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

フェミニスト社会学とは何か？
Reger, Jo, What is Feminist Sociology? 192 pp. 2024:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <730-817>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5561-1 hard ¥14,003.- (税込) US$ 64.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-5562-8 paper ¥4,947.- (税込) US$ 22.95

What does it mean to say that there is a feminist sociology? And how might we engage the full potential of a "feminist sociological imagination"? These questions lie at the heart of Jo Reger's slim guide to a powerful tool which has a long history in US sociology and yet remains as urgently needed as ever. Grounded in a need to change both society and the discipline, feminist sociology challenges the foundations of traditional social science and articulates new ways of creating knowledge, doing research, and understanding the role of researchers and the people they study. Drawing on concepts such as positionality and reflexivity, and emphasizing the importance of feminist ethics, emotions, activism, and transformation, this concise book traces out what it means to engage in feminist sociology and to claim the identity of a feminist sociologist.

Abreu-Torres, Dania / Blanco-Cano, Rosana et al., Latinidad and Film: Queer and Feminist Cinema in the Americas. 143 pp. 2024:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <730-843>
ISBN 978-3-031-56117-7 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book provides an analysis of Latinidad in Latin American and U.S. Latinx films by women and/or LGBTQ directors from 1991 to 2016. Challenging traditional notions of gender roles, family, and national identities, it discusses how film directors are broadening the canon and producing provocative work that challenges the boundaries of identity. Utilizing a feminist and queer lens, this book is intended to demonstrate the dynamic interactions between individual agency, choices, and freedom from the communities represented. The book's organization in three parts reflects a common core of the Latin American and U.S. Latinx experiences, unifying all these films in the hope of creating a better understanding of these geographical regions and their people.

Bellieni Zimmermann, Flavia, Honour Consciousness, Religion and Gender: Brazilian and Pakistani Lived Experiences in Australia. (International Comparative Social Studies 60) 276 pp. 2024:11 (Brill, NE) <730-91>
ISBN 978-90-04-71123-5 hard ¥30,366.- (税込) EUR 129.00

The book explains how honour consciousness shapes the lives of Brazilian and Pakistani women in their countries of origin, and the relationship between honour, religion and gender highlighting the question: is honour consciousness experienced differently by men and women? In this book, I explore how lived experiences of honour consciousness and religion in Brazil and Pakistan are hybridised and operate on a spectrum and are manifested through gender power relations and demonstrated through "moderate" and "extreme" notions of honour consciousness, and how these are transmitted to Australia. These concepts give a new epistemological perspective to the use of Hegel and Foucault within gender studies.

Gordon, Lesley J. / Huebner, Andrew (eds.), Race and Gender at War: Writing American Military History. 296 pp. 2024:10 (U. Alabama Pr., US) <730-919>
ISBN 978-0-8173-2211-3 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8173-6168-6 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Fresh perspectives on the implications of gender and race in US military history from a diverse group of scholars in the field of war and society.

Cleves, Rachel Hope, Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex. 288 pp. 2024:11 (Wiley, US) <730-944>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5363-1 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00

We take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplant emoji and a suggestive wink. But why does it feel so natural for us to link food and sexual pleasure? Rachel Hope Cleves explores the long association between indulging in good food and an appetite for naughty sex, from the development of the Parisian restaurant as a place for men to meet with prostitutes and mistresses, to the role of sexual outlaws like bohemians, new women, lesbians and gay men in creating epicurean culture in Britain and the United States. Taking readers on a gastronomic journey from Paris and London to New York, Chicago and San Francisco, Lustful Appetites reveals how this preoccupation changed the ways we eat and the ways we are intimate-while also creating stigmas that persist well into our own twenty-first century.

