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

Mezo Gonzalez, Juan Carlos, Gay Print Culture: A Transnational History of North America. 288 pp. 2026:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-935>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2958-8 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3304-2 paper ¥6,752.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In Gay Print Culture, Juan Carlos Mezo GonzAlez investigates the relationship between transnational gay liberation politics, periodicals, and images in Mexico, the United States, and Canada from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s. Mezo GonzAlez examines the production, content, circulation, and reception of leading gay periodicals published in these countries, including community-based gay liberation publications and commercially oriented gay lifestyle and erotic magazines. He demonstrates how they aimed to visualize the political goals of gay liberation, particularly those concerning the liberation and celebration of homoerotic desires. Mezo GonzAlez contends that visualizing these goals allowed activists, editors, publishers, and artists to foster the formation of gay communities and identities while advancing gay liberation movements at the local, national, and international levels. In so doing, he furthers understandings of the transnational nature of gay periodicals, the relationship between gay liberation politics and visual culture, and the existing tensions between the liberation of some and the oppression of others across the American continent.

Okan, Lee, Sexual Violence in Comics: The Ethics of Visualizing Trauma. 272 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:10
ISBN 978-1-6669-2915-7 hard ¥24,728.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-6669-2917-1 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

An examination of how comics represent, confront, and sometimes perpetuate gendered violence. Lee Okan argues that comics, with their hybrid form of image and text, possess an ability to express the unspeakable dimensions of trauma while also raising ethical questions about spectatorship, representation, and storytelling. Through close analysis of contemporary and independent comics, as well as anthology collections, this book shows how artists navigate the tension between testimony and spectacle, visibility and exploitation.Rather than treating comics as an isolated medium, Okan situates these works within broader cultural and media discourses on sexual violence, arguing that comics shape and are shaped by feminist activism, visual culture, and reader response. Sexual Violence in Comics traces how creators reframe the terms of witness, challenge dominant narratives, and reclaim narrative authority, particularly in the wake of the #MeToo movement and beyond.

戦時の少女性－コソボにおける戦争と解放の解釈
Musliu, Vjosa, Girlhood at War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo. (Creative Interventions in Global Politics) 232 pp. 2025:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <764-756>
ISBN 979-88-8180-097-0 hard ¥26,273.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00
ISBN 979-88-8180-098-7 paper ¥8,651.- (税込) GB￡ 27.99

This book tells the true story of a young girl growing up during the Kosovo war and its immediate aftermath following Kosovo's liberation by NATO troops in 1999. Through her embodied experiences, the book exposes the tangible and everyday acts and events of the war, providing brutal insight into the impact of war and the politics of subjugation.At the outset of the book (in 1998), Vjosa's view of the world, as a young child, is organized in clear dichotomies: the good Albanians and the evil Serbs; the brutal Serbian military shelling Albanian civilians and the angelic NATO airplanes bombing Serbian military sites. This Manichean worldview starts to unravel after Vjosa and her family are chased away from their home by the Serbian military and moved to the suburbs. There, surrounded by mostly poor and uneducated fellow Albanians, she gradually discovers the layers of her family's socio-economic privileges. Though unequipped with the language to verbalize it, she is tormented by the idea that her family's comparatively higher socio-economic status is the reason why they are spared by the Serbian military. When the war ends in 1999, and the NATO tanks fill the narrow streets of her hometown as Serbian military tanks leave, Vjosa believes she received her own 'happily ever after'. She celebrates her thirteenth birthday happily wearing a US military uniform, holding an unbearably heavy unloaded gun as she becomes the favorite interpreter of the American NATO troops. She spends several months after the war occasionally translating between angry Albanians who now seek revenge against Serbs and NATO troops who insist on not picking sides; showcasing the impossibility of (re)building Kosovo with "both-sides-ism" becoming the modus operandi of the international intervening structures.

Tang, Denise Tse-Shang, Everyday Erotics: Older Chinese Women and Same-Sex Desire. 200 pp. 2026:3 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-836>
ISBN 978-1-4780-3368-4 hard ¥23,439.- (税込) US$ 103.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3856-6 paper ¥6,076.- (税込) US$ 26.95

In Everyday Erotics, Denise Tse-Shang Tang explores the lives of older women with same-sex desire in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. Tang interviews women born in the 1930's through the 1960's, looking at how their lives differ across culture, class, and place, and how they lived and understood their own desires and social worlds. Through these tales of love, intimacy, family obligations, and personal respectability, she presents narrative accounts and analyses that complicate cultural notions of romance and desire at the intersections of gender roles, social class, and history. An ethnography grounded in inter-Asian cultural flows and connected histories, Everyday Erotics builds an archive of queer women's lives and a genealogy of their experiences.

