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

イギリス帝国における人種とリプロダクション　1660～1840年
Wells, Andrew, Generating Difference: Race and Reproduction in the British Empire, 1660-1840. 392 pp. 2026:1 (Johns Hopkins U. Pr., US) <759-793>
ISBN 978-1-4214-5360-6 paper ¥14,146.- (税込) US$ 64.95

Explores the intersection of racial thought and reproductive science and policy across the British Empire.In Generating Difference, Andrew Wells traces the entwined histories of race, sex, and reproduction in Britain and its empire during the long eighteenth century. Challenging the assumption that the concept of race evolved in the modern era solely through new forms of biological science, Wells argues that older ideas of lineage, sexual reproduction, and bodily difference remained central to how race was understood, categorized, and enforced well into the nineteenth century. From the pages of Enlightenment science to colonial policy in the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Pacific, Wells shows how reproductive sex served as a primary framework for defining human differences. Concepts of identity were written onto bodies-especially those marked as non-white or non-male-through perceived differences in anatomy, fertility, and sexuality, albeit never unproblematically. Whether in debates about slavery, interracial relationships, embryology, or population policy, the reproductive body became the crucible in which ideas about race and sex were forged and maintained. Offering a global scope beyond the Atlantic, including South Asia and the Pacific, and drawing from a wide range of sources-from satire to scientific treatises-Generating Difference brings the scholarship of race and sexuality into direct and compelling conversation. Wells uncovers how deeply reproduction structured imperial ideologies and how the policing of bodies helped naturalize hierarchy, control, and exclusion. At its core, the book reconsiders what made difference "visible" in a period before the dominance of the idea of racial biology.

Guo, Jia, Postfeminism in China: The 'Glow Girl', Aesthetic Labour, and Social Media. 184 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-814>
ISBN 978-1-032-88260-4 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Situated within feminist media and cultural studies, this book examines the everyday aesthetic labour of young middle-class Chinese women and their related social media practices. It also critically contextualises postfeminism within China's paradoxically neoliberal society.Drawing upon in-depth interviews with young middle-class women in China's first-tier cities, the book offers a nuanced feminist understanding of young women's femininities, identities, and subjectivities in contemporary digital China. By analysing the self-making and self-fashioning practices of these women, it contributes critical perspectives to the popular yet contested concept of postfeminism within feminist scholarship. Readers will encounter vivid accounts of young Chinese women's everyday social media experiences, exploring how they navigate beauty cultures and negotiate shifting gender-class norms in urban Chinese society. Furthermore, this book provides valuable insights into the scholarly concept of postfeminism in the unique context of China, shedding light on transnational gendered cultures in today's social media age. Tailored for scholars and students in gender and cultural studies, media studies, and China studies, the book proves especially beneficial for those interested in burgeoning feminist and gender-related research topics in the transnational context of digital China. It also appeals to a broader readership intrigued by digital culture, gender dynamics, and notions of beauty in contemporary Chinese society.

Smeaton, Jason, Nursing Aids at War: The Australian Army Medical Women's Service in the Second World War. (Australian Army History Series) 292 pp. 2026:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-852>
ISBN 978-1-009-74211-5 hard ¥10,314.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99

Nursing Aids at War: The Australian Army Medical Women's Service and the Second World War explores the chronological history of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) and challenges our understanding of servicewomen and gendered work in the Australian Army. Arranged in three parts, the book first introduces the nursing aid and how the Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) became intertwined with the nursing service in the First and Second World Wars. It then investigates disruptions, tensions and controversies faced by the VAD as they transitioned into the AAMWS; in particular, the training schemes for AAMWS to become professionally trained nurses in military hospitals. Lastly, the book explores and challenges representations and reflections of the VAD and AAMWS, including building a national identity separate to practising nurses, and acknowledging their history as largely being forgotten amongst discussion of Australia's wider military history.

フェミニストの倫理学－基礎的概念と現代の諸問題
Edell, Celia / Sabourin, Charlotte (eds.), Feminist Ethics: An Introduction to Fundamental Concepts and Current Issues. 340 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-89>
ISBN 978-1-032-77282-0 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-77283-7 paper ¥11,788.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Feminist Ethics: An Introduction to Fundamental Concepts and Current Issues provides a valuable entry point into one of the most dynamic areas of contemporary philosophy.Moving beyond the rigid boundaries of a canon shaped almost exclusively by white, male thinkers, this volume highlights how feminist ethics rethinks and redefines traditional approaches to moral theory, and helps us navigate pressing questions of our time. Engaging with both theory and praxis, this coursebook features 17 clear and accessible chapters, written by emerging and leading scholars, and appearing in print here for the first time. The chapters:Investigate fundamental approaches to ethics (Kantian ethics, utilitarianism, the ethics of care, Confucianism, ecofeminism, transnational feminism)Propose novel reflections on methodologies, agency, and universalismOffer insights into understanding our bodies, emotions, gender norms, and harmful speechSuggest new ways of thinking about the ethical issues raised by ectogestation, AI, digital discourse, and the unique intersection of sex work and disability.Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, and a glossary is included at the back of the book. The volume constitutes an excellent introduction to the richness and depth of feminist ethics for introductory and advanced students.

Salami, Minna, Feminist Freedom: An African Vision. 252 pp. 2026:3 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <759-931>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8723-2 hard ¥6,523.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In Feminist Freedom, Minna Salami asks: What happens when we consider Africa through a feminist lens-and feminism through an African one? Salami explores these questions through an unflinching and clear-sighted African feminist vision. From African knowledge systems to feminist thought and through postcolonial history, she reveals the matrix of power, identity, patriarchy, and imagination that animates everyday life. She tackles the hardest challenges to the African feminist movement-why feminism matters in Africa, how it relates to Black liberation and global feminism, whether "African feminist" is itself a contradiction-and confronts the backlash that both sparked and stalled its progress. Patriarchy and culture, she shows, can smother feminist fire-but language, history, and soul can reignite it. Braiding social criticism with personal storytelling, Feminist Freedom invites readers to see our past, present, and future from the continent outward and to imagine new horizons of liberation.

