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

国連の調停における女性、平和、安全保障の政治
Standfield, Catriona, The Politics of Women, Peace, and Security in UN Mediation. 2024:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <720-614>
ISBN 978-1-00-951226-8 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-951228-2 paper ¥7,404.- (税込) GB￡ 25.99 *

This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive analysis of the United Nations' efforts to incorporate the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda into its mediation practices. Based on extensive fieldwork and primary material, the book examines how gendered and racialised ideas about mediation as an 'art' or a 'science' have shaped the UN's approach to WPS. Senior mediators view mediation as an art of managing relationships with mostly male negotiators, meaning that including women can threaten parties' consent to the process. Meanwhile, experts and headquarters units see mediation as a science, resulting in the co-optation of gender expertise and local women to reinforce technical approaches to mediation. This has hindered the WPS agenda's goal of meaningful women's participation in peace processes. This book is an essential read for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners interested in gender, peace, and security.

Holvikivi, Aiko, Fixing Gender: The Paradoxical Politics of Training Peacekeepers. (Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations) 232 pp. 2024:7 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <720-625>
ISBN 978-0-19-777404-5 hard ¥19,404.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *

The practice of "gender training" has gained widespread popularity among numerous professions in the last few decades. Designed to address a range of problems--from corporate advancement, to sexual assault, to economic development--gender training is reliably presented as a solution to gendered disparities. Gender training has even become a requirement for soldiers and police officers deploying overseas as peacekeepers. But what happens when the concept of gender, the analytical purchase of which we owe to feminist activism and scholarship, is taken up by martial institutions shaped by hegemonic masculinity? How is gender training made to work in and for military and police organisations? Is it a normative good from the point of view of intersectional feminist politics? Through an ethnographic study of gender training practices in peacekeeping institutions, Aiko Holvikivi examines how gender is conceptualised, taught, and learned in these settings, and with what political effects. She finds that this training constitutes a deeply ambivalent practice from the point of view of intersectional feminist political commitments. On the one hand, it reinscribes the logic that martial force is an appropriate solution to gendered insecurities, and it affirms attachments to normative heterosexuality. On the other hand, this training simultaneously exposes contradictions that inhere to the logics of martiality, coloniality, and heteronormativity that structure the peacekeeping enterprise. Drawing on queer and postcolonial feminist thought, Fixing Gender examines the contradictory politics of gender training, arguing that we need to develop the analytical tools to grapple with paradoxical practices that are simultaneously good and bad feminist politics.

Zengin, Asli, Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World. 296 pp. 2024:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-706>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2088-2 hard ¥22,627.- (税込) US$ 104.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-2562-7 paper ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

In Violent Intimacies, Asli Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex, gender and sexuality. She shows how cisheteronormativity forms a connective tissue among neoliberal governmentality, biopolitical and necropolitical regimes, nationalist religiosity and authoritarian management of social difference. As much as trans people are shaped by these processes, they also transform them in intimate ways. Transness in Turkey provides an insightful site for developing new perspectives on statecraft, securitization and surveillance, family and kin-making, urban geography, and political life. Zengin offers the concept of violent intimacies to theorize this entangled world of the trans everyday where violence and intimacy are co-constitutive. Violent intimacies emerge from trans people's everyday interactions with the police, religious and medical institutions, street life, family and kinship, and trans femicides and funerals. The dynamic of violent intimacies prompts new understandings of violence and intimacy and the world-making struggles of trans people in a Middle Eastern context.

Ali, Luetfiye, Australian Muslim Women's Borderland Subjectivities: Diverse Identities, Diverse Experiences. 210 pp. 2024:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <720-73>
ISBN 978-3-031-45185-0 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book claims a discursive space in academic scholarship for knowledges and ways of knowing that capture the diversity, complexity and full humanness of Australian Muslim women's subjectivities. It draws on in-depth conversational interviews with 20 Australian Muslim women from various ethnic backgrounds during which the women shared their experiences of being at the crossroads of their religious, gendered, racialised and ethnic identities. The book puts forward a decolonial feminist border methodology by weaving the work of decolonial feminist philosophers Maria Lugones and Gloria Anzaldua with postmodern feminist thinking on subjectivity and with discourse analysis. This methodology is used to centre and attend to the fluidity and plurality of Muslim women's subjectivities, at the intersections of race, ethnicity, patriarchy, gender, sexuality and Islam.

