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

Chikovore, Emma Shuvai / Sooryamoorthy, R., Family Influence on Adolescent Sexual Behaviour in South Africa. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 240 pp. 2024:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <718-729>
ISBN 978-3-031-50376-4 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book explores the connection between family structure and circumstances, parental engagement, and adolescent sexual behavior. Given that South Africa contains the highest portion of the global HIV epidemic within a single country, a comprehensive, book-length investigation into-sometimes risky-adolescent sexual behaviour is necessary. Drawing from the longitudinal Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS) of more than 4,000 adolescents between the ages of fourteen and twenty-two, as well as qualitative interviews and focus group discussions with parents and adolescents, this study pioneers empirical investigation of adolescent sexual behavior within the intricate framework of family dynamics in South Africa.

Wallace, Cynthia R., The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion. (Gender, Theory, and Religion) 312 pp. 2024:4 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <718-74>
ISBN 978-0-231-21418-6 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-21419-3 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909-1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death and the posthumous publication of her writings. She has also provoked an extraordinary range of literary writing focused on not only her ideas but also her person: novels, nonfiction, and especially poetry. Given the challenges of Weil's ethic of self-emptying attention, what accounts for her appeal, especially among women writers?This book tells the story of some of Weil's most dedicated-and at points surprising-literary conversation partners, exploring why writers with varied political and religious commitments have found her thought and life so resonant. Cynthia R. Wallace considers authors who have devoted decades of attention to Weil, such as Adrienne Rich, Annie Dillard, and Mary Gordon, and who have written poetic sequences or book-length verse biographies of Weil, including Maggie Helwig, Stephanie Strickland, Kate Daniels, Sarah Klassen, Anne Carson, and Lorri Neilsen Glenn. She illuminates how writing to, of, and in the tradition of Weil has helped these writers grapple with the linked harms and possibilities of religious belief, self-giving attention, and the kind of moral seriousness required by the ethical and political crises of late modernity. The first book to trace Weil's influence on Anglophone literature, The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil provides new ways to understand Weil's legacy and why her provocative wisdom continues to challenge and inspire writers and readers.

Greene, Theodore, Not in My Gayborhood: Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen. 320 pp. 2024:7 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <718-806>
ISBN 978-0-231-18988-0 hard ¥31,416.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-18989-7 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

Gay neighborhoods are disappearing-or so the conventional story goes. In this narrative, political gains and mainstream social acceptance, combined with the popularity of dating apps like Grindr, have reduced the need for LGBTQ+ people to seek refuges or build expressly queer places. Yet even though residential patterns have shifted, traditionally gay neighborhoods remain centers of queer public life.Exploring "gayborhoods" in Washington, DC, Theodore Greene investigates how neighborhoods retain their cultural identities even as their inhabitants change. He argues that the success and survival of gay neighborhoods have always depended on participation from nonresidents in the life of the community, which he terms "vicarious citizenship." Vicarious citizens are diverse self-identified community members, sometimes former or displaced locals, who make symbolic claims to the neighborhood. They defend their vision of community by temporarily reviving the traditions and cultures associated with the gay neighborhood and challenging the presence of straight families and other newcomers, the displacement of local institutions, or the taming of sexual culture. Greene pays careful attention to the significance of race and racism, highlighting the important role of Black LGBTQ+ culture in shaping gay neighborhoods past and present. Examining the diverse placemaking strategies that queer people deploy to foster and preserve LGBTQ+ geographies, Not in My Gayborhood illuminates different ways of imagining urban neighborhoods and communities.