Sullivan, Joanna, Women Leading Sustainability: The Feminine Shift. 170 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-984>
ISBN 978-1-041-00859-0 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-97685-3 paper ¥9,725.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99

Women Leading Sustainability: The Feminine Shift spotlights the remarkable contributions of women shaping the future.Through over 50 personal interviews with women leading high-profile organisations, this book reveals emerging trends and highlights innovative strategies uniquely crafted by women. These trailblazing experts and pioneers in EU policymaking are pushing the boundaries of sustainability, offering invaluable insights for a greener, fairer future beyond 2030. Their stories serve as powerful examples to inspire the next generation of young women pursuing careers in sustainability. With a special focus on the women driving impactful decisions within the European Union, this book showcases the effectiveness of female-led sustainability initiatives and the wider movement for change inspired by their actions.It's an empowering resource designed to inspire and uplift future women leaders, as they work toward shaping a more sustainable world, offering powerful lessons to sustainability leaders and young people starting their sustainability careers. The seven strengths that define the feminine shift are now at the centre of future leadership.

Poor, Sara S., The Literary Agency of Medieval Women: Kunigund Niklasin and the Library of St. Catherine's in Nuremberg. 368 pp. 2026:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK)
ISBN 978-0-19-899363-6 hard ¥23,878.- (税込) GB￡ 81.00

What do we miss when we see women's agency only through the lens of transgression? What happens when we expand our notion of authorship to include women who were writing books but not necessarily composing 'original' texts? To answer these questions, Sara Poor explores the writing work of the prolific nun, Kunigund Niklasin (d. 1457), scribe and compiler of at least thirty-one books by the 1450s, and the librarian for her convent's large and singular library (close to 600 German-language manuscripts). Appointed to the office of librarian sometime after the convent underwent observant reform in 1428, Niklasin created two inventories of the convent's books, one of privately owned books, the other of the convent library. The latter was part of a unique manual designed to facilitate table reading, the reading (aloud) that took place during daily meals. The analysis of this table reading manual reveals that there is in fact a wide range of writing activity attributable to women in this period. Building on scholarship about women's literacy, as well as about the connections between women in fifteenth-century reformed convents and what has been called an explosion of literary production in German-speaking areas, The Literary Agency of Medieval Women explores the wider implications of this rich resource for a more inclusive theory of female agency, an expanded notion of authorship, and a nuanced appreciation of the important roles of medieval women as writers--and authors--in the history of the book.

Carson, Andrea (ed.), Women's Pathways to Power: Cracking the Glass Ceiling. (Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics) 192 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-632>
ISBN 978-1-032-84871-6 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Women's Pathways to Power: Cracking the Glass Ceiling provides an interdisciplinary study of the lingering impediments obstructing women's access to power to attain democratic equality, comprising the work of eminent women scholars from diverse fields and regions.This book addresses women's inequality within a world shaped by men, whilst outlining the significant strides in gender equity and presents clear pathways toward achieving equality - highlighting the progress women have made across diverse settings from the Asia Pacific to the Global South - offering bold solutions to shatter the glass ceiling. In documenting both the challenges and achievements in the journey toward women's empowerment, the book makes a significant contribution to the story of women and power in the 21st century. In an era where women have made remarkable strides in education, employment, and politics in democracies, the pervasive gender gaps in key power spheres persist - in politics and leadership, the workplace, and within the home.This book will appeal to scholars and students in disciplines such as politics, sociology, and gender studies, but also to legislators, political leaders, and policy makers looking to understand what is possible and how. It speaks to women, especially women who dare to challenge accepted democratic and societal norms.

ジェンダーと選挙－米国政治の将来を形成する　第5版
Fox, Richard L. / Dittmar, Kelly / Carroll, Susan J. (eds.), Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics. 6th ed. 293 pp. 2026:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-686>
ISBN 978-1-009-68019-6 hard ¥28,006.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-009-68020-2 paper ¥7,956.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99

The sixth edition of Gender and Elections offers a systematic, lively, multi-faceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process through the 2024 elections. This timely, yet enduring, volume strikes a balance between highlighting the most important developments for women as voters and candidates in the 2024 elections and providing a more long-term, in-depth analysis of the ways that gender has helped shape the contours and outcomes of electoral politics in the United States. Individual chapters demonstrate the importance of gender in understanding and interpreting presidential, congressional, and state elections; voter participation, turnout, and choices; the role of social movements in elections; the participation of Black women and Latinas; the political history and success of LGBTQ+ women; the support of political parties and women's organizations; and candidate strategy. Without question, Gender and Elections is the most comprehensive, reliable, and trustworthy resource on the role of gender in electoral politics.

Yoshihara, Susan (ed.), Women, Peace & Security (WPS) in US Security Cooperation. 287 pp. 2025:9 (Lynne Rienner, US) <759-697>
ISBN 979-88-961633-2-9 hard ¥25,047.- (税込) US$ 115.00

Kaur, Manleenjot / Hyunh, Melissa / Singh, Tilottama (eds.), Women in the Technology and Innovation Ecosystem: From Movers to Makers in America. (Women in Industry 4.0) 184 pp. 2026:3 (CRC Pr., US) <759-397>
ISBN 978-1-032-99481-9 hard ¥27,118.- (税込) GB￡ 91.99
ISBN 978-1-032-98539-8 paper ¥14,736.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99

In an increasingly interconnected world, the movement of people across borders has become a common and dynamic part of our global society. This book explores the lives of women expatriates in America, particularly in the technology and innovation industry. It highlights their resilience, adaptability, and pursuit of dreams in unfamiliar lands, while also exploring themes of identity, belonging, and cultural negotiation.Women in the Technology and Innovation Ecosystem: From Movers to Makers in America explores the transformative journey of women relocating to America, focusing on entrepreneurship, leadership, research, education, technology, and innovation. It provides valuable data and case studies, enhancing policies and hiring programs for women entrepreneurs and offering strategies for cultural adaptation and integration in foreign business environments.With the increasing number of women expatriates in America, who are making significant economic and financial contributions, this book serves as a valuable resource for aspiring female expatriates looking to succeed as professionals and entrepreneurs in the United States.

Bates, Trudy, Organizations, Jobs and Gender: Joan Acker's Theory in Practice. (Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies) 122 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <759-422>
ISBN 978-1-032-95813-2 hard ¥15,621.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

Organizations, Jobs and Gender: Joan Acker's Theory in Practice provides a full application of Joan Acker's five gendering processes through an in-depth case study of an Australian trade union. It demonstrates how gendered divisions, cultural images, everyday interactions, and identity work are organized and sustained through a logic of doing duty and being responsible. Drawing on life history interviews and participant observation, the book provides practical guidance on how to operationalize Acker's framework in research, offering clear templates, methodological insights, and strategies for tracing subtle and often taken-for-granted inequalities. Written for scholars, graduate students, and researchers in sociology, gender studies, organization studies, and industrial relations, as well as union practitioners and activists, this book delivers an integrated roadmap for analyzing gender in organizations. Readers will gain the tools to see what is often hidden and to adapt Acker's framework to complex empirical settings. By preserving and extending Acker's legacy, the book advances methodological clarity and provides a foundation for future studies to uncover, challenge, and transform gendering in organizational life.

