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

Barras, Abby, Transgender and Non-Binary People in Everyday Sport: A Trans Feminist Approach to Improving Inclusion. (Gender and Sexualities in Psychology) 200 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-903>
ISBN 978-1-03-247299-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-246617-0 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This formative work discusses transgender people's inclusion in everyday sport in the UK. It adopts a trans feminist approach to explore pivotal topics regarding the barriers to participation faced by transgender and non-binary people.Offering a critical perspective on the current landscape surrounding this topic, the book draws from insightful interviews conducted by the author with eighteen transgender and non-binary individuals. The author uses a critical social science approach to explore the heteropatriarchal construction of sport in the modern industrialised west, and how this has formed the backdrop to the continuing discrimination towards, many athletes, not just those who are transgender. Using firsthand perspectives, it focuses on the three themes of the sporting body, sporting spaces and sporting communities. It investigates why conversations about fairness and safety regarding transgender athletes have become so polarised within the media, and the significance of taking a trans feminist approach to reducing barriers in sport. Lastly, the book's key findings initiate a dialogue on the importance of gender affirmation in sport, the value of supportive teammates/role models, and how sporting spaces can be reimagined to promote greater inclusion for all.Transgender and Non-Binary People in Everyday Sport is a crucial resource for researchers, academics, and students in the field of social science, sports organisations, policy makers, third-sector organisations, activists and other related disciplines. The book will also be a compelling read for anyone with an interest in improving inclusion for transgender people in everyday sport, and learn more about how trans feminism can achieve this.

Forsyth, Jacky / Roberts, Claire-Marie (eds.), Women's Football. 312 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-908>
ISBN 978-1-03-246488-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-246485-5 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

The global increase in viewership of and participation in women's football means that, to continue with this growth, we need to appreciate the specific scientific and health issues that determine successful performance for women. Women's Football provides a thorough, yet straightforward and accessible, analysis of the key physiological, biomechanical and social-psychological issues that can be applied to achieve women's footballing development.This cutting-edge text puts developing elite women footballers at the front and centre of its core aim, through the delivery of evidence-based, scientific information focusing on best practice. As such, each chapter is co-written, where possible, by a scholar and a practitioner or player (e.g., coach, footballer), meaning the scientific principles and research presented within are translated clearly into practice.Women's Football is essential reading for anyone who is involved with the game, including footballers themselves, as well as strength and conditioning coaches, physiotherapists, medics, nutritionists, sport psychologists, sports scientists, coaches, coach developers, technical directors, general managers, governing body personnel and club owners, from grassroots to elite level. The book is also invaluable to students and academics in sport and exercise, who are studying this topic.

Wilson, Wylin D., Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health. (Religion and Social Transformation) 224 pp. 2025:1 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-92>
ISBN 978-1-4798-1720-7 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-1723-8 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Offers Bioethics a bold approach to redress its failing Black women Black people, and especially Black women, suffer and die from diseases at much higher rates than their white counterparts. The vast majority of these health disparities are not attributed to behavioral differences or biology, but to the pervasive devaluation of Black bodies. Womanist Bioethics addresses this crisis from a bioethical standpoint. It offers a critique of mainstream bioethics as having embraced the perspective of its mainly white, male progenitors, limiting the extent to which it is positioned to engage the issues that particularly affect vulnerable populations. This book makes the provocative but essential case that because African American women- across almost every health indicator- fare worse than others. We must not only include, but center, Black women's experiences and voices in bioethics discourse and practice. To this end, Womanist Bioethics develops the first specifically womanist form of bioethics, focused on the diverse vulnerabilities and multiple oppressions that women of color face. This innovative womanist bioethics is grounded in the Black Christian prophetic tradition, based on the ideas that God does not condone oppression and that it is imperative to defend those who are vulnerable. It also draws on womanist theology and Black liberation theology, which take similar stances. At its core, the volume offers a new, broad-based approach to bioethics that is meant as a corrective to mainstream bioethics' privileging of white, particularly male, experiences, and it outlines ways in which hospitals, churches, and the larger community can better respond to the healthcare needs of Black women.

Lingam, Lakshmi / Mkhwanazi, Nolwazi (eds.), Digital Technologies and Gendered Realities. 248 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-924>
ISBN 978-0-367-47969-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

The book explores the varying experiences and engagement of youth with smartphones and digital technologies in India and South Africa. It examines the process of meaning-making (identity construction) garnered through smartphone technology - specifically relating to notions of love, sex, and sexuality.A keen reappraisal of the smartphone revolution, the essays underline the constant negotiations between technology and social institutions such as, family, schools, colleges\universities, religious groups, traditional community leaders, media, police, law, and governments. The volume looks at new forms of digital-based surveillance on girls, women and gender minorities and maps the responses of state, civil society and women's movements in tackling the divergent narratives of freedom versus control; empowerment versus violence. It specifically looks at how concepts of 'privacy', 'agency', 'autonomy' and 'consent' are being framed in the legal arena regarding young women, which may or may not be empowering of their agency and choices.Challenging notions about gender, technology and society, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of sociology and social anthropology, politics, gender studies, and Global South studies.

Allan, Jonathan A, Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin. (The Exquisite Corpse) 352 pp. 2024:11 (U. Regina Pr., CN) <725-933>
ISBN 978-1-77940-031-4 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-77940-030-7 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Uncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the foreskin and its position in contemporary Anglo-American culture. From language to art, from religion to medicine and public health, Uncut is a provocative book that asks us to ask ourselves what we know and don't know about this seemingly small piece of skin. The "uncut" penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents of male infants worry about whether or not the foreskin should be removed so their little boy can grow up to "look like dad" or to avoid imagined bullying in the locker room. Medical experts and public health organizations argue back and forth about whether circumcision is medically necessary, while "intactivists" advocate that removing an infant's foreskin without their consent is mutilation. Drawing on all these threads, Jonathan A. Allan leads us through the history and cultural construction of the foreskin-from Michelangelo's David to parenting manuals, from nineteenth-century panic over masturbation to foreskin restoration-to ultimately ask: what is the future of the foreskin?

Anheier, Helmut K. / Markovic, Darinka, Gender Equality and the Cultural Economy: Comparative Perspectives. (Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries) 282 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-934>
ISBN 978-0-367-85715-8 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-284811-2 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

The status of women in the creative and cultural industries remains precarious. This comparative analysis provides insights from seven key economies to help understand progress toward gender equality in culture and the arts and the broader cultural economy.With empirical and policy analysis spanning Europe and the US, the authors investigate the extent to which gender equality has entered the mainstream along dimensions of leadership, access and awards, pay and pension gaps, work-life balance, and the monitoring of gender equality. While many of the structural barriers have been erased, countries differ significantly in how much gender equality has been achieved in the creative economy, and how much female talent is lost and unrecognized.This book is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners across the human and social sciences, especially those involved with arts management and the creative or cultural economy more broadly.