Lavery, Grace, Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom. 128 pp. 2024:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-813>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2589-4 hard ¥19,393.- (税込) US$ 89.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3014-0 paper ¥5,163.- (税込) US$ 23.95 *

From The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Arrested Development to BoJack Horseman, the American sitcom revolves around crises that must be resolved by episode's end, with a new crisis to come next week. In Closures, Grace Lavery reconsiders the genre's seven-decade history as an endless cycle of crisis and closure that formally and representationally frames heterosexuality as constantly on the verge of both collapse and reconstitution. She shows that even the normiest family-based sitcoms rely on queer characters like Alice (The Brady Bunch) and Steve Urkel (Family Matters) who highlight how the family is perpetually incomplete and unstable. Analyzing the genre's techniques and devices such as the laugh track and the cringe pan, Lavery also charts the shift to friend-group and workplace sitcoms like Friends and The Office, which she contends reflect a weakening of social ties in ways that place characters in an unending state of becoming. With this capacious yet svelte queer and trans theorization of the sitcom, Lavery demonstrates that the family ties that bind the genre's normative heterosexuality are far more tenuous than we have been led to believe.

Le Clue, Natalie (ed.), Gender and the Male Character in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives: From Enchanted Heroes to Modern Masculinities. (Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender) 284 pp. 2024:9 (Emerald, UK) <720-814>
ISBN 978-1-83753-789-1 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

From the shady and complicated Rumpelstiltskin to the born-again hero of Captain Hook in Once Upon a Time, as well as films which magnify the male character such as The Huntsman: Winter's War, Tangled, Frozen, and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, the male fairy tale character has received increased attention in fictional narratives over the past decade. For the first time, Gender and the Male Character in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives extends this attention into the realm of academic study. Featuring differing perspectives and disciplines, including gender, queer, fan, and television and film studies, chapters take an interdisciplinary approach to analyse male characters through lenses such as race, disability, class, religion, and sexuality. Contributors unveil alternative conceptualisations of 'traditional' male fairy tale characters, weaving a rich story of the interaction between popular culture, gender representation, power, and society. Putting Prince Charming in the academic spotlight, this collection examines the evolution of male fairy tale characters across modern series and films to bridge a gap that afflicts multiple disciplines.

Palincas, Nona / Martins, Ana Cristina (eds.), Gender and Change in Archaeology: European Studies on the Impact of Gender Research on Archaeology and Wider Society. (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) 330 pp. 2024:4 (Springer, GW) <720-850>
ISBN 978-3-031-52154-6 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

Brewer Ball, Katherine, The Only Way Out: The Racial and Sexual Performance of Escape. 224 pp. 2024:4 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-859>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2604-4 hard ¥22,195.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3027-0 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

In The Only Way Out, Katherine Brewer Ball explores the American fascination with the escape story. Brewer Ball argues that escape is a key site for exploring American conceptions of freedom and constraint. Stories of escape are never told just once but become mythic in their episodic iterations, revealing the fantasies and desires of society, the storyteller, and the listener. While white escape narratives have typically been laden with Enlightenment fantasies of redemption where freedom is available to any individual willing to seize it, Brewer Ball explores how Black and queer escape offer forms of radical possibility. Drawing on Black studies, queer theory, and performance studies, she examines a range of works, from nineteenth-century American literature to contemporary queer of color art and writing by contemporary American artists including Wilmer Wilson IV, Tourmaline, Tony Kushner, Junot Diaz, Glenn Ligon, Toshi Reagon, and Sharon Hayes. Throughout, escape emerges as a story not of individuality but of collectivity and entanglement.