Cohen Shabot, Sara, Obstetric Violence and the Birthing Body: A Reading from Feminist Philosophy. (Focus on Global Gender and Sexuality) 154 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-47>
ISBN 978-1-032-96459-1 hard ¥15,621.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

Obstetric Violence and the Birthing Body: A Reading from Feminist Philosophy examines the phenomenon of violence against women and birthing subjects during medicalized birth from the viewpoint of diverse fields within feminist philosophy.The phenomenon of obstetric violence-violence and the dehumanizing treatment of laboring women at the hands of medical staff-affects women and birthing persons all over the world, with dreadful consequences. This book argues that obstetric violence is a distinct form of violence against women that cannot be adequately understood simply by labeling it as "gender violence." It demonstrates how violent obstetric practices have been normalized and provides practical guidance for those seeking to influence social policies and create structural change within women's healthcare.Obstetric Violence and the Birthing Body will be of use to women everywhere, health providers, policy makers, and students and researchers in many branches of feminist philosophy as well as other academic disciplines including public health, human rights, welfare, sociology, midwifery, medical anthropology, medical ethics, and law.

Gurusami, Susila, Break the System: Criminalized Black Mothers and the Reproductive Politics of Abolition. 240 pp. 2026:6 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <759-546>
ISBN 978-0-226-84997-3 hard ¥25,047.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84995-9 paper ¥5,227.- (税込) US$ 24.00

Upends the "broken systems" myth and reveals how the law deliberately criminalizes and punishes Black women, inflicting lasting harm on Black communities in the process. The United States has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world, and within our country, Black people are disproportionately imprisoned. Many view this statistic as evidence of a broken system. But sociologist Susila Gurusami argues that the carceral system that so disproportionately harms Black families is not broken at all. In fact, it works just as it was intended. Looking closely at the lives of formerly incarcerated Black mothers, Gurusami shows how state institutions like the criminal-legal, child welfare, and healthcare systems keep Black mothers from their families, harming Black communities in the process. She also reveals how Black women work towards conditions that seem impossible-and even utopian-as part of their everyday mothering labor, but find themselves criminalized for these same actions. Drawing on ethnographic data and interviews with formerly incarcerated Black women in South Los Angeles, Gurusami challenges dominant assumptions about mothering and criminal justice reform. Gurusami finds that, even under the assaults of reproductive warfare, criminalized Black women build networks, practices, and theories of radical care that protect Black maternal life, legacies, and futures. With incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and system-impacted Black mothers at the forefront of the growing movement to abolish prisons and jails, Gurusami demonstrates how their everyday mothering work-what she calls "abolitionist motherwork"-is essential to imagining the end of incarceration and ultimately achieving it. Written with a tender and honest voice, Break the System shares moving vignettes that underscore why we must break the system, rather than reform it, and why we must imagine a future that is radically different than the one we're told we must accept or salvage.

Lopoo, Leonard M., Wanting Children: Family-Planning Policies and the Engineering of America's Population. 176 pp. 2026:6 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <759-270>
ISBN 978-0-226-85014-6 hard ¥25,047.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-85016-0 paper ¥4,356.- (税込) US$ 20.00

On the eugenic origins of US reproductive laws-and the surprising policy changes needed to remedy it. The US government spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to promote and facilitate contraception. Whereas other wealthy countries support broader fertility interventions under the banner of "family planning," the United States remains committed only to helping Americans-and especially poorer Americans-plan not to have a family. In an unflinching treatise on one of the century's defining social issues, Leonard M. Lopoo shows how the US's asymmetric reproductive approach is a vestige of the country's earlier sins: America's first reproductive policies were authored by the some of the twentieth century's most prominent eugenicists, a group whose primary goal was birth prevention among lower economic classes and racial minorities. These origins have consequently created a contradictory position for the country today, in which contraception for the lowest-income Americans is subsidized, while many upper-class Americans employ technologies to have children with preferable traits. Lopoo recasts this personal and politicized topic in elegant, stark terms. If the United States is to legislate reproduction, the only defensible approach is equity: helping people who want children to have children. Wanting Children posits a new and elevating criterion for how we think about fertility in the twenty-first century.

Tang, Ling, Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age. (Labor and Technology) 224 pp. 2026:5 (MIT Pr., US) <759-299>
ISBN 978-0-262-05188-0 paper ¥10,890.- (税込) US$ 50.00

Bridges, Khiara M., Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans. 320 pp. 2026:3 (MIT Pr., US) <759-321>
ISBN 978-0-262-05155-2 hard ¥7,176.- (税込) US$ 32.95

An unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in reproductive healthcare in the US and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substandard care. From a leading expert on race, class, maternal health, and reproductive rights. Racism in maternal healthcare is not reserved for the poor. An unsparing picture of inequities in prenatal care and childbirth in the US, Expecting Inequity reveals that not only are Black people three-to-four times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause, but racial disparities in maternal mortality persist across income levels. That is, wealthier Black people are much more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period than their white counterparts. Focusing on a San Francisco obstetrics clinic that caters to the affluent, Khiara Bridges looks at the choices around prenatal care and childbirth that class-privileged, pregnant Black people are making in order to survive what has been called the 'Black maternal health crisis.' Bridges, whose previous work exposed how race and racism are embedded in maternal healthcare for the poor, draws upon two years of participant-observation to show how wealthier Black people try to leverage their class privilege to avoid some of the negative effects of their Blackness only to discover that in a country that has never reckoned with its horrific racial past, there is no escaping racism s reach. Throughout the book, engaging, heartbreaking, infuriating stories of women s experiences with pregnancy and prenatal care illustrate how race and racism matter regardless of wealth or status.