Hofman, Elwin / Rodriguez Garcia, M. / Vanhees, P. (eds.), The Business of Pleasure: A History of Paid Sex in the Heart of Europe. 182 pp. 2024:9 (Leuven U. Pr., BE) <730-953>
ISBN 978-94-6270-410-7 paper ¥7,700.- (税込) EUR 25.00

First English-language book on the history of commercial sex in BelgiumIn 2022, the Belgian parliament made a landmark decision by approving the decriminalisation of sex work. This move positioned the small nation as the first country in Europe - and the second globally - to abandon the hypocrisy of tolerance. But this was not the first time paid sex in Belgium gained international notoriety. The medieval bathhouses and 'frows of Flanders' were well-known throughout Europe. In the nineteenth century, Belgium faced international outrage as the alleged epicentre of white slavery. Yet while Belgians were accused of forcing white women into prostitution, they were left alone when it came to the inclusion of any suspect woman in the prostitution registers of colonial Congo. Throughout the First and Second World Wars, both allied and German soldiers sought relief in Belgian brothels. The Business of Pleasure presents the compelling life stories of sex workers and their interactions with authorities, clients and pimps. Transcending stereotypes, this history of commercial sex offers a nuanced understanding of the difficulties and opportunities associated with paid sex for women, men and trans persons past and present.Contributors: Elwin Hofman (Utrecht University), Magaly Rodriguez Garcia (KU Leuven), Pieter Vanhees (former researcher KU Leuven), Jelle Haemers (KU Leuven), Amandine Lauro (Universite libre de Bruxelles), Maarten Loopmans (KU Leuven), Ilias Loopmans (MA history student at University of Antwerp), Sonia Verstappen (former sex worker).

Hoiland, Sarah L., Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club. 193 pp. 2025:1 (Temple U. Pr., US) <730-954>
ISBN 978-1-4399-2592-8 hard ¥19,296.- (税込) US$ 89.50
ISBN 978-1-4399-2593-5 paper ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95

A righteous sister identifies herself as a biker. She might wrench, or maintain, her own bike, and she prefers to ride with other righteous sisters. Righteous Sisterhood is Sarah Hoiland's insightful ethnography about an all-women motorcycle club (MC). She recounts stories of women bikers for whom riding in an MC is "an act of rebellion" and "liberating" even as it constrains-a reactionary populist version of the American Dream dipped in "girl power." Granted unprecedented access to the MC's initiation rituals, annual ceremonies, and the extensive socialization process, Hoiland investigates this fascinating subculture, why women choose to join, and why, in some cases, they exit or become exiled.Righteous Sisterhood also reveals complex and contradictory gender and political dynamics within the club and within the larger subculture. The MC provides a unique, liberatory, womanist space within the larger male-dominated MC social world, but these women remain outsiders, with political voices that are lost in the misogyny of alt-right spaces. As Hoiland emphasizes, the quest for righteous sisterhood is about finding individual excellence and camaraderie while seeking recognition and immortality within the MC.

Kogl, Alexandra, Grey Sex: Heterosexuality and Everyday Domination. 244 pp. 2024:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <730-955>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5887-2 hard ¥14,003.- (税込) US$ 64.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-5888-9 paper ¥4,947.- (税込) US$ 22.95 *

Grey sex is saying "yes" but thinking "no." It's feeling invisible, like you're not even in the room. It's wondering afterwards, "is that really what I wanted?" or "did I just let that happen?" Many people have sexual experiences that fall into a grey area between assault and "normal" sex. Looking at heterosexuality and everyday domination, this book shows that, in doing so, we are neither simply victims nor failing to assert ourselves. We are caught in relations of gendered power that may be hard to name or that may, in a world filled with violence, not seem worth mentioning. Tempting as it is to blame individuals for grey sexual experiences, Kogl argues that we can't make sense of the power at work if we remain stuck in self-blame or point the finger at perpetrators. The personal is still political: the most intimate activities are both shaped by and shapers of unjust sexual hierarchies. Grey Sex walks us through the shadowy places between good and bad sex. With compelling insight into power relations that shape ambiguous sexual experiences and our sense of freedom, it is a valuable read for people interested in sexual intimacy and relationships, gender-based violence, and inequality.