Nguyen, Mimi Thi, The Promise of Beauty. 312 pp. 2024:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <725-966>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2676-1 hard ¥24,223.- (税込) US$ 107.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3097-3 paper ¥6,495.- (税込) US$ 28.95

In The Promise of Beauty, Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastrophe. Nguyen conceptualizes beauty, which she observes that we turn to in emergencies and times of destruction, as a tool to identify and bridge the discrepancy between the world as it is and what it ought to be. Drawing widely from aesthetic and critical theories, Nguyen outlines how beauty-or its lack-points to the conditions that must exist for it to flourish. She notes that an absence of beauty becomes both a political observation and a call to action to transform the conditions of the situation so as to replicate, preserve, or repair beauty. The promise of beauty can then engender a critique of social arrangements and political structures that would set the foundations for its possibility and presence. In this way, Nguyen highlights the role of beauty in inspiring action toward a more just world.

Paquet, Lili / Williamson, Rosemary (eds.), True Crime and Women: Writers, Readers, and Representations. (Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media) 208 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-968>
ISBN 978-1-03-252067-4 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-252068-1 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Bringing new research from true crime writers, scholars, and media practitioners around the world, this book offers fresh perspectives on how women read, write, and are portrayed in true crime stories across different platforms, including documentaries, podcasts, and TikToks.The genre of true crime is flourishing, and it is overwhelmingly consumed by women. Despite this, there is much we do not know about how women consume true crime and are represented in true crime stories of various kinds. This edited volume helps to fill this gap in our knowledge. Across 10 chapters and using a variety of study methods, including creative practice, interviews, surveys, archival research, and case studies, the book reveals the multifaceted ways that true crime matters to women and suggests areas of future research. It also offers new insights on a diverse range of topics, such as racial identities, fraudsters, activism, victimization, and deviance, as well as highlights major cases from past to present which have influenced criminal justice responses.True Crime and Women is intended for researchers and students of criminology, literary studies, gender studies, media and journalism studies, and rhetorical studies, as well as media practitioners and writers.

Weir, Lucy, Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury. (Routledge Research in Gender and Art) 218 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-979>
ISBN 978-1-03-202709-8 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book is an ambitious and expansive examination of the visual language of self-injury in performance art from the 1960s to the present.Inspired by the gendered nature of discussion around self-harm, the book challenges established readings of risk-taking and self-injury in global performance practice. The interdisciplinary methodology draws from art history and sociology to provide a new critical analysis of the relationship between masculinity and self-inflicted injury. Based upon interviews with a range of artists around the world, it offers an innovative understanding of the diverse meanings behind self-injury in performance, and delves into the gendered coding of self-harming bodies. Individual chapters examine the work of Ron Athey, Guenter Brus, Wafaa Bilal, Franko B, Andre Stitt, Pyotr Pavlensky, and Yang Zhichao, offering a new perspective on the forms and functions of self-injury in performance art.The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, performance studies, gender studies, and cultural studies.

イスラーム研究における女性の問題
Ali, Kecia, The Woman Question in Islamic Studies. 216 pp. 2024:9 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-98>
ISBN 978-0-691-18359-6 hard ¥22,427.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-0-691-26184-3 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95

The interconnected ways that sexism functions in academic Islamic studies and how to shift professional norms toward parityDespite remarkable shifts in the demographics of Islamic studies in recent decades, the field continues to be dominated by men, who often relegate other scholars and their work-particularly research on gender-to its periphery, while treating subfields in which men predominate as more rigorous and central. In The Woman Question in Islamic Studies, Kecia Ali explores the interconnected ways that sexism functions in academic Islamic studies. Examining publications, citations, curricula, and media representations, Ali finds that, despite the growth and depth of scholarship on Islam and gender, men continue to overlook women's scholarship, even in work that purports to discuss gender issues. Moreover, media and social media dynamics make talking about Islam and Muslims for broader audiences especially fraught for scholars who are not men, particularly when the topic is gender or sexuality.Combining broad surveys with more focused analyses of a smaller set of texts, Ali shows that textbooks and syllabi continue to exclude women as historical actors and scholars and to marginalize gender and sexuality as subject matter. Finally, she provides a "Beginner's Guide to Eradicating Sexism in Islamic Studies," offering practical strategies to help scholars avoid common pitfalls in their own work and contribute to broader professional transformations.

Al Obeidli, Noura, Emirati Women Journalists: Bargaining with Patriarchy in Search of Equality. (Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies) 152 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <725-981>
ISBN 978-1-03-278541-7 hard ¥14,118.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99

This book presents a rare investigation of the media landscape and gender dynamics in Emirati newsrooms, with a socio-cultural focus on the influence of tribal patriarchalism in determining Emirati women's role as news-makers.Shedding light on the stories of 40 Emirati and Arab expat journalists, including pioneer Emirati women journalists, the book offers insight into how these journalists construct gender differences and identity, and how this influences their everyday attitudes, conversations, routines, and journalistic practises. The empirical study is supplanted with ethnographic explanations of the newsroom norms and journalistic practises from the author, who used participant observation inside two major news centres in Abu Dhabi and Dubai to understand the socio-cultural factors that shape the lives of Emirati and Arab expat journalists, their thoughts and beliefs about the media environment in the Emirates, and their opinions on the authoritarian political control, censorship, and the outdated media law.This book will interest students and scholars of journalism and journalistic practice, media policy, international journalism, gender studies and Middle East studies

Balkwill, Stephanie, The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century. 272 pp. 2024:8 (U. California Pr., US) <725-633>
ISBN 978-0-520-40181-5 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the time of her death, she had transformed herself into Empress Dowager Ling, one of the most powerful politicians of her age and one of the first of many Buddhist women to wield incredible influence in dynastic East Asia. In this book, Stephanie Balkwill documents the Empress Dowager's rise to power and life on the throne against the broader world of imperial China under the rule of the Northern Wei dynasty, a foreign people from Inner Asia who built their capital deep in the Chinese heartland. Building on largely untapped Buddhist materials, Balkwill shows that the life and rule of the Empress Dowager is a larger story of the reinvention of religious, ethnic, and gender norms in a rapidly changing multicultural society. The Women Who Ruled China recovers the voices of those left out of the mainstream historical record, painting a compelling portrait of medieval Chinese society reinventing itself under the Empress Dowager's leadership.

Jiang, Quanbao / Li, Shuzhuo, Gender Imbalance and Marriage Squeeze in China. (China Perspectives) 240 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-636>
ISBN 978-1-03-256096-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of China's unbalanced sex ratio at birth and marriage market, and the implications of these phenomena for population development and families.China's persistently high sex ratio at birth (SRB) since the early 1980s has led to serious gender imbalance and male marriage squeeze. After examining the quality of existing data on SRB, the authors provide their estimates of the sex-selective abortion rate, describe the trends and geographical patterns in SRB, and disaggregate changes in SRB by birth order and province. Special attention is given to the number and proportion of missing girls between 1980 and 2010. Based on the quantitative analyses, the book projects the implications of the severe gender imbalance for China's population development and the future dynamics of the marriage market, including trends in age at first marriage, the proportion of never-married, the age structure of surplus males, and the life cycle of these families.The book will appeal to scholars and students of demography, sociology, and China studies, especially those interested in China's population and contemporary society.