日本における前立腺の健康、エイジング、社会
Castro-Vazquez, Genaro, Prostate Health, Ageing and Society in Japan: A Gaze of Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and the Male Body. (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness) 194 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-322>
ISBN 978-1-041-04714-8 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This ethnographic investigation of prostate health in the super-aged, Japanese society analyses prostate cancer and benign prostate hyperplasia. Castro-Vazquez examines how biomedical perspectives link prostate health to ethnicity and lifestyle choices, where a clinical issue renders a social matter, and early detection and prevention becomes an individual responsibility.Grounded in symbolic interactionism, the book presents the viewpoints of Japanese urologists, and men who navigate prostate conditions from an eclectic and multidimensional perspective. It explores the impact of 'Westernised' eating habits, ethnicity, gender and sexuality on prostate health, while critically analysing health economics, through medical, pharmaceutical, and insurance industries that commodify men's health. The research introduces the concept of 'onco-self' to fathom how Japanese men journey prostate health, highlighting how their embodied experiences connect. It contributes significant insights to global debates on benign prostate hyperplasia, and prostate cancer prevention, detection, and treatment.An essential resource for scholars, researchers and students in medical sociology, gender and sexuality studies, medical anthropology, Japanese studies as well as those interested in gender, sexuality, sociology of health, and the body and society.

Linden, Lisa / Nicholls, Emily Jay / Persdotter, J. (eds.), Health Activism and Sexual Politics: Feminist Engagements with Health, Illness and the Body. (Routledge Research in Gender and Society) 276 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-339>
ISBN 978-1-032-33481-3 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Health Activism and Sexual Politics: Feminist Engagements with Health, Illness and the Body explores the intersection of health activism and sexual politics through both traditional research chapters and innovative contributions on creative and scholarly practice as activism.The book showcases the analytical power of feminist research at the intersection of sexuality, health, and activism. As digital technologies create new possibilities and challenges for politics, sex, and health interventions, the contributors demonstrate diverse ways to engage meaningfully with activism. Spanning Latin America, Southern Africa, Northern Europe, the UK, and North America, the collection offers alternative epistemologies to hegemonic biomedical knowledge about illness, pleasure, pain, and marginalization. The interdisciplinary approach incorporates feminist technoscience studies alongside perspectives from medical humanities, sexuality studies, gender studies, design, and drama studies. Each chapter challenges inequities and reimagines possibilities for health and well-being through collective action, creative engagement, and scholarly inquiry. Together, they insist on recognizing the multiplicity of experiences around illness and desire, making knowledge that values lived experiences as communicable, worthy of care, and deserving of recognition.This book will appeal to scholars, students, activists, and artists interested in health, sexual practice, gender, activism, and public engagement.

Smith, Julia / Wenham, Clare, Feminism and COVID-19: How Women Fare in the Face of a Global Crisis. 240 pp. 2026:2 (MIT Pr., US) <759-346>
ISBN 978-0-262-55403-9 paper ¥14,157.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Muchembled, Robert, La sorciere au bucher: fanatisme religieux et antifeminisme. (Histoire) 340 p. 2025:9 (Belles lettres, FR) <759-148>
ISBN 978-2-251-45665-2 paper ¥6,733.- (税込) EUR 26.50

Rodriguez Perez, Reyna Elizabeth / Castro Lugo, D. (eds.), Women, Work and the Care Economy. (Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics) 404 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-187>
ISBN 978-1-041-07370-3 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Women, Work and the Care Economy explores the critical intersection between gender, labor, and caregiving. The book is divided into four sections, encompassing a diverse range of topics. The theoretical section highlights the challenges of integrating intersectionality into feminist economics, emphasizing the sustainability of life as a transformative framework and linking critical feminist economics with common economic practices. Methodologies include qualitative reviews and multiscale analyses of care systems across Europe, Latin America, and the Global South.The second section focuses on gender inequality and the care economy. It examines the impact of unpaid domestic work on labor market participation in OECD countries, the feminization of caregiving for people with disabilities in Mexico, and spatial disparities in access to care services. Using mixed methods like time-use surveys and spatial analyses, the book underscores systemic inequities.The third section examines work and entrepreneurship, exploring feminist identity's influence on entrepreneurial intentions, the pandemic's effects on the unpaid labor division in the U.S., and caregiving's impact on academic careers in Uruguay. Data collection methods include surveys, econometric models, and gender-disaggregated analysis.The final section addresses public policies and proposals. It analyzes shared caregiving responsibilities in Mexico's labor market, the economic effects of caregiving on female-headed households during COVID-19, and the role of agency in reducing gender disparities globally. By highlighting the importance of care work, the central role of women in the economy, and the need for inclusive public policies, the book seeks to sensitize the wider public to persistent inequalities and how these can be challenged and transformed.

Silver, Erin (ed.), Art and Feminisms: Histories, Methods, and Legacies. (Routledge Research in Gender and Art) 406 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-1136>
ISBN 978-1-032-11798-0 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Through an international cohort of contributors, this book examines the rich and diverse strands of artistic and cultural production from the nineteenth century to the present day that contribute to elastic and ever-expanding histories of feminist art.The contributions facilitate an understanding of the complex histories of feminist art, material, and cultural production both for new and inveterate students and scholars, while complicating feminist art's canonisation by engaging questions and issues of history-writing itself. An implicit concern throughout the volume is how feminist art history has both addressed and, at times, been complicit in its own systems of exclusion. Foregrounding political and social movements and developments in related fields such as critical race studies, Indigenous studies, trans studies, disability studies, and critical ethnic studies in recent decades, this volume looks beyond the canonical lineage of feminist art history toward an expansive view to feminist art's pasts, pitfalls, and potentials. The book also goes beyond the traditional visual arts to consider vernacular and material cultures in our increasingly visually oriented world (which encompasses the social media and citizen journalism accelerated in the COVID era).The book will be of interest to scholars and students working in art history and gender studies.

Clarke, Marcia, Pentecostal Spirituality in Black Female Experience: Endued with Power. (Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology) 184 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-115>
ISBN 978-1-032-95279-6 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book focuses on the Pentecostal experience of African Caribbean women in Britain, paying attention to the influence of Pentecostalism as it is expressed in everyday life. Foregrounding the voices of Black British Pentecostal women, it presents the church not as a haven but as a context of empowerment. Pentecostal spirituality provided Caribbean women of the Windrush generation the spiritual and theological means to re-vision the British realities of racism, sexism, and ecclesial patriarchy. Their Pentecostal expression motivated the women to organize churches as spaces of quiet social activism displayed in the lives of successive generations as they navigate contemporary Britain. Utilizing qualitative research located within the discipline of practical theology, the author considers: What is the nature of the experiential dimension of Pentecostalism in the lives of African Caribbean women? What are the features of African Caribbean spirituality? And how might the lived experience of African Caribbean women contribute to an understanding of Pentecostal spirituality? The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, theology, history, and gender studies.