Brunning, Luke, Romantic Agency: Loving Well in Modern Life. 200 pp. 2024:5 (Polity Pr., UK) <718-813>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5152-1 hard ¥14,573.- (税込) US$ 64.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-5153-8 paper ¥5,149.- (税込) US$ 22.95

This is a book for people energized by the possibilities of modern intimacy, but who feel unsure about their own romantic lives. Alternative lifestyles such as nonmonogamy, while liberating in theory, can feel remote in practice, as we are fixed in place by insecurities and social pressures.In Romantic Agency, philosopher Luke Brunning encourages readers to think more deeply about what it means for relationships to not only work, but flourish. Guided by the thought that our abilities to be intimate cannot be taken for granted, he argues that our romantic agency is fragile and best cultivated alongside that of others, and can be nurtured through relevant traits and practices. Realism protects us from seductive but unworkable romantic ideals, conversation tempers our individualism, playfulness helps us look beyond rivalry, integrity allows us to risk change, and compersion lets us overcome jealousy. The potential rewards are more meaningful than any traditionalist or utopian could imagine.Compelling and timely, Romantic Agency is a groundbreaking exploration of love and relationships.

Hiergeist, Teresa / Schaefer, Stefanie (eds.), Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture. (Gender Studies) 300 S. 2024:3 (Transcript, GW) <718-838>
ISBN 978-3-8376-6955-8 paper ¥9,724.- (税込) EUR 40.00

In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage - but how can they be read? How do films, comics, and TV series depict the newly fashionable gunwomen, between objectification and feminist empowerment? The contributors to this volume from cultural studies, history and art history examine military memoirs and civic gun cultures, the rediscovery of historical armed women and revolutionaries, cultural phenomena such as gangsta rap, narcocultura and US politics, Bollywood and French cinema, and distinct genres such as the graphic novel, the romance novel or the German police procedural Tatort.

Tomsett, Ellie / Weidhase, Nathalie / Wilde, Poppy (eds.), Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism. (Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender) 331 pp. 2024:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <718-853>
ISBN 978-3-031-49575-5 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Working Women on Screen: Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism critically examines screen media representations of women's participation in the contemporary labour market. The edited collection brings together contributions on Aesthetic Labour; Power, Politics, and Neoliberal Industries; and Sex, Sexuality, and Relationships.Within the context of fourth wave feminism, there has been a new proliferation in the global media landscape of representations of women's paid labour. This has coincided with the development of critical and ideological issues surrounding intersectionality and culture wars, as well as the impacts of recessions, political upheavals, and pandemics. Workplace dynamics and post-#MeToo politics have led to the complexification of structures, oppressions and relationships that impact what women can do for money. As a result, the "working woman" is now a constant presence on our screens, though articulated in widely divergent ways. The chapters within this collection critique issues that are deeply embedded in neoliberal conceptions of contemporary feminism, such as aspects of "lean-in" culture, structural oppression, and women's experiences of the "glass ceiling" and "glass cliff".The volume as a whole will analyse representations related to the intersecting dynamics of gender, race, class, sexuality, and disability in television, film, social media and video games. It will be key reading for students and scholars in media, gender, and cultural studies.

近世における死とジェンダー
Fernandez, Enrique / Abreu-Ferreira, Darlene (eds.), Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period. (Death in History, Culture, and Society 2) 228 pp. 2024:5 (Brill, NE) <718-906>
ISBN 978-90-04-24445-0 hard ¥26,741.- (税込) EUR 110.00

In premodern Europe, the gender identity of those waiting for Doomsday in their tombs could be reaffirmed, readjusted, or even neutralized. Testimonies of this renegotiation of gender at the encounter with death is detectable in wills, letters envisioning oneself as dead, literary narratives, provisions for burial and memorialization, the laws for the disposal of those executed for heinous crimes and the treatment of human remains as relics.