Merkel-Hess, Kate, Women and Their Warlords: Domesticating Militarism in Modern China. 264 pp. 2024:8 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-641>
ISBN 978-0-226-83430-6 hard ¥10,098.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Explores the complex history and legacy of elite wives, concubines, and daughters of warlords in twentieth-century China. In Women and Their Warlords, historian Kate Merkel-Hess examines the lives and personalities of the female relatives of the military rulers who governed regions of China from 1916 to 1949. Posing for candid photographs and sitting for interviews, these women did not merely advance male rulers' agendas. They advocated for social and political changes, gave voice to feminist ideas, and shaped how the public perceived them. As the first publicly political partners in modern China, the wives and concubines of Republican-era warlords changed how people viewed elite women's engagement in politics. Drawing on popular media sources, including magazine profiles and gossip column items, Merkel-Hess draws unexpected connections between militarism, domestic life, and state power in this insightful new account of gender and authority in twentieth-century China.

Jeong-Mi, Park, The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea. (Asia Pacific Modern 20) 273 pp. 2024:8 (U. California Pr., US) <725-652>
ISBN 978-0-520-39645-6 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-39646-3 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95

The State's Sexuality uncovers how the lives and work of women engaged in prostitution, long considered the most abased members of society, have been strategically intertwined with the lofty purpose of building South Korea's postcolonial nation-state. Through a complicated, contradictory patchwork of laws and regulations, which Park Jeong-Mi conceptualizes as a "toleration-regulation regime," the South Korean state did not merely exclude sex workers from ordinary citizenship; it also mobilized them for national security, national development, and the making of a gendered citizenry. In the process, the newly independent state was constructed, augmented, and consolidated. Sex workers often protested such draconian policies and sometimes utilized state apparatuses to get recognition as citizens. Based on expansive, meticulous archival research and sophisticated interpretation of historical records and women's voices, Park rewrites the dynamic history of South Korea from 1945 to the present through the lens of prostitution.

Salvo, Sophie, Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century. 272 pp. 2024:10 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-71>
ISBN 978-0-226-82770-4 hard ¥25,806.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-82772-8 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Enriches contemporary debates about gender and language by probing the histories of the philosophy and sciences of language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from understudied ethnographic and scientific works to canonical literature and philosophy, Sophie Salvo uncovers the prehistory of the inextricability of gender and language. Taking German discourses on language as her focus, she argues that we are not the inventors but, rather, the inheritors and adapters of the notion that gender and language are interrelated. Particularly during the long nineteenth century, ideas about sexual differences shaped how language was understood, classified, and analyzed. As Salvo explains, philosophers asserted the patriarchal origins of language, linguists investigated "women's languages" and grammatical gender, and literary Modernists imagined "feminine" sign systems, and in doing so they not only deemed sex-based divisions to be necessary categories of language but also produced a plethora of gendered tropes and fictions, which they used both to support their claims and delimit their disciplines. Articulating Difference charts new territory, revealing how gendered conceptions of language make possible the misogynistic logic of exclusion that underlies arguments claiming, for example, that women cannot be great orators or writers. While Salvo focuses on how male scholars aligned language study with masculinity, she also uncovers how women responded, highlighting the contributions of understudied nineteenth-century works on language that women wrote even as they were excluded from academic opportunities.

Demirbas, Goekben, Gender, Class, and Respectability in Leisure: Understanding Women's 'Free Time Activities' in Modern Turkey. (Routledge Critical Leisure Studies) 216 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-710>
ISBN 978-1-03-265017-3 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book interrogates the role of gender and class in shaping women's everyday leisure practices. Drawing on empirical research in urban Turkey, the book explores how leisure is perceived and practised by women within their communities. The book examines the relationship of women's leisure to their labour, women's access to and uses of public leisure spaces, and the dynamics of their everyday sociability within their neighbourhoods. It is the first book to apply Skegg's concept of 'respectability' - socially recognised judgments and standards which label the 'right' practices, that hold morality and power in a given context - as a theoretical tool with which to understand leisure in a country in which modernisation and Westernisation have been a central dynamic shaping political, social and cultural life. This analysis reveals that two measures of gendered respectability - reproductive work and the honour code - and how they mediate with the classed measures of respectability, are essential to understanding women's leisure practices in the Turkish context. The book argues that these interactions are likely shared in many Global South countries, including Islamic societies, and therefore that this analysis shines important new light on women's experiences more broadly, and on the social, political and cultural dynamics of traditional social structures in a modernising world. This book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in leisure studies, women's studies, sociology, cultural studies or Middle East studies.

Ferguson, Susanna, Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought. 336 pp. 2024:9 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-713>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4006-1 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4033-7 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00

Tompkins, Kyla Wazana, Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot. (Sexual Cultures) 288 pp. 2024:12 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-73>
ISBN 978-1-4798-1920-1 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-1922-5 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

How deviant materials figure resistance Yeast ferments, gelatin jiggles, drugs and alcohol froth and bubble, and flesh from animals and plants actively molds and rots. These materials morph through multiple states and phases, and their movement is imbued with a liveliness that is suggestive of volition. Deviant Matter examines four aesthetic and material categories- gelatinousness, fermentation, putrefaction, and intoxication-to theorize how the modern state seeks to manage deviant populations across multiple scales, from the level of the single cell up to the affective and aesthetic imperatives of the state and its bureaucratic projects. Kyla Wazana Tompkins deploys a new materialist engagement with the history of race and queer life, making an argument for queer of color method as political and disciplinary critique. Deviant Matter delves into a vast archive that includes nineteenth-century medical and scientific writing; newspaper comic strips and early film; the Food and Drug Act of 1906; the literature of Martin Delany, Louisa May Alcott and Herman Melville; and twenty-first century queer minoritarian video, installation, and performance art. Drawing from the genealogy of Black feminist and queer of color critique, in Deviant Matter rot, jelly, ferment and intoxicating materials serve as figures for thinking about how matter, art, politics, and affect can be read across multiple scales, ranging from the intimate and molecular everyday to the vast print production and inner workings of the state. Tompkins demonstrates that we are moved by our encounters with the materials in Deviant Matter, producing feelings and sensations that she links to a system of social value where these sensations come to be understood as productive, exciting, disgusting, intoxicating, or even hallucinatory. Moving through multiple states and phase changes, falling apart and reforming again, ferment, rot, intoxicants and jelly energize and choreograph both themselves and human behavior. At the same time, these materialities come to signify exactly those populations whose energy escapes the extractive efforts of capitalism and the state.