Deem, Alexandra, The Tradwife Revolution: An Ethnography of Trad Futurism on Social Media. 260 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-1153>
ISBN 978-1-041-09029-8 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-09028-1 paper ¥11,788.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

The Tradwife Revolution: An Ethnography of Trad Futurism on Social Media examines online networks of "tradwives" - women on social media who align themselves with traditional gender roles and homemaking as a revolutionary lifestyle choice in modern times.Through ethnographic fieldwork, the book reveals how binary gender norms and a shared belief that feminism prevents women from embracing their natural femininity unite diverse communities - from secular stay-at-home mothers to Christian wives advocating submission, from homeschoolers to political conservatives. The book introduces the concept of "trad futurism" to analyze how these women navigate the tensions between neoliberalism and neofascist ideologies, using social media to redefine domesticity and femininity while monetizing their traditional lifestyle choices and creating alternative visions of the future.The Tradwife Revolution: An Ethnography of Trad Futurism on Social Media is ideal for students and researchers across social sciences interested in right-wing imaginaries, digital cultures, and contemporary gender politics.

ジェンダーとデジタルメディア－批判的必携
Erguel, Hakan (ed.), Gender and Digital Media: A Critical Companion. 370 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-1155>
ISBN 978-1-032-69009-4 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-67131-4 paper ¥11,788.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Gender and Digital Media: A Critical Companion offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the evolving relationship between gender and digital media.Covering topics such as queer and trans communities online, digital intimacy, feminist approaches to technology, gaming, fandom, digital diaspora, gender and race-based hate in digital spaces, this textbook explores how gender is shaped and represented onscreen and online across intersections of identity, class, race, age, sexuality, and technology. Each chapter opens with a critical overview of a key theme by a leading expert, followed by a short essay from a graduate student that grounds these ideas in concrete, contemporary examples. This layered structure encourages critical thinking and connects theory to lived experience. Designed with pedagogy in mind, the book includes tools and activities that support both independent and collaborative learning.Gender and Digital Media: A Critical Companion is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in gender studies, media studies, cultural studies, and the social sciences exploring human-technology interactions and digital everyday life.

ロシアにおける性労働と移民　1885～1935年
Hetherington, Philippa / Iandolo, Alessandro et al. (eds.), Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885-1935. 342 pp. 2026:7 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <759-1204>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8766-9 hard ¥14,146.- (税込) US$ 64.95

Circulating Subjects investigates the migration of women abroad for sex work from the 1880s through the 1930s, which Russian feminists, liberal jurists, and imperial bureaucrats worked together to define and criminalize this mobility as "white slavery." As Circulating Subjects reveals, white slavery became a powerful tool of border control for the Russian Empire, later the Soviet Union, to play a central role in shaping a global campaign against sex trafficking. Philippa Hetherington explores how a paternalistic desire to protect women underwrote the expansion of state power, linking gender, sexuality, and migration to the broader politics of sovereignty. Through vivid archival research spanning Odessa, Istanbul, and Geneva, she follows the development of Russian and Soviet anti-sex trafficking efforts across legal, diplomatic, and carceral domains. Hetherington draws on police files, consular reports, and the records of early feminist and humanitarian organizations to show how anti-trafficking campaigns, often led by people who considered themselves progressive, ultimately reinforced systems of surveillance and repression. Her framing of the "sex/migration nexus" captures how trafficking became a flexible label used to police the movements of entire populations. Circulating Subjects examines how trafficking was constructed, debated, and institutionalized. Hetherington's account offers critical insight into how moral panic becomes policy and how states mobilize concern for women to reinforce their power. For readers interested in gender, migration, and global law, this book reveals a past that still echoes in the ways we police borders today.

Saleh, Fadi / Tschalaer, Mengia (eds.), Queer Liberalisms and Marginal Mobilities. (Ethnic and Racial Studies) 178 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-1221>
ISBN 978-1-041-19592-4 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book addresses queer migration through the intersectional lens of queer liberalisms, authoritarianism, and marginal mobilities. Globally, LGBTIQ+ rights form an inherent part of human rights discourse and politics. At the same time, this very human rights language is increasingly used by nation-states to defend their borders, control migration flows, and intensify discrimination and prejudice against the "other". Queer migration scholarship has therefore maintained a critical approach to such forms of national queer liberalism which risk marginalizing LGBTIQ+ refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers. The aim of this book is to unpack the tenuous relationship between politics of queer liberalisms and securitization within contested political contexts in the Global South and North by thinking about the ways in which the precarity of marginal mobilities for LGBTIQ+ persons on the move is produced within different (trans-) national contexts.This volume is essential reading for scholars, researchers, and graduate students in migration studies, queer and gender studies, human rights, and international relations. It offers valuable insights for policymakers, NGO professionals, and activists working at the intersection of LGBTIQ+ rights and migration. The book covers critical subject areas including transnational queer politics, border securitization, asylum processes, human rights frameworks, and the lived experiences of LGBTIQ+ migrants navigating hostile political environments across global contexts.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Bartoli, Elisabetta (ed.), Medieval Women in Letters: Letters by Women, to Women, and about Women in Medieval Literatures. (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 66) 374 pp. 2026:1 (Brepols, BE) <759-1229>
ISBN 978-2-503-61681-0 hard ¥27,951.- (税込) EUR 110.00

Bolaza, Elisabeth, Pleasure in Birth: Wellbeing, Praxis, and Reproductive Justice. (Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction) 258 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-1231>
ISBN 978-1-032-81366-0 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-80494-1 paper ¥11,788.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Pleasure in Birth: Wellbeing, Praxis, and Reproductive Justice explores how birthing people experience pleasure in childbirth, challenging dominant narratives that equate birth solely with pain and suffering.Drawing on The Birth Pleasure Study-the first rigorous mixed-methods research of its kind-this book presents rich data from 23 interviews covering 43 birth experiences across diverse racial, ethnic, gender, and socio-economic backgrounds. The book weaves experiential accounts with critical analysis to examine how cultural beliefs shape birth experiences and reinforce the maternal health crisis, particularly in the U.S. By introducing the Pleasure-Forward Birth Model, the book reimagines childbirth as a site of possibility, resilience, and joy, pushing back against the hyper-medicalized and fear-driven status quo.Pleasure in Birth: Wellbeing, Praxis, and Reproductive Justice is ideal for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional birth workers in the social and medical sciences, especially those interested in reproductive justice, maternal health, and cultural approaches to childbirth.