E.デイヴィスとヴィクトリア朝中期の女性運動
Hendry, John, Emily Davies and the Mid-Victorian Women's Movement. 336 pp. 2024:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <718-909>
ISBN 978-0-19-891023-7 hard ¥10,087.- (税込) GB￡ 35.00

Emily Davies was a central figure in the mid-Victorian women's movement. Formidably intelligent, fiercely determined, and an indefatigable campaigner and organiser, the socially and politically conservative Davies directed the first campaign for female suffrage in 1866-7. She was one of the first women elected to public office in 1870, campaigned successfully for the admission of girls to school leaving examinations, played a significant part in the reform of girls' secondary school provision, and established Girton College, Cambridge, Britain's first university-level college for women. This book combines the first scholarly biography of Davies with a radically new account of the mid-Victorian women's movement. From the late 1850s to the mid-1870s and through the life, work, and writing of Davies, the book traces the growth, influence, and division of the movement, including its institutional origins; its social, political, religious and intellectual allegiances; and its relation to other major social and intellectual developments. Drawing on Davies' published correspondence and a range of unused archival sources, the book explores the overlapping contexts that enabled the growth of the movement and the diverse motivations that brought women into it but then led them to pursue quite different paths. As the movement developed, these interacted with political differences, strategic disagreements, and personality clashes to split the movement into separate strands, all sharing the same broad objectives but with different practical foci. This is the story of how a group of exceptional women, Emily Davies at their centre, challenged conventional ideas and created new opportunities for women. Situated in its broader social, cultural, and intellectual contexts, it will appeal to all those interested in Victorian social history, the history of feminism, and the history of education.

Jung, Jae-Hee / Tavits, Margit, Counter-Stereotypes and Attitudes Toward Gender and LGBTQ Equality. (Elements in Gender and Politics) 75 pp. 2024:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <718-911>
ISBN 978-1-00-946265-5 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-00-940665-9 paper ¥4,899.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

Insights from social psychology and the gender and politics literature, as well as discussions and campaigns in the policymaking world, suggest that exposure to counter-stereotypes about gender roles might improve people's attitudes toward gender equality and LGBTQ rights. The authors test this expectation by conducting five survey experiments (N=6,916) and a separate, follow-up experiment (N=3,600) in the US context using counter-stereotypical treatments commonly encountered in the real world. They examine both political and non-political attitudes, manipulate stereotypes about both men and women, and provide visual as well as textual stimuli. The treatments undermined stereotypes about the gender roles depicted in the counter-stereotypical exemplars. However, they failed to alter respondents' generic core beliefs about women and men and increase equitable attitudes. The results improve our understanding of how stereotypes contribute to gender and anti-LGBTQ bias.

O'Connor, Pat, A 'Proper' Woman? One Woman's Story of Success and Failure in Academia. (Reimagining Ireland 126) 238 pp. 2023:12 (P. Lang, SZ) <718-914>
ISBN 978-1-80374-305-9 paper ¥9,609.- (税込) SFR 39.00

≪A fascinating, well-paced, beautifully written memoir.≫ (Professor Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Author and Director, MA in Creative Writing, University of Limerick, Ireland) ≪A wonderfully honest, often witty, personal account from someone who experienced discrimination -and challenged it - at every level of academia. So much of what has changed for women in recent decades is chronicled through Pat’s life, research and actions. A tour de force.≫ (Micheline Sheehy Skeffington, plant ecologist and feminist activist) ≪This book evokes the lived experience of a woman who, out of her time, marshalled the brains, the courage and--I have to say it--the sheer bloody-minded and tireless determination to confront others with one question: ‘why?’. Asking the question came at no small personal cost, but--slowly and surely--it started to prise open some of the seemingly impenetrable male-centric power edifices that exist across academia; openings which now give so many others hope. Don’t be afraid of reading this book about the lifetime of someone who asked why, it may just inspire you to do the same.≫ (Paul Walton, Professor of Chemistry, University of York, UK and international gender equality advocate) This book, written by an insider, explores experiences over a 46-year career in five academic organisations in Ireland and the UK: moving from contract research assistant to full professor and line manager (Dean). Highlighting success and failure, strength and fragility, it challenges ideas about what it is to be a ‘proper' woman. It describes the subtle and relentless processes of devaluation, marginalisation and disempowerment that are often ‘normalised.’ Written in a clear accessible style, with flashes of humour, it asks whose interests are served by taken-for-granted ideas about what it is to be a woman ? ideas which deny the reality of many women’s day-to-day experiences. Who wants us to think that all women find identity and satisfaction in housework and child care? Who wants us to think that universities are meritocratic institutions? The book will inspire and entertain all those who have struggled in any male-dominated organisation and wondered if they were the problem.