Heckert, Carina, Birth in Times of Despair: Reproductive Violence on the US-Mexico Border. (Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice) 256 pp. 2024:10 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-773>
ISBN 978-1-4798-3206-4 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-3207-1 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Explores forms of maternal harm stemming from US policies on the US-Mexico border In El Paso, Texas, the racist undertones of anti-immigrant sentiment have contributed to various forms of violence in the region, including the 2019 mass shooting that was the deadliest attack on Latinos in US history. As the community continued to mourn this tragedy, the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed yet another set of economic, social, and public health catastrophes that were disproportionately felt within the border region. In Birth in Times of Despair, Carina Heckert traces women's emotional experiences of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period in the midst of a series of longstanding and ongoing crises in the US-Mexico border region. Drawing from interviews, surveys, and medical records of women who gave birth during an intense period of sociopolitical crisis, she examines how limited access to health care, inhumane immigration policies, and exposure to an array of harmful social environmental circumstances serve as sources of intense harm for pregnant and recently pregnant women. In so doing, Heckert reveals how these experiences serve as a profound critique of policies that continue to fail to protect women and their families. She concludes with suggestions for practical, humane, and urgent policy changes to alleviate the needless suffering of this vulnerable group. With its comprehensive portrait of the abysmal physical and mental health outcomes pregnant women face within the border region, Birth in Times of Despair expands our understanding of how obstetric violence is enhanced by the structural violence of the state, and unveils the urgency to ameliorate the harm caused by current immigration policies.

Ensor, Sarah, Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World. (Sexual Cultures) 280 pp. 2025:2 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-802>
ISBN 978-1-4798-2944-6 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-2947-7 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

What queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapse What does it mean to be at the end of life, the end of a family line, the end of a species, or the end of the future itself? To be "at the last" is often a terrifying prospect, but what would it mean if only the lasting remained? When faced with the abrupt end to the continuities of ecology and nature, environmentalists often limit the conversation by focusing on the 'future.' Activists work for the welfare of future generations, while scientists labor over projections of future outcomes. In Queer Lasting, Sarah Ensor asks what this emphasis on the future makes unthinkable. She turns to queer scenes of futurelessness to consider what ecocriticism can learn from queer theory, which imagines and inhabits the immanent ethical possibilities of the present. Defining queerness as a mode of collective life in which these paradigms of lasting-persisting and ending-are constitutively intertwined, Sarah Ensor turns to two periods of queer extinction for models of care, continuance, and collective action predicated on futurelessness: the 1890s, in which existing forms of erotic affiliation were extinguished through the binary of homo/heterosexuality, and the 1980s spread of the AIDS epidemic, which threatened the total loss of gay lives and specific erotic ways of life. Through readings that trace unexpected formal resonances across the works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, Allen Barnett, and Samuel Delany, Queer Lasting maintains that queer writing, in its many-shaded intimacy with death, offers us a rich archive to produce new ways of thinking through our environmental cataclysm. Whether confronting the epidemic contours of the AIDS crisis, theorizing the temporary encounters of cruising, or reckoning with the lives of non-reproductive subjects, this book about futurelessness is also a book about persistence. It demonstrates how, far from giving up in the face of the paradigms that environmentalism avoids, queer culture has instead predicated its living-and its lasting-upon them.

R.カーソンとクイアの愛の力
Maxwell, Lida, Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love. 168 pp. 2025:1 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-815>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4053-5 hard ¥5,610.- (税込) US$ 25.00

Reading Silent Spring as an outgrowth of Rachel Carson's love with Dorothy Freeman, Maxwell argues for the power of queer love now in the fight against climate change. There is something major missing from most accounts of Silent Spring and its impact: namely, Dorothy Freeman, with whom Rachel Carson had a love relationship for over a decade. Freeman had a summer house with her husband, Stan, on the island of Southport, Maine, where Carson settled after the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us. Correspondence shows the women developing strong feelings as they connect over their shared pleasure in the rocky coast. In this moving new book, political theorist Lida Maxwell offers close readings that suggest Carson's relationship with Freeman was central to her writing of Silent Spring-a work whose defense of vibrant nonhuman nature allowed Carson and Freeman's love to flourish and for the pair to become their most authentic selves. What Maxwell calls Carson and Freeman's "queer love" unsettled their heteronormative ideas of the good life as based in bourgeois private life, and led Carson to an increasingly critical view of capitalism and its effects on nonhuman nature and human lives alike. From these women's experience Maxwell compellingly makes the case for an alternative democratic climate politics based on learning how to tune into authentic desire. Read through this lens, Carson's work begins to look different and shows us not that the human incursion into nature is dangerous, but that a particular relationship is: the loveless using up of nature for capitalism. When Carson and Freeman correspond in excited detail about the algae, anemones, and veery thrushes of the Maine coast, they give us a glimpse of a different, more loving use of nature. Inspired by Carson and Freeman's deep care for one another, Maxwell reveals how a form of loving available to all of us can help reshape political desire amidst contemporary environmental crises.

Packer, Melina, Toxic Sexual Politics: Toxicology, Environmental Poisons, and Queer Feminist Futures. (Health, Society, and Inequality) 352 pp. 2025:1 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-825>
ISBN 978-1-4798-2861-6 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-2862-3 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A bold expose of how the very foundation of toxicology has been contaminated by sexist and racist ideologies The first critical understanding of the field of toxicology from a feminist and antiracist perspective, Toxic Sexual Politics asserts that the science of toxicants must be held accountable for the uneven distribution of toxic pollution along racial and sexual lines. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and extensive ethnographic and archival research, including participant observations in toxicology classrooms, conferences, and laboratories, Melina Packer urges environmental health advocates to place toxicant science within its masculinist, militarist, and eugenicist history. Toxic Sexual Politics shows how the founding fathers of U.S. toxicology were ideologically aligned with the chemical industry, inventing a science that could "make chemicals safe," as opposed to one that could adequately protect planetary health from toxicants' hazards. While many toxicologists today are critical of the chemical industry, they continue to rely on the highly limited tools of toxicology as accurate measures of toxicity, as do government regulators, the courts, and environmental advocates. Unlike most critiques of the chemical industry and narratives of environmental health movements, Toxic Sexual Politics refuses to take the science at face value. By focusing on the sexist, racist, and ableist biases reinforced by toxicology, Packer powerfully argues that this scientific discipline reproduces the very same white supremacist and heterosexist logics that generated environmental injustices in the first place. The field of toxicology can explicitly confront chemical corporate power by building from queer, feminist, anti-ableist, and antiracist movements for environmental and reproductive justice.

Waldman, Emily Gold / Crawford, Bridget J. / Cahn, Naomi, Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It. 200 pp. 2024:10 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-406>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3660-6 hard ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00

More than half the population will experience menopause; it is time for the law to acknowledge it. Menopause is a stage of life that half the population will inevitably experience. But it remains one of the last great taboo topics for discussion, even among close friends and family members. Silence and stigmas around many aspects of reproductive health-from menstruation to infertility to miscarriage to abortion-have historically created the conditions in which bias and discrimination can flourish. Menopause exemplifies that phenomenon, and in Hot Flash, authors Emily Gold Waldman, Bridget Crawford and Naomi Cahn set out to replace the silence surrounding menopause with a deeper understanding. Hot Flash explores the culturally specific stereotypes that surround menopause as well as how menopause is treated in law and medicine. The book contextualizes menopause as one of several stages in a person's reproductive life. Taking U.S. law regarding pregnancy and breastfeeding as an entry point, the authors suggest changes in existing legislation and workplace policies that would incorporate menopause as well. More broadly, they push us to imagine how law can support a more equitable future. A broader framework further enables the authors to explore menopause discrimination as it is experienced by trans men and gender nonbinary people. They ultimately make the case for a new wave of intersectional feminism that encompasses gender, disability, age, and race.