Bourlez, Fabrice, Queer Psychoanalysis: Minor Clinic and Deconstruction of Gender. (The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Series) 190 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-1232>
ISBN 978-1-041-01030-2 hard ¥41,272.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00
ISBN 978-1-041-01029-6 paper ¥9,430.- (税込) GB￡ 31.99

Queer Psychoanalysis offers a detailed study of the tensions and contiguities between the field of queer theory and that of Freudian-Lacanian metapsychology.Drawing on a detailed reading of the critiques that have been levelled against psychoanalysis by queer theorists, this book makes use of, and reinvigorates, a certain ethics. Fabrice Bourlez offers a perspective from which these two domains, rather than being opposed one to the other, can be thought of as being in dialogue. The book considers the work of both queer theorists and psychoanalytic thinkers and confronts the numerous homophobic stances that punctuate the history of psychanalysis. Bourlez formulates a manner of thinking that frees psychoanalysis from its preconceptions and unthought, while avoiding the entrapment of queer theory in a self-righteous utopian ideal. In so doing, this book conceptualizes a vision of psychanalysis that is better able to attend to the full spectrum of contemporary subjects.Queer Psychoanalysis will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and for scholars of psychoanalytic studies, sexuality, gender studies, psychology, cultural studies, aesthetic studies, and queer theory.

古代末期及び初期中世における女性－西欧と北アフリカ研究
Fournier, Eric / Kahlos, Maijastina (eds.), Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Studies from Western Europe and North Africa. (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 44) 350 pp. 2026:1 (Brepols, BE) <759-1242>
ISBN 978-2-503-61773-2 hard ¥27,951.- (税込) EUR 110.00

移行の時代におけるジェンダーを書き直す　1880～1940年
Garcia-Walsh, Katerina / Thompson, Paul (eds.), Rewriting Gender in an Age of Transition: 1880-1940. 218 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-1244>
ISBN 978-1-032-85006-1 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-84788-7 paper ¥11,788.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Rewriting Gender in an Age of Transition: 1880-1940 examines shifting discourses on gender and sexuality across the fin-de-siecle and early twentieth century.This interdisciplinary collection challenges the conventional divide between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, proposing instead that the period from 1880 to 1940 marks a pivotal era of transition. Through chapters spanning literature, history, art history, and linguistics, the volume explores evolving representations of femininity, masculinity, and queer identity in relation to broader cultural, political, and technological change. It places late nineteenth-century queer activism in dialogue with early twentieth-century media and artistic practices, revealing how anxieties around gender and sexuality shaped-and were shaped by-modernity. Contributions from both established and emerging scholars offer a multifaceted reappraisal of this transformative period.Rewriting Gender in an Age of Transition: 1880-1940 is ideal for students and researchers in gender studies, media studies, literature, history, and the social sciences interested in identity formation and cultural change.

Goodman, Robin Truth, Milestones in Critical Feminist Theory. (Milestones) 242 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <759-1245>
ISBN 978-1-032-54012-2 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-54011-5 paper ¥11,788.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Milestones in Critical Feminist Theory offers a thought-provoking introduction to a range of concepts that have influenced feminist thinking. Breaking down and exploring complex themes and debates, it starts discussions rather than offering conclusions, providing the building blocks for readers to explore new directions in feminist thought.The book is arranged by "keywords" with each chapter featuring a term or a set of terms which feminist theory has invested with multiple perspectives, conversations, and controversies, bridging between different feminist phases, events, orientations, disciplines and concerns. Each chapter presents broad overviews of why a particular term is relevant to feminist theory, as well deeper engagement with integral texts. While not meant to be taken as firm definitions, the keywords in this book are gateways to stories which describe the goals and histories of feminist theory. Robin Truth Goodman treats feminist theory as a living theory developing from a reckoning with messy and unpredictable politics. Goodman argues that the tools for social transformation have been prepared by writers and thinkers who came before, but that language, like gender, is something that cannot be fixed in place because its ability to reference things in the world is unstable and uncertain. If the terms that feminism has traditionally claimed in its self-descriptions are flawed or inadequate, our responsibility lies in transforming them, reanimating them in line with today's political needs, and creating through them new languages and narratives to generate different realities.Milestones in Critical Feminist Theory provides an informed foundation for those new to the subject. It is an invaluable resource for undergraduates and postgraduates of literary and cultural Studies, gender and sexuality studies, social justice curricula, and sociology.

Hulme, Tom, Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life Before Gay Liberation. 312 pp. 2026:4 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <759-1249>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8644-0 hard ¥31,581.- (税込) US$ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-8645-7 paper ¥6,087.- (税込) US$ 27.95

Belfastmen reconstructs the everyday experiences of queer men in a region infamous for its recent history of intolerance, violence, and religious homophobia to show how queer lives before the gay rights movement were not only possible, but also rich, exciting, and fulfilling. Irish churches and governmental authorities found the topic of sex between men unmentionable, and imagined such vice as a problem only found in decadent and degenerate societies abroad. Belfastmen shows how this tacit ignorance and public silence paradoxically enabled male queerness to flourish with only rare exposure, condemnation, or regulation. Tom Hulme traces the intimate lives of men across time, space, and self-understanding: their meeting places, their sexual and romantic relationships, the scientific and social models of desire they used to define themselves, and the responses to them from families, neighborhoods, and the law. From Belfast's industrial boom in the late-nineteenth century to the social transformations accompanying WWII, Belfastmen reveals how homosexuality finally emerged as a recognized social problem in the 1950s. Only then did Northern Ireland start to transform into the expressively homophobic society of the more recent past.

Krueger, Derek, Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and the Love of God in Medieval Constantinople. 352 pp. 2026:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-1251>
ISBN 978-1-009-64833-2 hard ¥10,318.- (税込) GB￡ 35.00

The Byzantine Abbot Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022) transgressed the homophobic norms of medieval Orthodox society. His longing for God was distinctly homoerotic, and he depicted union with the divine as a queer sort of marriage. His Orthodox theology of theosis, the deification of the entire person, meant that Symeon taught the salvation of all the parts of the body. But monks also desired the eradication of lust and the punishment of those who fell prey to it. Sermons and biblical commentary defined men who had sex with men as sodomites; and saints' lives warned of the consequences of same-sex desires. Those who renounced sex redirected their desire rather than eliminating it. Symeon's queer erotics shed light on other devotions distinctive to medieval Orthodoxy, including the veneration of saints and worship with icons. Monastic Desires makes a groundbreaking contribution to the history of sexuality and the history of Christianity.