Lindsay, Jenny, Hounded: Women, Harms and the Gender Wars. 200 pp. 2024:10 (Polity Pr., UK) <730-956>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6362-3 hard ¥14,003.- (税込) US$ 64.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-6363-0 paper ¥4,301.- (税込) US$ 19.95

The last decade has seen countless cases of women being fired, disciplined, protested or no-platformed for their views on sex and gender. Whether high-profile celebrities or previously unknown feminists, such women's vocal non-belief in 'gender identity' as a universal human condition bears a high social cost. These 'houndings' are often presented starkly, clinically, in headlines or fleeting social media moments, stripped of the true cost of holding such beliefs.But what is the reality behind the headlines and noise? What are the true consequences of holding - and living with - such seemingly now-heretical thoughts?Hounded charts the often hidden and unspoken harms women face for prioritising and defending sex-based language and rights. Outlining the often-bewildering array of tactics used by opponents against such women, as well as the resilience required to refuse to be silenced, Lindsay presents a compelling argument for recognition of the individual and social harms that are being enacted under the auspices of 'gender identity activism.' This debut non-fiction book by award-winning poet and essayist Jenny Lindsay, whose own 'hounding' offers a unique perspective, is a solid, sane, witty but also compassionate account about the very human cost of this extraordinary cultural and political schism.

Olid, Bel, The Pocket Guide to Feminism: A Survival Kit. 150 pp. 2024:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <730-958>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6472-9 hard ¥10,769.- (税込) US$ 49.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-6473-6 paper ¥2,791.- (税込) US$ 12.95

A woman's life is different. This is clear when a stranger's catcall makes her feel targeted in the street. When politicians make off-the-cuff sexist remarks. When media commentators wade in with their condemnation of free, unrestricted abortion. When a father is praised to the skies for attending parents' evening while the mother's attendance is taken for granted. When they fire her because she's pregnant. When they dismiss her medical symptoms as anxiety. To counter sexism today, we need to learn the art of self-defence. Today feminism is more alive and more necessary than ever because discrimination against women has become more subtle and difficult to detect, yet it retains its paralysing power.With combative energy and acerbic wit, Bel Olid explains the key concepts of the current feminist struggle in a smart, radical and often counterintuitive way.

Petoe, Andrea / Thissen, Laeticia / Clavaud, A. (eds.), A New Gender Equality Contract for Europe: Feminism and Progressive Politics. 142 pp. 2024:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <730-959>
ISBN 978-3-031-59992-7 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book, supported by FEPS and Fondation Jean-Jaures, centres on the work of contemporary progressive feminist thinkers and the idea that there is no democracy without gender equality. The authors develop the concept of a feminism that works for everyone - regardless of their gender, social or cultural identity - in the context of EU policy. The book features gender experts with multidisciplinary backgrounds from across Europe, providing a comprehensive exploration of efforts to move away from "gender backlash" rhetoric and towards a new gender contract for a fairer, more equal European Union.

Phelps, Katherine A., Digital Girlhoods. 256 pp. 2025:1 (Temple U. Pr., US) <730-960>
ISBN 978-1-4399-2580-5 hard ¥23,823.- (税込) US$ 110.50
ISBN 978-1-4399-2581-2 paper ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95

Tween girls in America today are growing up on social media, posting selfies and sharing "stories." In Digital Girlhoods, Katherine Phelps emphasizes tween girls' agency on social media vis-a-vis identity formation, content creation, and community building. When a tween girl posts a video on YouTube asking the world, "Am I pretty or ugly?", she is also asking, "Who am I?" This content makes visible the pitfalls and potentials of these tweens creating their own digital narratives-and it asks us to take them seriously. Featuring in-depth interviews with a cross section of tween girls, Phelps allows them to give meanings to their relationships with social media and their peers in their own words. As tween girls embody and negotiate the many contradictions of American girlhoods through social media participation (for example, the "Pretty or Ugly" YouTube trend), Phelps asks, how are tween girls living and experiencing girlhoods in the digital age? The processes of experiencing and enacting tweenhood and girlhood online are explicitly gendered. Digital Girlhoods thoughtfully considers what tween girlhoods look and feel like in America today.