Bedera, Nicole, On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence. 330 pp. 2024:10 (U. California Pr., US) <725-454>
ISBN 978-0-520-39589-3 hard ¥6,046.- (税込) US$ 26.95

Harris, Jessica C., Hear Our Stories: Campus Sexual Violence, Intersectionality, and How We Build a Better University. 232 pp. 2024:11 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-464>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3547-0 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4105-1 paper ¥5,834.- (税込) US$ 26.00

Despite focused efforts to stop the perpetration of campus sexual violence, the statistic that one in four college women will experience such violence has remained steady over the last sixty years. The number of higher education institutions under federal Title IX investigation for mishandling sexual violence cases also continues to grow. In Hear Our Stories, Jessica Harris demonstrates how preventive efforts often fall short because they lack intersectional perspectives, and often obscure how sexual violence is imbued with racial significance. Drawing on interviews with Women of Color student survivors, staff, and documents from three different universities, this book analyzes sexual violence on the college campus from an intersectional lens, centering the stories of Women of Color. Harris explores the intersectional realities of campus sexual violence, including survivors' racialized and gendered experiences with campus rape culture, institutional betrayal, prevention programming, reporting and disclosing, and feminist and anti-racist movements. Hear Our Stories challenges dominant approaches to campus sexual violence that too-often stall the implementation of more effective sexual violence prevention and response efforts that could offer transformative outcomes for all students.

Larance, Lisa Young, Broken: Women's Stories of Intimate and Institutional Harm and Repair. (Gender and Justice 12) 248 pp. 2024:8 (U. California Pr., US) <725-470>
ISBN 978-0-520-39232-8 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-39233-5 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In the United States, the second-wave feminist fight to achieve legal and societal recognition of men's violence against women leaned heavily on the victim-offender binary, which has since become inscribed in funding schemes, legal remedies, and intervention approaches. In Broken, scholar-practitioner Lisa Young Larance draws on her extensive in-depth qualitative inquiry and practice experience with women who have participated in antiviolence intervention to explain how this binary erases the trauma histories of those who both survive and cause harm. Calling for a more holistic conception of interpersonal violence, Broken illuminates the connections across race, class, and sexual orientation that facilitate women's healing and repair.

Stardust, Zahra, Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance. (A Camera Obscura book) 328 pp. 2024:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <725-484>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2681-5 hard ¥24,223.- (税込) US$ 107.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3106-2 paper ¥6,495.- (税込) US$ 28.95

In Indie Porn, Zahra Stardust examines the motivations and interventions of independent porn producers as they navigate criminal laws, risk-averse platforms, discriminatory algorithms, and rampant piracy. Herself a porn performer and participant, Stardust takes readers behind the scenes, offering intimate insights into this socio-political movement. She finds politicians who watch porn in parliament, protesters leading face-sitting demonstrations, sex workers making COVID-safe pornography, and artists reverse-engineering porn detection software. Against the backdrop of a global gig economy, Stardust documents the promises of indie porn to democratize content, revolutionize production, and redistribute wealth while outlining the fantasies of regulators, whose illusions of what porn is and does foreclose possibilities for transformation. Inevitably, as these paradigms collide, porn producers engage in creative tactics to hustle for survival and visibility, from ethical certification to law reform, sometimes reproducing hierarchies of stigma themselves. By highlighting how porn stigma is bound up with intersecting oppressions, Stardust identifies these junctions as coalitional opportunities for changing social relationships to sex, work, and capitalism.

P.オーウェンズ著　男性なき国際思想史
Owens, Patricia, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men. 408 pp. 2025:1 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-510>
ISBN 978-0-691-26644-2 hard ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. Indeed, women were among the leading international thinkers of the era, shaping the development of the field as scholars, journalists and public intellectuals-and as heterosexual spouses and intimate same-sex partners.Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, and weaving together personal, institutional and intellectual narratives, Owens documents key moments and locations in the effort to forge international relations as a separate academic discipline in Britain. She finds that women's ideas and influence were first marginalised and later devalued, ignored and erased. Examining the roles played by some of the most important women thinkers in the field, including Margery Perham, Merze Tate, Eileen Power, Margaret Cleeve, Coral Bell and Susan Strange, Owens traces the intellectual and institutional legacies of misogyny and racism. She argues that the creation of international relations was a highly gendered and racialised project that failed to understand plurality on a worldwide scale. Acknowledging this intellectual failure, and recovering the history of women in the field, points to possible sources for its renewal.

Chatfield, Sara, The Politics of Bathroom Access and Exclusion in the United States. (Elements in Gender and Politics) 75 pp. 2024:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <725-547>
ISBN 978-1-00-953956-2 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-00-942906-1 paper ¥4,899.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

The past twenty years have seen an explosion of state laws focused on bathroom access, including laws that both restrict and expand the ability of people to access basic needs in public. Through an analysis of several distinct state-level policies that regulate bathrooms along the dimensions of gender and gender roles, gender identity, and disability, the author argues that bathroom access is an important aspect of citizenship, signaling both physical and symbolic exclusion and inclusion. Social citizenship requires that individuals and groups be able to fully take part in the public sphere, yet denying toilet access means that individuals can only exist in public for as long as they can 'hold it.' Thus, ensuring equal access to bathrooms - or denying it to targeted groups - becomes a powerful way for society to define who is a full citizen and to indicate who belongs and who doesn't in public spaces.

Fraser, Zinga A. (ed.), Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words: Speeches and Writings. 288 pp. 2024:10 (U. California Pr., US) <725-551>
ISBN 978-0-520-38698-3 hard ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95

"A timely, detailed, and inspiring book that helps maintain the intellectual legacy of Shirley Chisholm. The book reveals new dimensions of the congresswoman's politics, activism, and spirit."-Regina King, Academy Award-winning actor and star of ShirleyLooking beyond her political symbolism to celebrate not only who Shirley Chisholm was but who she is-a revolutionary thinker with much to teach us today. In the midst of her groundbreaking 20-year career in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm once declared, "Everyone-with the exception of the black woman herself-has been interpreting the black woman." Edited by Zinga A. Fraser, the leading scholar dedicated to the study of Chisholm's legacy, Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words gives readers a rare opportunity to engage with the congresswoman's powerful ideas in her own voice. Many Americans are familiar with Chisholm's importance as the first Black woman in Congress and the first woman and African American to run for president with either major party. This long-overdue treatment of her work establishes Chisholm as an unparalleled public intellectual and Black feminist both in her time and now. The book not only contextualizes the Civil Rights and Black Power era; it also provides timeless insights on issues that are exceedingly relevant in our current moment. Featuring a captivating introduction by Fraser, Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words introduces a new generation to one of the most impactful proponents of democracy in America.