Snaza, Nathan, Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man. 216 pp. 2024:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-884>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2584-9 hard ¥21,549.- (税込) US$ 99.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3010-2 paper ¥5,594.- (税込) US$ 25.95 *

In Tendings, Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular culture's resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into conversation with Black feminist and new materialist thought. Analyzing writing and performances by Maryse Conde, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Starhawk, Christina Sharpe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and others, Snaza introduces his theory of tending as a concept that links ontology, attunement, care, and anticipatory action to explore how worlds persist through everyday acts of participation. In contrast to the universalizing presuppositions of the enlightenment, Snaza shows how certain feminist occult and esoteric practices constitute what he calls an endarkenment that embraces decolonial spiritual knowledge. Highlighting how endarkenment practices challenge universal presumptions and reject the racializing and colonialist mission of enlightenment modernity, Snaza demonstrates the ways esoterism affirms a pluriversal worldview that reimagines what it means to live in a more-than-human world.

Wade, Ashleigh Greene, Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice. 176 pp. 2024:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-889>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2085-1 hard ¥20,471.- (税込) US$ 94.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-2560-3 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

In Black Girl Autopoetics Ashleigh Greene Wade explores how Black girls create representations of themselves in digital culture with the speed and flexibility enabled by smartphones. She analyzes the double bind Black girls face when creating content online: on one hand, their online activity makes them hypervisible, putting them at risk for cyberbullying, harassment, and other forms of violence; on the other hand, Black girls are rarely given credit for their digital inventiveness, rendering them invisible. Wade maps Black girls' everyday digital practices, showing what their digital content reveals about their everyday experiences and how their digital production contributes to a broader archive of Black life. She coins the term Black girl autopoetics to describe how Black girls' self-making creatively reinvents cultural products, spaces, and discourse in digital space. Using ethnographic research into the digital cultural production of adolescent Black girls throughout the United States, Wade draws a complex picture of how Black girls navigate contemporary reality, urging us to listen to Black girls' experience and learn from their techniques of survival.

Demos, Vasilike (Vicky) / Segal, Marcia Texler (eds.), People, Spaces and Places in Gendered Environments. (Advances in Gender Research 34) 220 pp. 2024:6 (Emerald, UK) <720-897>
ISBN 978-1-83797-894-6 hard ¥26,734.- (税込) US$ 124.00 *

Intersectional in approach, this volume of Advances in Gender Research offers an overview of the ways in which environments - broadly defined to include social, natural and built territories, domains and habitats - are gendered. Rooted in qualitative, feminist and change-oriented perspectives, this international set of scholars and practitioners provides an understanding of how marginalized and indigenous populations, often overlooked, relate to natural and built environments. Drawing on real-world interviews, as well as their political and historical contexts, contributors highlight the voices of women and their interactions with their environments. Chapters critically consider the threats, barriers and limitations of urban design to the movements of women, including those with disabilities, covering cases such as: home-based sex work in Punjab citiesworkplace environments and their role in women's career buildingenvironmental activism and citiesAsian American women in STEM disciplinesindigenous change agents in the Amazonchange in built environments, specifically in Athens and Romeagriculture in the Colombian Amazonqueer eco-spirituality Demonstrating how women and other marginalized groups respond to the limits and options imposed by the history and structure of spaces, People, Spaces and Places in Gendered Environments envisions a world beyond colonial, able-bodied, class and patriarchal limitations where freedom of movement functions for all.

高等教育における学生の性的暴力に取り組む　第2版
DiSantis, Clarissa J. / Towl, Graham J., Addressing Student Sexual Violence in Higher Education: A Good Practice Guide. 2nd ed. 324 pp. 2024:9 (Emerald, UK) <720-899>
ISBN 978-1-83797-786-4 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00

Erikson, Josefina / Freidenvall, Lenita (eds.), Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond: Gender, Institutional Constraints and Feminist Strategies. (Gender and Politics) 275 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <720-901>
ISBN 978-3-031-52358-8 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book reflects on the centennial of women's suffrage in the Nordic region and beyond, by exploring its relevance to political gender equality today and the conditions for feminist institutional change. The book brings together historians and political scientists to provide a long-term historical perspective that lays the groundwork for theoretical development. In this regard, the book makes two key contributions: it furthers our understanding of different types of gendered institutional constraints on women's political inclusion and elaborates feminist institutional strategies to counter these constraints.