Rooney, Padraig, Rebel Angel: The Life and Times of Annemarie Schwarzenbach. 348 pp. 2024:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <730-962>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6629-7 hard ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Annemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she's been largely ignored. Born to a wealthy family in Switzerland, as a teenager she rebelled against her domineering pro-Nazi mother. She immersed herself in the antifascist, queer and artistic circles of the German diaspora of the 1930s. Her edgy glamour and androgynous beauty turned heads in the lesbian nightclubs of Weimar Berlin, on the ski slopes of St. Moritz, and in New York's luxury hotels and jazz bars. Constantly on the move, Annemarie chronicled the low and dishonest decade leading to war through her unique journalism, writing and photography. Her work was as adventurous and uncompromising as her personal life, and reveals a deep courage, intelligence, and ambition tragically curtailed by her untimely death.

中欧・南東欧における女性　1700～1900年
Thanailaki, Polly, Women in Central and Southeastern Europe, 1700-1900: Life, Literacy, and Social Entanglements in a Transnational Setting. 244 pp. 2024:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <730-965>
ISBN 978-3-031-60464-5 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores portraits of significant women living in central and southeastern Europe whose lives and activities remain unknown, uncovering their lifestyles as well as the social entanglements relating to their education. The book also examines transnationality and modernity, arguing that during the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries transculturality as a cultural marker was in contrast with national fallacies. In addition to this, it provides insight into the controversies concerning women's social standing, and it investigates the prevailing social norms, restrictions, and biases that affected their lives. The book draws on a wide range of original printed sources such as school archives, government documents, newspapers, and journals as well as secondary sources of literature.

世界中の女王　1520～1620年
Ze'evi, Dror, Queens Around the World, 1520-1620: A Century of Female Power. 368 pp. 2024:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <730-966>
ISBN 978-3-031-58633-0 paper ¥21,182.- (税込) EUR 89.99

This textbook explores the histories of royal women in Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It argues that by dint of an unprecedented conjunction of historical shifts and powerful personalities, it was these women, and not men, who sat at the helm of global politics; moreover, it was they who in truth steered our world's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity. Organized into chapters devoted to each of the era's great states, the book sets out to challenge several historical premises. First, it shows that women were the actual, if not always formally crowned, sovereigns of these states, or at least played a decisive role in shaping their policies. Second, the book dissolves the conventional dichotomy between East and West, showing that in both Christian Europe and Islamdom, women achieved their high status by means of similar strategies and at similar periods in history. Third, by demonstrating that there was a precedent for female authority long before the first harbingers of the women's movement in the eighteenth century, the book calls into question received ideas about historical progress and the evolution of women's liberation.

〔英訳〕女性に対する戦争
Segato, Rita, The War Against Women. Tr. by R. McGlazer. (Critical South) 282 pp. 2024:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <730-629>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6212-1 hard ¥14,003.- (税込) US$ 64.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-6213-8 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95

Recent decades of neoliberal rule have seen authoritarian turns in many governments, and these decades have also been marked by increasing violence against women. The systematic killing of women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, has given way to a violent surge that is worldwide in its scope, concentrated in places where the state's traditional, sovereign functions have broken down. Femicide is no longer just an intimate event: it has become anonymous and systematic, a crime of power. An intensified form of capitalism, the product of a colonial modernity that is still with us, now fuels new wars on women, which destroy society while targeting women's bodies. Understanding this new, violent turn within patriarchy-which Rita Segato considers the primal form of human domination-means moving patriarchy from the margins to the center of our social analysis. According to Segato, it is only by revitalizing community and repoliticizing domestic space that we can redirect history towards a different destiny. At stake is nothing less than the future of humanity.

Grosso, Sarah, Judging Women's Rights, Gender & Citizenship in Ben Ali's Tunisia. (Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World 22) 280 pp. 2024:12 (Brill, NE) <730-706>
ISBN 978-90-04-71273-7 hard ¥25,894.- (税込) EUR 110.00

Tunisia has often been commended for its progressive stance on women's rights and viewed as a role model for family law reform in the Muslim world. Judging Women's Rights, Gender & Citizenship in Ben Ali's Tunisia weaves together intimate stories and theory to demystify claims that the progressive laws supported gender equality in practice. Through the eyes of citizens and legal professionals, it reveals how women and men experienced their rights under Ben Ali's repressive regime, tracing connections between gender, ethics and the law. This accessibly written book provides a vital backdrop for understanding contemporary debates in Tunisia where women's rights remain a hotly contested topic.