アメリカ政治におけるマスキュリニティ
McDermott, Monika L. / Cassino, Dan (eds.), Masculinity in American Politics. 352 pp. 2025:2 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-558>
ISBN 978-1-4798-3068-8 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-3070-1 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

How elements of masculinity manifest themselves in all aspects of American political life While hardly a new phenomenon, masculinity-which includes elements of toughness, independence, and leadership, among others-roared onto the national political stage in America with the 2016 candidacy, election, and presidency of Donald Trump. Research into masculinity dates back over a century, but little attention has been paid to the specific role of masculinity in politics beyond the conventional wisdom that it, rather than femininity, is the dominant force. This lack of research has led to a lack of knowledge on how exactly, and how much, masculinity shapes political structures, attitudes and behaviors, from children's socialization to our masculine political world, to how a new generation views this traditional dominance. In Masculinity in American Politics, Monika L. McDermott and Dan Cassino bring together a prestigious group of interdisciplinary scholars to explore these questions and their implications for different aspects of political life. Topics include the challenge of defining and measuring masculinity, how perceptions of gender and masculinity can shape campaign messaging strategies and public opinion, and other discussions of political identity, including age, race, and ethnicity. With contributions from Melissa Deckman, Jill S. Greenlee, Amanda Bittner, and other high-profile scholars, this comprehensive volume provides insight into masculinity and its high-stakes political manifestations, particularly as Gen Z fights to redefine the contours of their own gender and sexuality. Drawing upon insights from politics, sociology, psychology, and the broader social sciences, Masculinity in American Politics pushes the field to look "beyond the binary" and illuminate this brave, new world of political conflict and possibility.

Sappho, Plato, and Other Lovers, How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality. Selected, tr., & intro. by S. Nooter. (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) 264 pp. 2024:6 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-21>
ISBN 978-0-691-24861-5 hard ¥4,027.- (税込) US$ 17.95 *

An irresistible anthology of ancient Greek writings that explore queer desire and loveEros, limb-loosening, whirls me about again,that bittersweet, implacable creature.-SapphoThe idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness, wit, and insight. How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between women, and between humans and gods, in lucid and lively new translations. Filled with enthralling stories, this anthology invites readers of all sexualities and identities to explore writings that describe many kinds of erotic encounters and feelings, and that envision a playful and passionate approach to sexuality as part of a rich and fulfilling life.How to Be Queer starts with Homer's Iliad and moves through lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, philosophy, and biography, drawing on a wide range of authors, including Sappho, Plato, Anacreon, Pindar, Theognis, Aristophanes, and Xenophon. It features both beautiful poetry and thought-provoking prose, emotional outpourings and humorous anecdotes. From Homer's story of the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, one of the most intense between men in world literature, to Sappho's lyrics on the pleasures and pains of loving women, these writings show the many meanings of what the Greeks called eros.Complete with brief introductions to the selections, and with the original Greek on facing pages, How to Be Queer reveals what the Greeks knew long ago-that the erotic and queer are a source of life and a cause for celebration.

Barton, Bernadette / Brents, Barbara G. / Jones, A. (eds.), Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the Twenty-First Century. 400 pp. 2024:11 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-243>
ISBN 978-1-4798-2131-0 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-2134-1 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A cutting-edge volume on current trends in sex work, from sugar relationships and cyber brothels to financial domination, sex worker activism, and feminist porn Sex is for sale in more ways than ever. It can be bought and sold online, in sex clubs, on the street, and around the world. As with many industries, discrimination, exploitation, and inequality persist in sex work. Yet it also offers autonomy, job satisfaction, and even pleasurable experiences for those involved. Sex Work Today explores these contradictions, offering an intimate look at the benefits and challenges of sex work across geographic contexts. Featuring thirty-one original essays by sex workers, advocates, researchers, and activists, Sex Work Today is the first compilation of research on new forms of digital sex such as camming, sugar dating, and AI sex dolls. Providing a lens to understand contemporary labor dynamics and the nature of sex work itself, this collection captures formerly ignored aspects of the sex industry including: fatphobia and disability; transmasculine and nonbinary sex workers; racialized emotional labor in the digital sex industry; high job satisfaction among professional dominatrixes; and sex worker scholars. With federal policies ostensibly aimed at combating sex trafficking-affecting all sex workers-understanding this industry is more vital than ever. Decentering Western, white, cisgender voices, Sex Work Today underscores the global repercussions of these misaligned policies, which make sex work more challenging and less safe, and provides valuable insights for those seeking to shape policies, challenge prejudices, and foster a safer and more equitable world for all.

人種、ジェンダー、福祉の政治
Whitesell, Anne M., Living Off the Government?: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare. 320 pp. 2024:11 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-261>
ISBN 978-1-4798-2856-2 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-2858-6 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00

Explores the ways welfare recipients lack adequate political representation Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policymakers, pundits, and activists following the massive economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anne Whitesell takes up this timely debate, showing us how our welfare system, in its current state, fails the people it is designed to serve. From debates over stimulus check eligibility to the uncertain future of unemployment benefits, Living Off the Government? tackles it all. Examining welfare rules across eight different states, as well as 19,000 state and local interest groups, Whitesell shows how we determine who is-and who isn't-deserving of government assistance. She explores racial and gender stereotypes surrounding welfare recipients, particularly Black women and mothers; how different groups take advantage of these harmful stereotypes to push their own political agendas; and how the interests and needs of welfare recipients are inadequately represented as a result. Living Off the Government? highlights how harmful stereotypes about the race, gender, and class of welfare recipients filter into our highly polarized political arena to shape public policy. Whitesell calls out a system that she believes serves special interests and not the interests of low-income Americans.

Whatcott, Jess, Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics. 248 pp. 2024:9 (Duke U. Pr., US) <725-264>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2651-8 hard ¥23,101.- (税込) US$ 102.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3075-1 paper ¥6,046.- (税込) US$ 26.95

In Menace to the Future, Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability institutions and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstrating how the legacy of those ideas continues to shape incarceration and detention today. Whatcott focuses on California, examining records from state institutions and reform organizations, newspapers, and state hospital museum exhibits. They reveal state confinement, coercive treatment, care neglect, and forced sterilization was done out of the belief that the perceived unfitness of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people was hereditary, and thus posed a biological threat-a so-called "menace to the future." Whatcott uncovers a history of disabled resistance to these institutions that predates disability rights movements, builds a genealogy of resistance, and tells a history of eugenics from below. Theorizing how what they call "carceral eugenics" informed state treatment of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people a century ago, Whatcott shows not only how that same logic still exists in secure treatment facilities, state prisons, and immigration detention centers, but also why it must continue to be resisted.

Moran, Rachel Louise, Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America. 280 pp. 2024:10 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-286>
ISBN 978-0-226-83579-2 hard ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

A powerful look at the changing cultural understanding of postpartum depression in America. "If you begin to feel at all depressed," the famous pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock advised new mothers, "go to a movie, or to the beauty parlor, or to get yourself a new hat or dress." Such was the medical expertise on postpartum depression in the postwar United States. For much of the twentieth century, postpartum depression-and, more broadly, postpartum mental illness-had not been considered a fit subject for public discussion or even psychological discourse, let alone political action. But that was about to change. In Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America, Rachel Louise Moran explores the history of the naming and mainstreaming of postpartum depression. The push to define and diagnose postpartum is owed in part to the feminist women's health movement, but it emerged as an independent grassroots force. Coalitions of maverick psychiatrists, psychologists, and women who themselves had survived substantial postpartum distress fought to legitimize and normalize women's experiences. They emphasized that postpartum depression is an objective and real illness, even as it became politicized alongside other fraught medical and political battles over women's health. Based on insightful oral histories and in-depth archival research, Blue reveals a secret history of American motherhood, women's political activism, and the rise of postpartum depression advocacy amid an often censorious conservative culture. By breaking new ground with the first book-length history of postpartum mental illness in the 20th century, Moran brings mothers' battles with postpartum depression out of the shadows and into the light.