Heaney, Emma (ed.), Feminism against Cisness. (ASTERISK: Gender, Trans-, and All That Comes After) 280 pp. 2024:5 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-903>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2622-8 hard ¥22,627.- (税込) US$ 104.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3045-4 paper ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

The contributors to Feminism against Cisness showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness: the fallacy that assigned sex determines sexed experience. The essays demonstrate that this fallacy hinges on the enforcement of white and bourgeois standards of gender comportment that naturalize brutalizing race and class hierarchies. It is, therefore, no accident that the social processes making cisness compulsory are also implicated in anti-Blackness, misogyny, Indigenous erasure, xenophobia, and bourgeois antipathy for working-class life. Working from trans historical archives and materialist trans feminist theories, this volume demonstrates the violent work that cis ideology has done and thinks toward a future for feminism beyond this ideology's counterrevolutionary pull. Contributors. Cameron Awkward-Rich, Marquis Bey, Kay Gabriel, Jules Gill-Peterson, Emma Heaney, Margaux L. Kristjansson, Greta LaFleur, Grace Lavery, Durba Mitra, Beans Velocci, Joanna Wuest

Lesis, Sian, Mind the Gender Gap: A Mobilities Perspective of Sexual Harassment on the London Underground. (Feminist Developments in Violence and Abuse) 236 pp. 2024:9 (Emerald, UK) <720-907>
ISBN 978-1-83753-029-8 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Drawing on women's lived experiences, Mind the Gender Gap offers an original approach to looking at sexual harassment on public transport in the UK, uncovering both the social and spatial factors that affect the perpetration of and reactions to sexual harassment on the London Underground. Examining sexual harassment on transport beyond limited analyses which lack discernment from 'public space' or a focus on rates of reporting, Sian Lewis introduces a novel conceptual framework built around the concepts of space, mobilities, rhythm and temporalities to reveal a new perspective at the intersection of mobility and feminist research on gendered violence. Honouring the multifaceted and nuanced experiences of sexual harassment by demonstrating how women anticipate, experience, react to and remember these incidents, Lewis attests that sexual harassment happens in a unique way in this often-neglected dimension of public space. How are these incidents located within gendered experiences in the city? How are acts of sexual harassment perpetrated? What key features define experiences of sexual harassment on public transport? How do these incidents impact women's mobilities over time? Written in the wake of the #MeToo movement, the Weinstein scandal, the global women's marches on Trump's inauguration day and a subsequent shift in public awareness and discourse, Mind the Gender Gap compliments, challenges and furthers our understanding of sexual harassment in public spaces.

McTighe, Laura, Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South. 352 pp. 2024:3 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-908>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2080-6 hard ¥23,705.- (税込) US$ 109.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-2554-2 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

For thirty-five years, the New Orleans-based Black feminist collective Women With A Vision (WWAV) has fought for the liberation of their communities through reproductive justice, harm reduction, abolition feminism, racial justice, and sex workers' rights. In 2012, shortly after one of WWAV's biggest organizing victories, arsonists firebombed and destroyed their headquarters. Fire Dreams is an innovative collaboration between WWAV and Laura McTighe, who work in community to build a social movement ethnography of the organization's post-arson rebirth. Rooting WWAV in the geography of the South and the living history of generations of Black feminist thinkers, McTighe and WWAV weave together stories from their founders' pioneering work during the Black HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s and their groundbreaking organizing to end criminalization in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina---with other movements for liberation as accomplices. Together, the authors refuse the logics of racial capitalism and share WWAV's own world-building knowledges, as well as their methods for living these Black feminist futures now. Fire Dreams is a vital toolkit for grassroots organizers, activist-scholars, and all those who dream to make the world otherwise.