南アフリカにおけるジェンダーに基づく暴力とフェミサイド
Deane, Tameshnie, Gender-Based Violence and Femicide in South Africa. (Gender, Justice and Legal Feminism 5) 226 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <730-455>
ISBN 978-3-031-61052-3 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book presents new perspectives on gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa. It argues that violence against women is a manifestation of unequal gender relations and harmful manifestations of hegemonic masculinity, which are governed by patriarchal beliefs, institutions and systems. It includes chapters on quantitative research that assess not only the levels and determinants of violence against women but also men's attitudes towards gender-based violence, perceptions of violence, the legislative frameworks governing violence against women in South Africa, and the current cases and jurisprudence relating to this scourge. In spite of its focus on South Africa, the book also provides insights for comparative scholars exploring the value of different constitutional articulations of human rights and how they support (or fail to support) efforts to combat violence against women. By assessing recent incidents and responses to gender-based violence, the book provides a view of not only the societal but also jurisprudential opportunities and pitfalls in this area that may be applicable elsewhere. Gender equality and, central to this, the right of women to live lives free of violence, is a precondition for full democratic participation and is a universal goal. Accordingly, the South African experience contributes to a wider understanding of the possibilities and limitations of societal and legal reform in challenging the ubiquity of violence against women. The book is aimed at researchers, practitioners, students, professionals and advocates in the field of gender-based violence.

Anurag, Pinki Mathur / Dwivedy, Santwana (eds.), Violence in Intimate Spaces: Law and Beyond. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 166 pp. 2024:9 (Springer, GW) <730-470>
ISBN 978-981-9726-56-1 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book provides a textured understanding of intimate violence across the unlimited stretch of human relationships, institutions, and social structures. The volume has been conceptualized with the overarching objective to provide the reader with a collection of thoughtfully selected chapters that critically examine existing literature for an in-depth analysis of institutions through the lens of violence, beyond disciplinary and topical boundaries, from a range of methodologies. The book encourages reflections on the complexities of society, its institutions and gendered norms that enmesh violence and intimate relationships. It further examines the socio-normative contexts within which violence operates as a tool for maintaining inequalities in society. The chapters in this volume attempt to address questions such as: What are the complexities in the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim which sustain and legitimize violence? What are the diverse dimensions of violence in intimate relationships? What role does violence in intimate spaces play in preserving status quo and the pervasive gendered hierarchies within society and its institutions? Who is vulnerable to violence and why? The book covers conversations on intimate space violence and relationships that have not been explored hitherto in mainstream academic debates. The volume pivots violence fundamentally as a product of 'entitlements' based on gendered social hierarchies and critical intersectionalities to examine its manifestations in a variety of intimate situations and relationships beyond socio-cultural, religious and geographical boundaries. The book provides invaluable learnings for academics, researchers, students, lawyers, sociologists, social workers, health professionals and policymakers.

Dewey, Susan / VandeBerg, Brittany / Tennant-Caine, Julie, Community-Based Participatory Research with Women in Prison: The Women's Words/Women's Worlds Peer Mentoring Program. (SpringerBriefs in Anthropology) 105 pp. 2024:7 (Springer, GW) <730-477>
ISBN 978-3-031-62585-5 paper ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This innovative work tells the story of a unique partnership between a state prison administration and a team of incarcerated women, prison administrators, researchers, artists, and students known as The WoW Collective due to their joint efforts in developing a peer mentoring program called "Women's Words/Women's Worlds (WoW)." Using the example of WoW, the book provides a guide to doing community-based participatory research (CBPR) with women in prison that takes a collaborative-rather than the typically adversarial-approach to working together toward the goal of transformative social change. This book provides a ground-breaking example of how incarcerated women, prison administrators, researchers, and artists successfully worked together on a community-based project that led to meaningful results in the form of a peer mentoring program designed by women in prison for women in prison. Remaining closely attuned to the ethical dimensions of doing CBPR in a highly structured prison environment, this book provides inspiration to CBPR practitioners who seek to work within the criminal justice system to create real and meaningful change for the better. Co-authored by two criminologists, a senior prison administrator, and the unique collective known as WoW, this book provides both a clear step-by-step CBPR guide and a visionary approach to working with criminal justice practitioners.