社会運動と法－Black Lives Matterと#MeTooについて語る
Inniss, Lolita Buckner / Crawford, Bridget J. (eds.), Social Movements and the Law: Talking about Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. 281 pp. 2024:11 (U. California Pr., US) <725-396>
ISBN 978-0-520-38516-0 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-38517-7 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are two of the most prominent twenty-first-century social movements in the United States. On the ground and on social media, more people have taken an active stance in support of either or both movements than almost any others in the country's history. Social Movements and the Law brings together the voices of twelve scholars and public intellectuals to explore how Black Lives Matter and #MeToo unfolded-separately and together-and how they enrich, inform, and complicate each other. Structured in dialogues and punctuated with informative text boxes, illustrations, and discussion questions, this accessible guide to an increasingly influential area of the law centers rich intersectional analysis of both movements and prompts readers to undertake further reflection and conversation. At a time of heightened public attention to the broader scholarly study of human social behavior and interaction, this book shows rather than tells how people with different perspectives can engage one another with open minds and a generosity of spirit.

Hills, Darrius D'wayne, A Misrepresented People: Manhood in Black Religious Thought. (Religion and Social Transformation) 216 pp. 2025:1 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-131>
ISBN 978-1-4798-2328-4 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-2329-1 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Oladi, Samaneh, Women, Faith, and Family: Reclaiming Gender Justice through Religious Activism. 252 pp. 2024:8 (U. California Pr., US) <725-144>
ISBN 978-0-520-40044-3 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40045-0 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Women, Faith, and Family takes an insider look at the practices adopted by the Women's Islamic Coalition, an assembly of Iranian women who embrace their faith as a principal component of their pursuit of gender justice. By using the Coalition's activism as a lens through which to view women's legal status, Samaneh Oladi examines complex questions about the extent of female agency, showing how Muslim women's access to religious resources and use of hermeneutics strengthens their position in gender negotiations. Female religious activists not only struggle against gender hierarchy and conventional paradigms but also cultivate a unique women's jurisprudence that challenges both Western liberalism and religious orthodoxy. Oladi provides a nuanced portrait of Iranian women's activism and their attempts to reform their legal status, challenging deep-rooted assumptions in secular feminism that there is an intrinsic discord between women's agency and their religion.

Yuran, Noam, The Sexual Economy of Capitalism. (Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times) 240 pp. 2024:10 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-181>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3027-7 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4073-3 paper ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00

Economics has long modeled its theories on bakers and butchers rather than husbands, wives, lovers, and prostitutes. This book argues that exchanges involving sex and intimacy, far from being external or exceptional in relation to the workings of the economy, come closest to the reality of capitalist money. Undertaking an inquiry into the sexual economy of capitalism, Noam Yuran analyzes the erotic and gendered meanings that suffuse basic economic concepts, from money to the commodity. It is not entirely true, Yuran shows, that in capitalism everything has its price. In fact, the category of things money cannot buy, including love, forms a central axis around which capitalist economic life is organized. It is inscribed on goods and economic motivations and conduct, and distinguishes capitalism from precapitalist economies in which marriage was an exchange and wives were owned. In conversation with psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and the heterodox tradition of economic thought, this book maps the erotic dimension of capitalism onto concrete economic questions around money, goods, private property, and capital. Yuran offers readers a powerful understanding of capitalism in its unique articulation of love, sex, and money.

Jelusic, Iva, Gender and World War II in the Yugoslav Media. (Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe) 300 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-1001>
ISBN 978-1-03-260542-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book analyzes how the cultural memory of women's participation in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle (1941-1945), especially female soldiers, was treated in socialist Yugoslavia's popular printed press, and how it contributed to the creation of the figure of the Yugoslav New Woman.By examining the published work of four magazines, this volume aims to reveal the variety of understanding of women's previously unparalleled level of wartime engagement and its relevance for creating the conditions for the emergence and development of the New Woman in socialist Yugoslavia. The book delves into the roles and societal impact of these women as portrayed in the printed press from the end of World War II until the watershed moment of socialist Yugoslavia's history, Tito's death in 1980.This book is aimed at students, scholars, and researchers interested in women's and gender history in state socialist countries. Its examination of print magazines, an understudied aspect of Yugoslav media, will also be of interest to media and communication researchers.

Huhndorf, Shari M., Native Lands: Culture and Gender in Indigenous Territorial Claims. 218 pp. 2024:8 (U. California Pr., US) <725-1028>
ISBN 978-0-520-40017-7 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40018-4 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Native Lands analyzes the role of visual and literary culture in contemporary Indigenous campaigns for territorial rights. In the post-1960s era, Indigenous artists and writers have created works that align with the goals and strategies of new Native land-based movements. These works represent Native histories and epistemologies in ways that complement activist endeavors, while also probing the limits of these political projects, especially with regard to gender. The social marginalization of Native women was integral to dispossession. And yet its enduring consequences have remained largely neglected, even in Native organizing, as a pressing concern associated with the status of Indigenous people in settler nation-states. The cultural works discussed in this book provide an urgent Indigenous feminist rethinking of Native politics that exposes the innate gendered dimensions of ongoing settler colonialism. They insist that Indigenous campaigns for territorial rights must entail gender justice for Native women.

Shirinian, Tamar, Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia. 280 pp. 2024:11 (Duke U. Pr., US) <725-1040>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2687-7 hard ¥23,549.- (税込) US$ 104.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3111-6 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95

In Survival of a Perverse Nation, Tamar Shirinian traces two widespread rhetorics of perversion-sexual and moral-in postsocialist Armenia, showing how they are tied to anxieties about the nation's survival. In her fieldwork with Armenians, Shirinian found that right-wing nationalists' focus on sexual perversion centers the figure of the homosexual, while questions of moral perversion surround oligarchs and other members of the political economic elite. While the homosexual is seen as non- or improperly reproductive, the oligarch's moral deviations from the caring and paternalistic expectations associated with national leadership also endanger Armenia's survival. Shirinian shows how both figures threaten the nation's proper social reproduction, a source of great anxiety for a nation whose primary point of identity is surviving genocide. In the existential threat posed by these forms of perversion Shirinian finds paths where non-survival might mean the creation of futures that are queerer and more just. Detailing how the language of perversion offers trenchant critiques of capitalism as a perversion of life, Shirinian presents a new queer theory of political economy.