Weiss, Margot (ed.), Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures. 344 pp. 2024:5 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-918>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2615-0 hard ¥23,705.- (税込) US$ 109.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3038-6 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

This field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways queer critique can reorient and transform anthropology. Consisting of fourteen original essays by both distinguished and new voices, Unsettling Queer Anthropology advances a vision of queer anthropology grounded in decolonial, abolitionist, Black feminist, transnational, postcolonial, Indigenous, and queer of color approaches. Critically assessing both anthropology's queer innovations and its colonialist legacies, contributors highlight decades of work in queer anthropology; challenge the boundaries of anthropology's traditional methodologies, forms, and objects of study; and forge a critical, queer of color, decolonizing queer anthropology that unsettles anthropology's normative epistemologies. At a moment of revitalized calls to reckon with the white supremacist and settler colonial logics that continue to shape anthropology, this volume advances an anthropology accountable to the vitality of queer and trans life. Contributors. Jafari Sinclair Allen, Tom Boellstorff, Erin L. Durban, Elijah Adiv Edelman, Lyndon K. Gill, K. Marshall Green, Brian A. Horton, Nikki Lane, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Shaka McGlotten, Scott L. Morgensen, Kwame Otu, Juno Salazar Parrenas, Lucinda Ramberg, Sima Shakhsari, Savannah Shange, Anne Spice, Margot Weiss, Ara Wilson

Allum, Felia, Women of the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra. 288 pp. 2024:7 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <720-455>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7479-9 hard ¥9,044.- (税込) US$ 41.95 *

Women of the Mafia dives into the Neapolitan criminal underworld of the Camorra as seen and lived by the women who inhabit it. It tells their life stories and unpacks the gender dynamics by examining their participation as active agents in the organization as leaders, managers, foot soldiers, and enablers. Felia Allum shows that these women are true partners in crime. The author offers an innovative interdisciplinary analysis that demystifies the notion that the Camorra is a sexist, male-centric organization. She links her analysis of Camorra culture within the wider Neapolitan context to show how mothers and women act and are treated in the private sphere of the household and how the family helps explain the power women have found in the Neapolitan Camorra. It is civil society and law enforcement agencies that continue to see the Camorra using traditional gender assumptions which render women irrelevant and lacking independent agency in the criminal underworld. In Women of the Mafia, Allum debunks these assumptions by revealing the power and influence of women in the Camorra.

Wattis, Louise, Gender, True Crime, and Criminology: Offenders, Victims, and Ethics. (Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender) 260 pp. 2024:7 (Emerald, UK) <720-471>
ISBN 978-1-80455-361-9 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00

Panakkal, Abbas / Arif, Nasr M. (eds.), Matrilineal, Matriarchal, and Matrifocal Islam: The World of Women-Centric Islam. (Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History) 319 pp. 2024:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <720-113>
ISBN 978-3-031-51748-8 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

Around the world, Islamic cultures have developed distinctive matrilineal, matrifocal, matrilocal, or matriarchal natures as a result of how they have been practised by integrated and indigenised Muslim communities. In matrilineal descent systems, in contrast to the more common mosaic of patrilineal patterns, children belong to the mother's ancestry group. Matrilineal Muslims therefore follow a social system in which people are identified with their mother's lineage, and the inheritance of property as well as succession are transferred through the matriline. This volume focuses on matrilineal, matrifocal and matriarchal Muslims and their unique folk natures, integrated social structures, adopted legal systems, and so on. It provides a unique perspective for understanding global Muslim communities that have succeeded in integrating the matrilineal tenets of local practices with religion, adhering to essential Islamic values in a way that makes traditional women-centred cultures acceptable to mainstream Islam.

Arthur-Aidoo, Bernard / Quartey, Princess Naa Kwarkai et al., Breaking Ground: Empowering Women in the Constrcution Industry. 108 pp. 2024:6 (Emerald, UK) <720-204>
ISBN 978-1-83549-639-8 hard ¥12,936.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

The construction industry has historically been male-dominated due to societal expectations and biases, specifically around the physical demands of the job, as well as a lack of role models and mentors. Breaking Ground addresses the scarcity of women in construction and demonstrates how we can overcome these challenges. Exploring the multifaceted relationship between gender and the construction industry, the authors examine the industry's economic, social, and environmental impacts, challenges faced by the workforce and the specific obstacles that contribute to a lesser involvement of women in the field. Outlining strategies to bridge this gap, they further address the empowerment of women within the industry, discussing cultural and environmental factors that shape their professional experiences and the ways in which women's participation and leadership can be increased. Applying these insights on a global scale, the authors conclude by comparing the status of women in the construction industries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, analysing the unique cultural factors affecting their empowerment and mentorship in different regions. Offering a wealth of insights for academic disciplines ranging from gender and economic studies to sociology and sustainability, this seminal work subverts all expectations to encourage and empower women to break ground both literally and figuratively.