Ruan, Nian, Women Scholars in Hong Kong: In Pursuit of Intellectual Leadership. 211 pp. 2024:1 (Springer, GW) <718-917>
ISBN 978-981-9983-76-6 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book depicts the diverse approaches of established women professors in perceiving and developing intellectual leadership in Hong Kong. It analyzes the combined influences of various disciplines, different higher education institutions, and gender on the careers of female scholars in the East Asian region. The complexity and interaction of academic careers for women, disciplinary contexts, higher education systems, and socio-cultural environments may present a relatively holistic landscape for readers interested in academic life and leadership. Scholars, administrators, managers, and policymakers in higher education-related fields may gain comprehensive ideas to facilitate faculty and institutional development through a cultural and sociological lens. This may empower female academics and students, while also providing benefits for doctoral students and early-career researchers seeking insights into the evolving advantages and disadvantages in women's academic careers. Audiences interested in gender issues may find it intriguing to compare women scholars with women in other professions and in different cultural contexts.

Slowe, Lucy Diggs, Her Truth and Service: Lucy Diggs Slowe in Her Own Words. Ed. by A. Y. Quarkume. 240 pp. 2024:3 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <718-920>
ISBN 978-0-231-21212-0 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-0-231-21213-7 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885-1937) was one of the most remarkable and accomplished figures in the history of Black women's higher education. She was a builder of institutions, organizing the first historically Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, while a student at Howard University in 1908; establishing the first junior high school for Black students in Washington, D.C.; and founding as well as leading other major national and community organizations. In 1922 Slowe was appointed the first Dean of Women at Howard, making her the first Black woman to serve as dean at any American university. Beyond her trailblazing career in higher education, she was a committed teacher, an ardent antiracist advocate, and even a national tennis champion.Her Truth and Service showcases Slowe's speeches, articles, and letters, illuminating her multifaceted accomplishments and unwavering dedication to the quest for equality and justice. In these texts, readers encounter Slowe's powerful voice and keen intellect, witnessing her triumphs and travails as an educator, a leader, and a Black woman in a deeply exclusionary society. Slowe's writings depict her personal and professional efforts to topple race and gender barriers and open up greater opportunities for Black women and girls, as well as the obstacles she faced in male-dominated institutions including the Howard administration. Her Truth and Service is an important document of a significant figure in the development of Black institutions and an inspiring testament to the lifelong struggle for social justice.

van Voorst, Roanne, Six in a Bed: The Future of Love - from Sex Dolls and Avatars to Polyamory. 344 pp. 2024:4 (Polity Pr., UK) <718-922>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5842-1 hard ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Love is the most important and intense experience of one's life. It pushes us to elation, to heartbreak, to sing for joy and sob in disappointment. Connecting in this way to others is an essential quality of being human: without love, we don't learn and develop properly as children and we don't flourish as adults - in short, we're starved of what we need. But love is on the verge of monumental change. Not only is the impact of AI and robotics set to revolutionise how we relate to each other, but sex robots are already on the market, drugs are being developed which can make you fall in love, polyamory is gaining ground and debates about whether more than two people should be able legally to get married are heating up. At the same time, there is an increasing number of people who have decided to stay single and who go by the name of sologamists. The futures anthropologist Roanne van Voorst spent three years researching love's fluid landscape and immersing herself in today's latest trends to gain insight into the human of tomorrow. She cultivated a virtual friendship, hired a rentable friend and an erotic masseuse, shared a bed with sex dolls and flirted with artificial intelligence. She dated and danced in a virtual world, spoke to polyamorists, sologamists, sex workers, pansexuals, asexuals, heterosexuals, homosexuals, men, women, and people who don't accept the binary gender label. She wanted to know how changes to love are changing our species. This book is her brilliantly engaging answer.

