academe and brings to life the importance of doing reflexive research aware of situated historical and contemporary geographical contours of power.