Deslauriers, Marguerite, Lucrezia Marinella. (Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy) 75 pp. 2024:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <720-21>
ISBN 978-1-00-947934-9 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-00-901401-4 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

Lucrezia Marinella's (1571-1653) most important contributions to philosophy were two polemical treatises: The Nobility and excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men, and the Exhortations to Women and to Others if They Please. Marinella argues for the superiority of women over men in every respect: psychologically, physiologically, morally, and intellectually. She is particularly effective in using the resources of ancient philosophy to support her various arguments, in which she draws conclusions about the souls and the bodies of women, the nature and significance of women's beauty, the virtue of women and the liberty to which women as well as men are entitled. This Element showcases that her claim of superiority is intended ultimately to justify the possibility of political rule by women.

Weimann-Sandig, Nina / Lutz, Ronald (eds.), Family Dynamics, Gender and Social Inequality During COVID-19: Analysing Long-Term Effects. 285 pp. 2024:4 (Springer, GW) <720-214>
ISBN 978-3-031-51236-0 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book critically analyzes both the negative and positive impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, focusing on changes in families, gender developments, and the evolution of social inequality structures. The Corona pandemic, with its unprecedented restrictions on contact, has meant that families have been challenged in their functioning in a very special way. International studies show that socioeconomic factors such as education, income, but also the geographic center of life of families and women in particular, had an important influence on the management of the pandemic. Despite all negative side effects of the Corona pandemic, there were nevertheless also innovative impulses, especially in the field of social work, particularly work with families. The book's 18 chapters, organized in six sections, highlight not only short-term changes but also longer-term developments that either require a corresponding concept of measures or action or can be evaluated as drivers of innovation in the pandemic. Part I: IntroductionPart II: Family DynamicsPart III: Child Well-beingPart IV: Social Work with Children and FamiliesPart V: Gender and COVID-19Part VI: Conclusion The special feature of the volume is its global perspective. Authors from different countries describe changes and developments on these topics and make clear what profound effects the pandemic had on families, social inequality structures, and gender-specific situations. The anthology does not comprehensively reflect international perspectives. Rather, it leaves it up to readers to compare the developments in the respective countries with their own country of origin from a comparative cultural perspective. In this way, ideas for future, overarching research projects may be stimulated.Family Dynamics, Gender and Social Inequality During COVID-19 is timely and relevant reading for scientists, students, and practitioners in sociology, social work, and political science.

ジェンダー平等政策の統治－変化する北欧福祉国家における経路
Elomaeki, Anna / Yloestalo, Hanna, Governing Gender Equality Policy: Pathways in a Changing Nordic Welfare State. (Gender and Politics) 201 pp. 2024:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <720-222>
ISBN 978-3-031-48138-3 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99 *

This book analyses the effects of public governance reforms on gender equality policy in Finland. Recent economic crises, rising austerity and increasing opposition to gender equality have led to the defunding of gender equality bodies, and the side-lining of gender equality as a political goal. This policy backlash has taken place alongside transformations to the state and governance, that have changed the discourses, knowledge, actors, and practices of gender equality policy. This book contributes to these discussions by demonstrating the subtleties of the constantly changing governance reform agendas, their operation in practice, and how they intertwine with other elements of the gender equality policy backlash. It is based on more than 100 interviews with civil servants, politicians, non-governmental organisations, social partners, and think tanks, and a broad range of policy documents and media material. It will appeal to students and scholars of gender studies, public policy and governance.