Weiss, Suzannah, Subjectified: Becoming a Sexual Subject. 280 pp. 2024:5 (Polity Pr., UK) <718-924>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6018-9 hard ¥15,695.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-6019-6 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Subjectified is a book about subjects, objects, and verbs. It is also a book about clothing-optional resorts, masturbation circles, and sex parties. Suzannah Weiss takes the reader through her adventures as a sex and relationship writer to explore how we can create a world with less objectification and more subjectification - placing women and other marginalized groups in the subject role of sentences and actions. Offering a deeply personal critique of sexual empowerment movements, Weiss presents a way forward that focuses on what women desire, not what men desire from them. Subjectified calls for women everywhere to inhabit their bodies and hearts - to look through their own eyes and speak as "I." The book is for everybody wanting to understand themselves as subjects. Wholeheartedly, the author invites you to follow her search for subjecthood and, should you desire, forge your own path out of objecthood.

Chappell, Sophie Grace, Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World. 256 pp. 2024:4 (Polity Pr., UK) <718-45>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6150-6 hard ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

I was four and three quarters when I asked my mother if, from now on, I could please go to school as a girl instead of as a boy...'In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Sophie Grace Chappell combines personal memoir, philosophical reflection, open letters, science fiction writing, and poetry to help us all figure out transgender.What is it really like to be transgender?What can we as a society do better to accept the reality of trans lives and to welcome and include trans adults, trans children, and trans families?How can trans people thrive in a cisgendered world?For too long now, clouds of myth, misinformation, alarmism, and wrong-headed ideology have masked the reality of trans people's lives. By answering questions like these, this book blows away the clouds and gives us the truth instead.Rich, informative, and deeply moving, Trans Figured will be widely read and celebrated for years to come.

Leeb, Claudia, Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach. (New Directions in Critical Theory 88) 320 pp. 2024:4 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <718-555>
ISBN 978-0-231-21306-6 hard ¥31,416.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-21307-3 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by supporting the far right? In this timely book, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminates how economic and psychological factors interact to produce this extreme political shift.Contesting the Far Right examines right-wing recruitment tactics in the United States and Austria, where people discontented with the status quo have turned to far-right parties and movements that further cement capitalism's adverse effects. Leeb contends that Freudian psychoanalytic theory and early Frankfurt School Critical Theory provide analytical tools to explain this apparent contradiction in psychological terms. Living under precarity capitalism generates feelings of failure and anxiety, which people experience as non-wholeness, because it has become difficult if not impossible to live up to the fetish of economic, interpersonal, and bodily success, and the far right preys on such feelings. Its psychologically oriented propaganda tactics produce the illusion of wholeness and a positive sense of self while leaving the socioeconomic conditions that cause people's suffering intact. At the same time, they remove the inhibitions that keep people's repressed aggression and racist and sexist attitudes in check. To demonstrate the workings of this process, Leeb compares cases including Trump and the alt-right in the United States and the Freedom Party and the identitarian movement in Austria. At once theoretically rich and politically engaged, this book also offers ways to resist the far right and counter the psychological appeal of its propaganda techniques.

Rai, Shirin M., Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring. 288 pp. 2024:5 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <718-559>
ISBN 978-0-19-753554-7 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-777772-5 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95