Moffett-Bateau, Alex J., Redefining the Political: Black Feminism and the Politics of Everyday Life. 318 pp. 2024:9 (Temple U. Pr., US) <730-549>
ISBN 978-1-4399-2117-3 hard ¥25,764.- (税込) US$ 119.50 *
ISBN 978-1-4399-2118-0 paper ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

Redefining the Political documents the political life of a community of Black women living below the poverty line. Alex Moffett-Bateau spent a year interviewing residents of a public housing development on the far South Side of Chicago about their politics, political communities, and how they create collective power. Moffett-Bateau uses radical Black feminist political theory and develops a framework called the political possible-self, which argues that belonging to a community and developing political imagination foment change. These women employ grassroots efforts to subvert oppressive power structures by protesting institutions within their communities, addressing the benign neglect of their housing development, organizing community art shows and meals, volunteering at local public schools, and holding meetings to increase the political confidence of public-housing tenants by educating them on navigating government bureaucracies. Ultimately, Redefining the Political shows how political engagement at both the individual and community levels can be fruitful for nontraditional political contributions.

De Blasio, Emiliana / Selva, Donatella, Gender and Culture Wars in Italy: A Genealogy of Media Representations. 180 pp. 2024:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <730-555>
ISBN 978-3-031-60109-5 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book examines contemporary culture wars around gender in Italy. Applying methods from European cultural studies, the authors reconstruct the ways in which gender issues have become part of the contemporary culture wars in Italy. Recently the convergence between neoliberalism and populism has emphasised the centrality of gender in the political arena at the global level, as well as its crucial place in the rise of far-right and alt-right formations. By examining the cases of three key debates from the last five years, this book traces the moments, actors, and argumentative strategies that triggered these culture wars around gender issues.

Seibert, Katharina, Who Cares?: Negotiating Gender and Society at Spain's Sickbeds 1930-1948. (Moderne europaeische Geschichte 24) 464 S. 2024:10 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <730-306>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5738-9 hard ¥10,828.- (税込) EUR 46.00

An Spaniens Krankenbetten wurde nicht nur geheilt. Hier wurde Gesellschaft gedacht, gemacht oder unterwandert. Erst die Gruendung einer modernen Republik, dann ein Buergerkrieg, schliesslich die faschistische Franco-Diktatur. Das Verhaeltnis von Staat und Gesellschaft war im Spanien der 1930er und 1940er Jahre umkaempft wie nie zuvor. Das Gesundheitswesen gehoerte zu den Schauplaetzen, auf dem dieses Verhaeltnis ausgehandelt wurde. Verfechter:innen der Privatisierung von Gesundheit stritten mit Befuerworter:innen von wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Ansaetzen, weltliche Krankenpflegerinnen forderten das katholische Pflegemonopol heraus, Aerzt:innen verteidigten ihre hegemoniale Position am Krankenbett gegen ein sich wandelndes Berufsbild. Innerhalb dieser zwanzig Jahre wurde Spanien von tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen Umbruechen erfasst, die sich im Buergerkrieg gewaltvoll zuspitzten. Medizin und Gesundheitswesen wurden dabei zu Arenen jener grossen politisch-sozialen Konflikte, die sich an Auseinandersetzungen ueber Klasse, Geschlecht, Ideologie und Religion entzuendeten. Waehrend die Demokrat:innen die Republik am Krankenbett verteidigten, bauten die Franquist:innen dort ihre Vision des ≫neuen≪ Spaniens auf und legten die Grundsteine fuer fast vierzig Jahre autoritaere Diktatur. Der Band erscheint vollstaendig in englischer Sprache.