Andreasson, Jesper / Johansson, Thomas, Prostate Cancer, Sexual Health, and Ageing Masculinities: Exploring the Achilles' Heel of Men. 131 pp. 2024:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <720-225>
ISBN 978-3-031-53038-8 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book provides a rich, multidimensional analysis of how prostate cancer is lived, treated, and perceived by different actors through the stages of care, rehabilitation, and recovery. Furthermore, it focuses on how side effects, such as urinary leakage and impotence, affects the construction of masculinity. Though the book foregrounds men treated for prostate cancer, it also includes the voices of partners and health care professionals, such as urologists, contact nurses, and sexual health counsellors. The focus is on both phenomenological aspects of prostate cancer-how the disease affects men's self-perception and lifestyle-and on sociological aspects-that is, how gender and masculinity are understood and negotiated in social situations/interactions. Situated within the field of critical studies on men and masculinity the book engages in an intersectional analysis of the relationship between prostate cancer, class, and ageing masculinities, as well as providing an analysis of the complex relational triad created when voices of treated men, their partners, and health care professionals are brought together.

Gardiner, Rita A. / Fox-Kirk, Wendy / Elliott, C. J. et al., Genderwashing in Leadership: Power Policies and Politics. (Transformative Women Leaders) 250 pp. 2024:8 (Emerald, UK) <720-263>
ISBN 978-1-83753-989-5 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

Genderwashing is the process whereby organizational rhetoric differs from the lived experiences of workers, creating the myth of gender equity in the workplace. Genderwashing in Leadership considers how the process of genderwashing highlights hidden biases in organizational policies and procedures, and patriarchal cultural practices. International scholars from diverse areas such as leadership, organizational studies, sociology, and education explore how genderwashing occurs from various perspectives, including leadership, power and privilege, identity, and career recruitment and selection. Uncovering epistemological assumptions that underpin and sustain genderwashing practices, the ways in which genderwashing intersects with embodiment and intersectionality and how genderwashing policies and practices restrict women's advancement into leadership, the editors host a space for dialogue and debate. The Transformative Women Leaders Series is published in collaboration between the International Leadership Association (ILA) and Emerald Publishing. Celebrating women leaders and the leadership styles they employ to achieve success, the books in this series highlight successful context-specific leadership approaches and the moral qualities of endurance.

Theaker, Alison, Do Women Entrepreneurs Practice a Different Kind of Entrepreneurship? (Emerald Points) 96 pp. 2024:5 (Emerald, UK) <720-290>
ISBN 978-1-83549-539-1 hard ¥12,936.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *

Whilst the number of women-owned enterprises has been increasing, they account for only 35% of business ownership in the UK. The term "woman entrepreneur" is suggested to be somewhat problematic, as it seems that women simply practise entrepreneurship, challenging the preconceptions people may have about businesses run by women. Do Women Entrepreneurs Practice a Different Kind of Entrepreneurship? identifies the entrepreneurship model of successful women entrepreneurs, and if they support or diverge from mainstream definitions. Alison Theaker examines female entrepreneurs' experiences to understand whether their entrepreneurship practices conform to existing models, and whether the concept of "success" has different meanings for such businesses than in mainstream entrepreneurial theory.

Menon, Nivedita, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South. (Theory in Forms) 496 pp. 2024:5 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-107>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2620-4 hard ¥24,783.- (税込) US$ 114.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3042-3 paper ¥6,672.- (税込) US$ 30.95 *

In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hypervisualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues. Showing how secularism is often invoked to serve capital and antiminority politics, Menon exposes it as a strategy of governance that is compatible with both democracy and authoritarianism, capitalism and socialism. Secularism also delegitimizes the nonindividuated nonrational self, Menon argues; exploring this aspect, she tracks the journey of psychoanalysis in the global South. Menon further examines the interconnectedness of religion, caste, the state, and women, showing how the discourse of secularism can also be mobilized by Hindu supremacist politics in India. Menon puts Latin American decolonial theorists in conversation with Asian and African thinkers to examine twenty-first-century global reimaginings of selfhood, constitutionalism, citizenship, and anticapitalist existence. Through a feminist and global perspective, Menon suggests that transformative politics is better imagined by stepping out of the frame offered by secularism and focusing on substantive values such as democracy, social justice, and ecological justice.