When thinking about the work of caring for others we often neglect the human cost born by those performing this care. Feminists have long talked about the ways in which unpaid work, particularly performed in the home, is habitually undervalued by society; but the work of caring for people, both paid and unpaid, can also take a toll on the health of individuals, households, and communities when we give more than we receive. This lopsided gap between outflows and inflows, as this book argues, is depletion. In Depletion, Shirin M. Rai examines the human costs of care work and how these are reproduced across the boundaries of class, race, gender, and generation. Depletion can be physical, as measured by the body mass index, exhaustion, sleeplessness, and vital health signs. It can also be mental, manifesting as self-doubt, guilt and apprehension, and the failure to take time for oneself, family, friends, and community. Moreover, depletion has effects that extend well beyond the individual, to households and communities. Including case studies from different parts of the world and building on various methodologies, Rai looks at the costs of care work, or what she calls "social reproduction" in several forms: biological reproduction, unpaid work in the home, and cultural and ideological work necessary to maintain social relations beyond the household. Various chapters examine the costs of commuting to work and for care, the value of unpaid work performed by women of different classes, the costs of household work performed by children, and the costs to communities when local economies are challenged by corporate interests. Lastly, Rai argues that depletion must be recognized in order for it to be reversed--the struggles to reverse depletion are struggles for a good life, generative of new imaginings of how care work, both draining and joyful, can be reorganized for a better future for all.

Kristeva, Julia, Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death: or Language Haunted by Sex. Tr. by A. K. Mortimer. (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) 344 pp. 2023:12 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <718-61>
ISBN 978-0-231-21050-8 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00
ISBN 978-0-231-21051-5 paper ¥5,834.- (税込) US$ 26.00 *

Julia Kristeva has been both attracted and repelled by Dostoyevsky since her youth. In this extraordinary book, by turns poetic and intensely personal, she brings her unique critical sensibility to bear on the tormented and visionary Russian author.Kristeva ranges widely across Dostoyevsky's novels and his journalism, plunging deep into the great works-and many of the smaller ones-to investigate her fascination with the Russian author. What emerges is a luminous vision of the writer's achievements, seen in a wholly new way through Kristeva's distinctive perspective on language. With her keen psychoanalytical eye, she offers brilliant insights into the passionate heroines of the great novels. Focusing on Dostoyevsky's polyphonic writing, Kristeva also demonstrates the importance of Orthodox Christianity throughout his body of work, analyzing the complex ways his carnivalesque theology informs his fiction and commentary.An original and profound interpretation of one of the nineteenth century's greatest writers, this book's insights are also relevant to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries-up to our unsettled present, to which Kristeva's humane reading of the suffering Russian author brings understanding and even solace.

地中海における女性と国境
Schmoll, Camille, Women and Borders in the Mediterranean: The Wretched of the Sea. (Mobility & Politics) 179 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <718-616>
ISBN 978-3-031-45096-9 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book offers a history of migration in the Mediterranean written about and from the perspective of women. It gives a complex picture of individual journeys of migrant women, and in a radical departure from the miserabilist or culturalist approach through which women are usually viewed, the book argues for a politically and socially aware, activist feminism that is attuned to what border-obsessed migration policies actually do to women.The research presented in this book is based on multi-sited fieldwork that led the author to closely follow migration survivors. The book depicts the journey of women as they experience brutal separations, have to make heart-wrenching decisions and end up wandering from one place to another, but also as they make acquaintances and find new opportunities. The first-person accounts collected here demonstrate that the reasons behind these women's decision to leave are anything but simple and linear: they combine various forms of persecution and oppression, a desire for autonomy and a yearning for new horizons, as well as changes in gender relations in their countries of origin.The book further explores the daily lives of women in reception centres, where they are in limbo, their journey as if "suspended," as they wait for this Europe rejecting them to acknowledge their presence. These women live on and "in" the border - a border that relentlessly haunts them and pursues them everywhere they go. Boredom is constant and, likewise, racism and marginalisation processes are pervasive. At the same time, this study shows that these women are also resisting, strategising, taking charge of their own destinies and journeys, and looking for a way out.Written from the standpoint of a geographer, this study accordingly puts the space of everyday life front and centre. Such a space acts as an impediment to these women's journeys: it generates a "moralscape" of waiting, which plays a key role in these women's daily lives. However, it can also help these women gain greater autonomy, thus empowering them, and it may be subverted through various tactics and stratagems, which sometimes take the form of spatialised strategies.