Pedrucci, Giulia / Fulminante, F. / Seifert, M. (eds.), Inside Out: Gender and Ageing Agency in Urban and Non-Urban Religious Spaces in Antiquity. (Women of the Past 5) 416 pp. 2025:11 (Brepols, BE) <759-1256>
ISBN 978-2-503-61706-0 hard ¥39,385.- (税込) EUR 155.00

Raffenne, Coralie / Coquet-Mokoko, Cecile (eds.), Matriarchy, Gender and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. (Transformations) 272 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-1258>
ISBN 978-1-041-06039-0 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book explores the conceptualizations of female power through the notion of matriarchy in a variety of historical, cultural and epistemological contexts.Matriarchy has been both marginalized, and even derided, as an object of study albeit consistently referred to as a symbol of female power. The lack of serious engagement with matriarchy has stifled critical inquiry into alternative ways of organizing gendered power, and this gap is that this book seeks to address. Re-examining matriarchy from a scientific and interdisciplinary perspective, this book aims to move beyond the simplistic binaries of male vs. female power through diverse enquiries into the concept of matriarchy that conceptualizes power not as domination, but as interconnection, nurturing, and community-oriented leadership. Through this approach, the contributions examine the emancipatory possibilities of matriarchy, while also acknowledging the limitations and challenges that come with it.An interdisciplinary approach having international scope, this work will appeal to postgraduate students and academic researchers of Sociology, Anthropology, History, Art History, Asian Studies, American Studies, African American and Africana Studies, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, and Law.

Round, Matthew, Exploring Elite Schools and Inclusive Child-centred Sex and Relationships Education: Bourdieu and Heteronormative Power Structures. (Routledge Research in the Sociology of Education) 194 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-1260>
ISBN 978-1-032-99261-7 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Contributing to the body of literature that applies Bourdieu to the study of educational institutions, this novel volume considers how elite schools could successfully incorporate inclusive equitable sex and relationship education (RSE) within the existing mechanisms of continuing professional development (CPD), to provide a programme based on the needs and discomfort of both students and teachers.Using a case study approach focusing on elite schools, the book considers the socio-political nature of sex education in England from a Bordieuan perspective, while also incorporating aspects of Foucauldian normative power into political analysis to give broader international appeal. The book demonstrates how Bourdieu and his tool kit can be used to consider the sociological structures that allow for the construction, and thus deconstruction, of social norms within elite education. Chapters provide insights gathered from an understanding of the social fabric of elite schooling and the traditional, heteronormative ethos of such schools. As a result, recommendations are put forward regarding the development of CPD, supporting the successful implementation of inclusive and comprehensive sex education in elite schools.Calling for schools to develop cultures of conversation and dialogue rather than pedagogies of exposure and discomfort in the context of both sex education and teacher training,, this book will benefit academics and postgraduate students in the fields of sex education, research methods in education, and secondary education more broadly.

ローマ共和政における女性、富、権力
Steel, Catherine / Webb, Lewis (eds.), Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic. 2026:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-1266>
ISBN 978-1-009-69180-2 hard ¥32,428.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00

Stone, Nancy Iris, Becoming a Midwife in a Free-standing Birth Centre: "I am the midwife I dreamed of becoming". 180 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-1267>
ISBN 978-1-032-96929-9 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-96928-2 paper ¥11,788.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book explores the lived experiences of newly qualified midwives working in free-standing birth centres, highlighting the emotional, professional, and sociological aspects of their journeys from novices to confident practitioners in an out-of-hospital setting. As newly qualified midwives transition from their educational settings to the low-tech environment in their free-standing birth centre, they broaden their skill set, develop hands-on skills, and learn, for example, to care for labouring women without continuous fetal monitoring.This book spotlights the skills needed to work in free-standing birth centres, and the importance of becoming well integrated into a team which, in turn, allow newly qualified midwives to build confidence in their abilities and offer comprehensive care to women and their families throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. Capturing the skill acquisition, learning and professional identity development of newly qualified midwives, this thoughtful book emphasizes the critical role of mentorship from experienced midwives and the supportive environment for midwives and families in free-standing birth centres, many of which also offer home birth services.This book is an essential contribution to the literature around midwifery practice, with an emphasis on physiological birth, continuity of care, skill acquisition and professional identity development. It will be of use to students, practitioners and scholars with an interest in these areas.

Sunden, Jenny / Paasonen, Susanna / Tiidenberg, K., Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter. 228 pp. 2026:3 (MIT Pr., US) <759-1269>
ISBN 978-0-262-05206-1 paper ¥11,979.- (税込) US$ 55.00

Toedt, Elise, Teachers Pumping in Schools: Feminized Bodies, Firsthand Accounts, and Advocacy. (Routledge Research in Education) 192 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-1271>
ISBN 978-1-041-02873-4 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-02846-8 paper ¥12,673.- (税込) GB￡ 42.99

Teachers Pumping in Schools chronicles the daily, visceral experiences of U.S. teachers balancing infant feeding and full-time work.Based on interviews with K-12 teachers expressing milk at work in the United States, the author uses poetic inquiry to bring to life the journeys of teachers as they navigate time, space, and policies related to pumping and to parental leave. The book documents teachers sharing their joys, frustrations, advice, and movements to change the structure of schools to become more friendly to the bodily needs of lactating employees. Perspectives from public health officials, school administrators, and community experts further contextualize the problem of insufficient scheduling, space, and the lack of parental leave often encountered by lactating teachers. Grounded in feminist and social reproduction theories, the author illustrates how theory can be a practical tool for reimagining everyday practices within the current patriarchal, capitalist design of schools.This forward-thinking volume is essential reading for researchers, activists, and educators interested in feminist theory, social reproduction theory, poetic inquiry and arts-based research methodology, and social justice education.

Peake, Linda / Razavi, Nasya S. et al. (eds.), Decolonising Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures. 144 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <759-1017>
ISBN 978-1-041-06958-4 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

How do decolonial feminist urban imaginaries of urban futures begin to interrogate twenty-first century urban life? The urban futures signaled by the chapters in this book highlight three overlapping dimensions of urban imaginaries-capitalist, colonialist, (neo)colonialist-and how women's struggles, negotiations and placemaking practices offer alternative decolonial urban imaginaries. The first dimension connects the privatization and commodification of urban infrastructures to the realization of state-based and capitalist discursive efforts to make the urban. The second dimension concerns temporal convergences of past, present and future in visions of the urban. It is in these convergences that the recursive logics of coloniality are reproduced in re-mappings of the landscapes of urban inequality and dispossession through which encounters between historical sedimentations of colonial relations and emergent (neo)colonial formations take place. Third, authors take up the everyday as a site of struggle through which women's negotiations and placemaking practices offer alternative urban imaginaries. The book is based on papers given at the 'Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures' conference, held in September 2019, at York University in Toronto, Canada, organized by the transnational feminist research project, 'Urbanization and Gender in the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network' (GenUrb). It was originally published as a special issue of Urban Geography.