Yates-Doerr, Emily, Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm. 267 pp. 2024:11 (U. California Pr., US) <725-1042>
ISBN 978-0-520-40442-7 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Mal-Nutrition documents how maternal health interventions in Guatemala are complicit in reproducing poverty. Policymakers speak about how a critical window of biological growth around the time of pregnancy-called the "first 1,000 days of life"-determines health and wealth across the life course. They argue that fetal development is the key to global development. In this thought-provoking and timely book, Emily Yates-Doerr shows that a focus on prenatal health is a paradigmatic technique of American violence through which the control of mothering serves to control the reproduction of privilege and power. Presenting the powerful stories of Guatemalan scientists, midwives, and mothers, she illustrates their efforts to counter the harms of mal-nutrition, offering a window into a form of nutrition science and policy that encourages collective nourishment and fosters reproductive cycles in which women, children, and their entire communities can flourish.

感受性の歴史－グローバルな啓蒙思想におけるジェンダー、人種、他者性のビジョン
Burdiel, Isabel / Garcia Moscardo, E. / Serrano, E. (eds.), Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Otherness in the Global Enlightenment. (Interdisciplinary Research in Gender) 338 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-1052>
ISBN 978-1-03-237336-2 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical and plural character of sensibility in the global Enlightenment.From Tahiti, to New Orleans to the Mariana Islands; to Lima, Geneva, London, Oviedo, or Venice, the book investigates how sensibility was brandished by different ethnical, political, and cultural groups to define their identities; how cross-cultural and cross-chronological encounters reconfigured ideas of gendered selves; how sexuality was used to empower or subjugate non-European ethnicities and how the circulation of local concepts of the physiology of emotions and taste reinforced or challenged hegemonic ideas of masculinity and femininity.With a primary focus on Southern Europe and the Hispanic World, areas still not well-charted, this edited collection explores the varied forms in which notions of sensibilities circulated within Europe and between Europe, the Americas, and the Hispanic-Asian Pacific, questioning normative and diffusionist views.Histories of Sensibilities is aimed at postgraduate students and scholars researching histories of literature and science, cultural studies, history of emotions, gender studies, and women's history; as well as scholars of Hispanic Studies, Latin-America Studies, and European Studies.

Carney, Christina J., Disreputable Women: Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego. (New Sexual Worlds 3) 304 pp. 2025:1 (U. California Pr., US) <725-1057>
ISBN 978-0-520-39508-4 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-39509-1 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Disreputable Women is a deeply transdisciplinary study of how black women use sex work and place making to claim economic, bodily, and sexual autonomy in a militarized city that is intent on displacing and caging them. Christina Jessica Carney distills the production of these "disreputable women" during two major twentieth-century urban-development processes in downtown San Diego, where municipal police, public health officials, and even activists designated street-involved sex workers and the places they congregated as blight. Carney documents how some black women reconceptualize the public and private spheres by using residential hotels and multiuse commercial spaces for housing and work, controlling their erotic economies and their sexual-cultural lives. She marks how discrete and explicit intellectual, economic, and political practices by black women complicate a dominant understanding of red-light areas and black sex workers as undesirable contaminators who must be "cleaned out." Instead, her intuitive framework of "disreputability" offers a more ethical and workable approach to imagining the built environment and its inhabitants-developing a rich and robust grammar for understanding black women's lives in the scene of militarization and gendered anti-blackness.

Eng, Chris A., Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America. (Sexual Cultures) 312 pp. 2025:2 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-1067>
ISBN 978-1-4798-3465-5 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-3466-2 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Illuminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violence Extravagant Camp takes as its point of critical departure the multiple valences of the word "camp": the camp, as a geopolitical space and process of concentrating racialized populations, and the campy as a mode of queer expressiveness. Engaging its double meaning, Chris A. Eng explores how camp and encampment have contoured the figure of the Asian American. The book follows campy performances that imaginatively restage the camps that have been central to dominant narratives of Asian American history: Chinese railroad labor, Japanese American incarceration, Vietnam War refugee resettlement, and counterinsurgency camps across US imperial entanglements in the Philippines. Illuminating an eclectic ensemble of performances that grapple with Asian American history-from classical works in the Asian American literary tradition to emerging works of theater and film-Extravagant Camp uncovers Asian American camp as a prevalent yet underappreciated cultural strategy for contesting accounts of Asian American racialization that overly rely on terms of abjection. Theorizing Asian American camp as both a performance strategy and reading practice, Eng examines how artists drag up the maligned racial roles of the coolie, the internee, the refugee, and the diva to make different sense of these histories. Extravagant Camp shows how Asian American camp takes on queerness as a resource to enliven modes of joy, beauty, and pleasure within structures of constraint, revealing the types of power camp retrieves for racialized communities in the face of abjection. Geared toward the extravagant, Asian American camp demands a recognition of queer abjection not as the basis for our undoing, but rather the grounds for a more radical social remaking.

Guzman, Joshua Javier, Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style. (Minoritarian Aesthetics) 256 pp. 2024:11 (New York U. Pr., US) <725-1072>
ISBN 978-1-4798-1282-0 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-1283-7 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

How the queer Chicano punks of post-1960s Los Angeles developed a unique politics of style In this groundbreaking work, Joshua Javier Guzman explores the queer punk and Chicano/Latino avant-garde art scenes in post-1968 Los Angeles from the rise of Ronald Reagan to the height of the AIDS epidemic. He demonstrates how style-as a cultural form and sensibility-becomes essential to Latino politics at the moment the utopian impulses of the 1960s begin to fade. Guzman uncovers how queer Latinos in Los Angeles used performance, underground media, experimental art, and literature to interrogate the limits of Chicano nationalism and the burgeoning politics of gay liberation. These subcultural forms give rise to a theory of what he calls "stylized discontent," expressed as nausea, lo-fi, ambivalence, and malaise. Each chapter of the book is framed by a specific stylized discontent, demonstrating how they were repurposed by queer punk Latinos as responses to the AIDS crisis and the rise of neoliberalisms. Dissatisfactions highlights the middle ranges of political agency strategically utilized by queer racialized historical actors to underscore how negative feelings become instrumental to social change. Revealing new forms of activism and art that continue to structure the way we understand systemic violence and survival, Dissatisfactions insists on the significance of both the politics of style and the different styles politics may take.

Nash, Jennifer C., How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory. (Black Feminism on the Edge) 152 pp. 2024:8 (Duke U. Pr., US) <725-1098>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2623-5 hard ¥21,305.- (税込) US$ 94.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3046-1 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95

In How We Write Now Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to stay close to the field's central object and preoccupation: loss. She demonstrates how contemporary Black feminist writers and theorists such as Jesmyn Ward, Elizabeth Alexander, Christina Sharpe, and Natasha Trethewey mobilize their prose to ask readers to feel, undo, and reassemble themselves. These intimate invitations are more than a set of tools for decoding the social world; Black feminist prose becomes a mode of living and feeling, dreaming and being, and a distinctly affective project that treats loss as not only paradigmatic of Black life but also an aesthetic question. Through her own beautiful writing, Nash shows how Black feminism offers itself as a companion to readers to chart their own lives with and in loss, from devastating personal losses to organizing around the movement for Black lives. Charting her own losses, Nash reminds us that even as Black feminist writers get as close to loss as possible, it remains a slippery object that troubles memory and eludes capture.