フェミニストの平和を統治する
Shepherd, Laura / Kirby, Paul C., Governing the Feminist Peace: The Vitality and Failure of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda. (Columbia Studies in International Order and Politics) 408 pp. 2024:4 (Columbia U. Pr., US) <718-640>
ISBN 978-0-231-20512-2 hard ¥31,416.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-0-231-20513-9 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

The Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda is celebrated as a landmark global framework for achieving gender equality in peace and security governance. Its power is visible in two decades of United Nations resolutions, national action plans, regional initiatives, and countless activist, academic, and philanthropic projects. Yet despite this vitality, it is haunted by failure, as a lack of political will and stubborn patriarchal resistance frustrate its promise.This book offers a groundbreaking critical account of the WPS agenda, exploring its evolution in relation to the wider politics of global governance and feminism. Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd argue that WPS is not a settled, cohesive policy but a field in flux, defined and disrupted by a growing number of national, supranational, subnational, and transnational agents who in turn act on an expanding catalogue of threats, from climate change to homophobia, challenging traditional boundaries of peace and security. Kirby and Shepherd reconceptualize WPS as a "policy ecosystem," tracing interaction and contestation around the agenda across levels from the UN Security Council to military alliances to feminist activists. They combine analysis of a vast dataset of policy documents with key informant interviews and close readings of diplomacy, statecraft, the politics of indigeneity, counterinsurgency, antimilitarism, human rights, and the arms trade across the first twenty years of WPS. Far-reaching and incisive, Governing the Feminist Peace poses a provocative question: What if we abandoned the idea of the WPS agenda as a unified political project altogether?

オルタナティブ・ファイナンスにおける女性
Battaglia, Francesca / Giusi Gaeta, Emanuela, Women in Alternative Finance: Exploring the Benefits of Equity Crowdfunding. 105 pp. 2024:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <718-215>
ISBN 978-3-031-43466-2 hard ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book focuses on equity crowdfunding in order to shed light on female entrepreneurship. Global awareness of gender inequality has resulted in international efforts to alleviate disparities and promote women's growth. This book draws academics, policymakers, and practitioners' attention to equity crowdfunding as a good environment for female entrepreneurs to overcome gender gaps and establish a more inclusive and fair financial landscape. While women are often found to be at a disadvantage when compared to male counterparts in traditional credit markets, the book's our empirical evidence suggests that this is not the case for alternative funding channels such as crowdfunding. The book's distinguishing feature is its emphasis on the equity crowdfunding market, which could be viewed as the ideal environment for developing and growing female entrepreneurial skills. From this perspective, the book provides a clear recommendation to policymakers on how to support women in alternative finance, by providing more specific and detailed rules and action plans focusing on this topic.

Eger, Hannah, Feminist Global Health Policy: Addressing Health Inequalities through an Intersectional Perspective. (BestMasters) 115 pp. 2024:1 (Springer VS, GW) <718-275>
ISBN 978-3-658-43496-0 paper ¥17,013.- (税込) EUR 69.99

Health inequalities, primarily driven by the structural determinants of health, are a major concern towards the global goal of health for all. A feminist global health policy has the potential to address the unequal distribution of power and to dismantle these imbalances. The prioritisation of intersectional, holistic, human rights-based approaches intends to advance health equality and reproductive justice. This research examined the contours and potentials of a feminist global health policy by developing a framework. Online focus groups were conducted with participants affiliated to either the global-academic or local-activist level, envisaging global representation. The elaborated framework provides a nexus between the global and the local level, by entailing universal principles as well as recommendations and sensitivity for context-specific adaptations. Community and policymakers are identified as key actors. This research aims to stimulate a debate on feminist global health policy and the potential of this framework with regard to health equality and reproductive justice.