L.-P.ダナ他編　女性の企業家精神政策
Dana, Leo-Paul / Chhabra, Meghna (eds.), Women Entrepreneurship Policy: Context, Theory, and Practice. 285 pp. 2024:7 (Springer, GW) <730-333>
ISBN 978-981-9736-06-5 hard ¥40,014.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book focuses on the importance of women's entrepreneurship policy in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The book's contributions demonstrate a link between the nature of policy implications, the various theoretical perspectives used, and whether scholars' policy implications have transformed as the field of women's entrepreneurship study has advanced. The book looks deeper into the reasons why there seems to be a big gap between formal women's entrepreneurship legislation and actual business support services. What can be done to close policy and program gaps? What can government policy do to foster an entrepreneur-friendly environment? What level and form of government intervention in the economy should be to attain this goal? These issues have been hotly debated for a long time, and this book seeks answers to these questions. An institutional approach to analysing government policies is encouraged because macro-level regulations, social norms, and culture influence fostering women's entrepreneurial activities. The book and its contributions draw on gender and institutional theory to recommend policy initiatives and measures to combat the lower entrepreneurship rates among the women population. Researchers and policymakers will benefit significantly from this book since it contains ideas for improving policy measures, the entrepreneurial ecosystem for women, and areas for further research. Women entrepreneurs have different motives and goals than men when starting a business.

Guha, Samapti / Rajesh Kadam, Sanskruti, An Inquiry into Women Representation in Management: A Case Study of Indian Industries. (India Studies in Business and Economics) 254 pp. 2024:6 (Springer, GW) <730-338>
ISBN 978-981-9737-12-3 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book explores the status of women representation in management in Indian industries. Recognizing that women managers are facing barriers in achieving top level of management positions in industries, it adopts unique methodology of involving men and women managers as respondents to understand the key issues of gender diversity, glass ceiling, glass walls, glass cliffs, and gender inequality in the Indian corporate scenario. The book, via its six chapters, explores these key issues through the lens of feminist theories under four dimensions - personal, work, organisational and social - and contains an extensive literature review to understand the root causes of these issues. Secondly, it discusses a pilot study conducted to understand the perspectives about career growth of women managers. Outcome of this pilot study works towards conceptualising factors under four dimensions, mentioned above, influencing women participation in management, and to develop survey tools for further quantitative study. Thirdly, for the empirical analysis, the book employs exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to identify factors under each of these four dimensions; and structure of the relationship between factors and women representation in management is confirmed by the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). This book is beneficial for several stakeholders as it is a multidimensional study. It is useful for the undergraduate and post graduate students and research scholars of management, social sciences (such as economics, gender studies, psychology, political sciences, sociology etc), law, medicine, and engineering. Apart from this, it is also useful for corporate executives, decision makers of corporate governance, women elected representatives, administrators, development practitioners, teachers, legal experts, international agencies like UN who are working on women empowerment, and all those agencies working towards meeting SDG5 goal.

Burke, Megan, Becoming a Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Trans Existence. 164 pp. 2024:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <730-36>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6198-8 hard ¥12,925.- (税込) US$ 59.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-6199-5 paper ¥4,301.- (税込) US$ 19.95

This highly engaging analysis of the contemporary, global social and political landscape of trans antagonisms draws specific attention to ""gender-critical" mobilizations of Simone de Beauvoir's account of becoming a woman in The Second Sex to advance and justify trans exclusionary positions. Through a careful examination and application of Beauvoir's philosophical and political commitments, Becoming a Woman compellingly explores the significance of her notion of becoming as not only affirmative of trans women, but also as an ethical demand to affirm trans possibilities. More than a reply to gender-critical readings of Beauvoir, this book develops an original, Beauvoirian ethics of gender affirmation offering that show why we ought to challenge trans exclusion and anti-trans movements.

El-Badawi, Emran, Female Divinity in the Qur'an: In Conversation with the Bible and the Ancient Near East. 197 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <730-103>
ISBN 978-3-031-61799-7 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This is the first book to examine how pre-Islamic/Late Antique goddesses shaped the Qur'an, including its basic theology and cosmology. Exploring the traces found in the text of cultic veneration to goddesses of Arabia and the Ancient Near East, this book analyses what these traces tell us about female power in late antique Arabia, and how this power changed on the advent of Islam. While recent studies on the Qur'anic God have typically considered the question of divinity separately from gender, this book bridges the gap between these two questions, and is therefore an essential constructive mission. This mission adduces literary and documentary evidence-including recent scholarly revolutions in Syriac literature and Arabian epigraphy-and builds upon the critical insights of preceding studies in conversation with post-biblical and Near Eastern traditions.