物語、想像、社会学－K.プラマー記念論集
Carrabine, Eamonn / Demireva, Neli et al. (eds.), Stories, Imaginations and Sociology: Essays in Honour of Ken Plummer. (Routledge Advances in Sociology) 272 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-1032>
ISBN 978-1-032-89649-6 hard ¥42,746.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book is in honour of the late sociologist Ken Plummer - a remarkable scholar whose work transformed several fields, from his early writing on symbolic interactionism, stigma and sexualities, through methodological innovations that have underpinned the 'narrative turn', to his explorations of citizenship and humanism. The chapters in this collection cover a diverse range of topics and all draw on Ken's work, revealing his enduring and significant influence. The breadth of contributions here testify to Ken Plummer's impact across generations of scholars and sub-fields of sociology and social psychology. Many of the authors in this collection knew Ken personally, as colleagues, students and friends.Contributing to debates on critical theory, intimacy and sexuality, the interdisciplinary nature of this book enables it to reach a wide audience engaged in research methods of social theory, anthropology, media studies, sociology, psychology and history. It is aimed primarily at students, lecturers and researchers interested in gender, sexuality, identity, social history, social theory, research and teaching methods.

Gordillo de Paz, Macarena / Manganas, Nicholas, The Politics of Gendered Life Stories in Spain: From Private Lives to Public Revolution. 170 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-916>
ISBN 978-3-032-06396-0 hard ¥10,160.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book examines how gendered life stories act as interventions that unsettle the boundaries between private experience and public life. From the testimonies of women whose accounts of gender violence have forced a reckoning with institutional silence, to the kiss-gate scandal in women's football that reframed debates on consent and national identity, to Shakira's widely circulated song about her public breakup, where questions of female authorship unfolded within the tightly managed economies of global pop celebrity, these stories reveal the shifting conditions under which lived experience acquires political force. Set against Spain's volatile political landscape-marked by feminist mobilisation, reactionary backlash, and struggles over the meaning of public testimony-this book offers a framework for understanding how personal narratives travel, gather force, and become sites where political and cultural boundaries are redrawn. It speaks to readers concerned with the mediated life of testimony and the historical conditions under which private lives come to matter publicly, in Spain and beyond.

Gruber, Julia K. / Range, Regina (eds.), Feminist Anger in German-Language Cultural Production: Responses to Racism, Misogyny, and Other Injustice. (Women and Gender in German Studies) 240 pp. 2025:12 (Camden House, UK) <758-917>
ISBN 978-1-64014-238-1 hard ¥25,058.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Essays by feminist scholars of German Studies looking at how women-particularly women of color-have put their anger to use in German-language cultural production and how they themselves might do so in their scholarship. In Germany and in Western culture more broadly, women experience anger in response to misogyny, racism, and other injustice, but open expression of that anger is often considered unwomanly. Yet a rich tradition of feminist thinkers of color-including Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper, Amia Srinivasan, and Sara Ahmed-understands anger as energizing and imperative for structural change. How might we cultivate an anger that is affirming, inclusive, legitimate, creative, animating, and most of all, feminist? This volume of essays by feminist scholars of German Studies-writing in dialogue with such thinkers while acknowledging their own largely white, privileged positionalities-looks at how women have put their anger to use in German-language cultural production and how they themselves might do so in their scholarship. The eleven contributions approach the topic of female anger intersectionally and transnationally. They examine angry women in the contexts of politics, activism, philosophy, economics, race, nationality, sexuality, illness, and humour. Covering a wide array of genres and discussing works from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, they explore creators including writers, filmmakers, comedian/activists, musicians, and journalists. They investigate the tensions between the emotion of anger and the practice of being an angry woman, global responses to anger, and artistic representations of angry women in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Horak, Laura, Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds. 395 pp. 2026:4 (U. California Pr., US) <758-920>
ISBN 978-0-520-42508-8 hard ¥20,691.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-42510-1 paper ¥5,869.- (税込) US$ 26.95

An exciting introduction to cinema by the trans creators who are innovating filmmaking to imagine a more inclusive world. Since the 1990s, a largely underground upwelling of trans creativity has helped new trans identities, communities, and political movements come together. In Trans Cinema, Laura Horak provides an entryway to the wildly diverse and creative cinema made by trans creators, including those who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Overlooked until now, this rich collection of media ranges in genre from romantic comedies to horror films and asks essential questions about how to be human and how to craft a livable life in a world on fire. Using the fundamentals of film studies, Horak reveals the innovative approaches taken by trans and gender-nonconforming artists to explore how we relate to other people, what it's like to have a body, and how we survive in an oppressive society. These filmmakers tackle the challenging paradox of representing trans lives when greater visibility is associated with ever-increasing levels of harm. In the process, they produce art that emphasizes trans survival and resilience and imagines a more expansive world for trans communities.

Richardson, Elaine B. / Pough, Gwendolyn D. et al. (eds.), Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism. (California Series in Hip Hop Studies 7) 204 pp. 2026:3 (U. California Pr., US) <758-933>
ISBN 978-0-520-40908-8 hard ¥20,691.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40909-5 paper ¥6,523.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism presents a dynamic and much-needed fresh analysis of Black gendering and racialized sexualities in the sphere of Hip Hop. Editors Elaine B. Richardson, Gwendolyn D. Pough, and Treva B. Lindsey bring together established and rising scholars to examine the work of Hip Hop creators and practitioners, using the genre as a lens to address the crises of this historical moment, marked by attacks on bodily autonomy, LGBTQ+ rights, education, and Black Studies. This timely anthology recenters queer Black feminism and traces legacies of queer Black feminist activism and expression through Hip Hop culture and music, cementing queer Black feminism's place in (Black) culture, liberation movements, and education.

Wilkins, Christina, Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture: Anglo-American Representations, 2010 to Present. 221 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-939>
ISBN 978-3-032-05441-8 hard ¥33,029.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores contemporary cultural narratives across film, television, and literature to illuminate the way male mental illness is positioned. It argues that fundamentally, the male experience is shaped differently due to the impact of gender expectations. Alongside this, narratives containing suicide also often fail to address the experiential, focusing on the why instead. This results in a limited approach that upholds hegemonic ideals, and with it, a need to rationalize or explain mental health and suicide, rather than engage with it more empathetically.