Hartung, Heike / Maierhofer, Roberta et al. (eds.), Masculinities Ageing between Cultures: Relationality, Kinship and Care in Dialogue. (Aging Studies 21) 280 S. 2023:8 (Transcript, GW) <718-287>
ISBN 978-3-8376-6906-0 paper ¥8,508.- (税込) EUR 35.00

Global mobility is one of the crucial phenomena of our time. Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies, the contributors to this volume examine the intersection of cultural exchange, gender and age, exploring ageing masculinities with reference to the key concepts of relationality, kinship and care. The essays analyze transcultural experiences of ageing men from Europe, relationships including the Indian diaspora in the US, Chinese father images in the US-American context and Black British queer kinship, drawing its examples also from Brazilian society and African European contexts.

Otero Quezada, Edith / Ullrich, Vanessa Lara (eds.), Marx's Others: Bodies, Affects and Experience. (Experiencing Gender 3) 120 S. 2024:6 (Transcript, GW) <718-100>
ISBN 978-3-8376-6835-3 paper ¥7,049.- (税込) EUR 29.00

While there is renewed interest in Marx, we cannot simply apply his nearly 200-year-old texts to today's world. Capitalism, after all, has not only taken on new shapes, from the climate crisis, mass incarceration to global migration; it has also intensified its exploitation of racialised and feminised workers, while finding new ways of co-opting them. Across the disciplinary boundaries of philosophy, literary and cultural studies, this volume revives Marx's rich conceptual apparatus to shed light on his Black, feminist, trans and queer ≫others≪ in order to understand race and gender as part of the capitalist totality, and to strike more fundamentally at the heart of contemporary capitalism.

Alipour, Mehrdad, Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam: A Legal-hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shi'i Discourse. (Studies in Islamic Law and Society 55) 370 pp. 2024:6 (Brill, NE) <718-121>
ISBN 978-90-04-69705-8 hard ¥22,851.- (税込) EUR 94.00

To enrich the existing debates on Islam and sexual diversity, in the present book, I seek the potential discursive spaces on homosexuality in modern Imami legal debates. I have undertaken this research on the thesis that modern Imami legal tradition on homosexuality is more flexible and dynamic than one might expect. To address this essential issue, I build the study around the following constructive question: what are the discursive spaces on homosexuality in contemporary reflections within modern Shi?i legal scholarship? Responding to this central query, the study is premised on the notion that Imami legal sources consist of a tradition of sacred (textual) sources, intellectual reasoning, a vast stockpile of (often contrasting) interpretations of these sources, and a distinguished methodological repertoire called ijtihad. Following the same methodology, in this work, I describe, analyse, and critique such textual-exegetical and intellectual-rational discursive aspects concerning homosexuality.

Boudreaux, JoAnna, Islam and Motherhood: Discourses of Faith and Identity. (Studies in Communication, Culture, Race, and Religion 5) 108 pp. 2023:12 (P. Lang, SZ) <718-126>
ISBN 978-1-4331-9923-3 paper ¥10,348.- (税込) SFR 42.00

How do U.S. American Muslim mothers describe and discuss their identities as mothers, wives, and Muslims? How do they conceptualize their relationships with their children, husbands, and other family members? Often, discussions of motherhood within the mainstream Muslim community do not center on actual mothers’ perspectives. This study, undertaken by a Muslim woman researcher, foregrounds the lived experiences of Muslim mothers to explore their communicative experiences of identity. The findings of this study are based on interviews with nine U.S.-based Muslim women who shared detailed thoughts about what Islamic scripture says about motherhood, the role of culture, the rights and obligations of different family members, and details about their day-to-day lives. Hecht’s Communication Theory of Identity (CTI) framework ? a flexible and useful method for understanding the relationship between ideology, identity, and personal agency ? is used to identify core themes. Further, this study explores contradictions, incongruences, an disruptions between how respondents may enact (or perform) "motherhood" and their own personal feelings. Engaging and accessible, this book will be of interest to scholars of communication theory, religious communication, women and gender, and U.S. American Muslim studies, as well as anyone with an interest in the various impacts and influences of overarching intersectional identities.