Wang, Lee Ann S., The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women. 152 pp. 2026:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-582>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2982-3 hard ¥23,439.- (税込) US$ 103.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3327-1 paper ¥6,076.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

Celebrated as a feminist victory upon its passage as part of the Clinton Crime Bill, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is a landmark piece of legislation that provides protections for survivors of gender and sexual violence. However, as Lee Ann S. Wang shows in The Violence of Protection, VAWA primarily funds law enforcement efforts to rescue women, and in doing so, creates conditions of racial violence against survivors from communities who are already policed, surveilled, and face immigration enforcement. Through ethnographic fieldwork with legal and social advocates serving Asian American survivors of gender and sexual violence in the San Francisco Bay Area, Wang shows how these activists grapple with laws which require survivors to cooperate with policing in order to receive protection. Engaging in methodologies of feminist refusal, theories of racial assemblage, and abolition feminisms, The Violence of Protection theorizes the victim as a legal subject and exposes the racial violence enacted when State-provided legal safeguards are leveraged to expand punishment against survivors, their communities, and others.

Anderson, Kim M. / Havig, Kirsten K., Violence Against Women: Countering Historical and Contemporary Missteps on the Road to Social Justice. (Contemporary Perspectives on Social Inequalities in the United States) 2026:6 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <764-605>
ISBN 978-1-6669-4214-9 hard ¥24,728.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

This book is an interdisciplinary look at historical and contemporary responses to violence against women. The authors also explore Crenshaw's three forms of intersectionality in the context of violence against minoritized women to capture patterns of advantage and disadvantage. They argue that this social problem cannot be fully understood without encompassing such integration.

Moss, Eloise, The Secret Life of the Hotel: Sex, Crime and Protest in British Guesthouses Since 1918. 320 pp. 2026:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <764-616>
ISBN 978-1-350-53570-1 hard ¥6,182.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00 *

Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in hotels? Hotels represent nations, hosting visiting monarchs, politicians, and diplomats. Hotels underpin global networks of travel and communication, on which national and international prosperity have increasingly depended since the end of the First World War. Yet hotels are also places where people can be anonymous; where murderers and thieves mix with adulterers and con artists; and where prejudice finds expression in who is refused access, and in the forms of 'service' provided by staff in the lowest-paid roles. The Secret Life of the Hotel: Sex, Crime and Protest in British Guesthouses Since 1918 is the first book to uncover how hotels entrenched inequality, prejudice, and exploitation in Britain's tourist sector, and in wider society and culture, during the 20th century.Eloise Moss delves into hotel murders, swindles, and scandals, including the history of Agatha Christie's disappearance in 1926, the 'Margate Hotel Murder', and the divorce of Wallis Simpson in 1936 so she could marry King Edward VIII. Moss's exploration of the hotel also shines a light on the fight against the colour bar, the formation of the British civil rights movement, and the visit to London of Martin Luther King Jr.The Secret Life of the Hotel uniquely tells the story of Britain's relationship with the world during the 20th century through the prism of its hotels, showing how their infrastructure and 'welcome' had profound consequences for women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ citizens, and people with disabilities.

Raufu, Abiodun / Sohn, Jiseun (eds.), Global Perspectives on Sex Offending. 272 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:5 <764-621>
ISBN 979-88-8180-729-0 hard ¥27,819.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00
ISBN 979-82-16-37707-8 paper ¥9,273.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00

Sex offending is a multifaceted and pervasive phenomenon with far-reaching implications for victims, society, and the global community. This book examines the global and comparative perspectives on sex offending, particularly with regard to cultural variations and plurality of legal outlook that pose challenge to a global action. It offers a comprehensive exploration of the causes, prevalence, consequences, and the differential responses to sex offending across the world. With contributions from leading experts in psychology, law, sociology, and criminology, this multidisciplinary edited volume encompasses such disciplines as criminology, gender studies, law, psychology, cultural studies, and sociology. It is a compelling and timely resource for policymakers, practitioners, students, researchers, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics of global sex offending. Global Perspectives on Sex Offending serves as a beacon of hope in the fight against this silent epidemic, urging us to shine a light into the shadows and stand in solidarity with survivors around the world.

Wilcock, Angela / Williams, Helen (eds.), New Perspectives on Global Gender-Based Violence: Digital, Institutional and Inter-Personal Harms. (Critical Criminological Perspectives) 258 pp. 2026:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <764-629>
ISBN 978-3-032-13209-3 hard ¥37,110.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This edited collection reflects the diversity of gender-based violence and presents new perspectives and expands current scholarship in global contexts. It considers behaviours and actions including digital, interpersonal and institutional violence which are not readily understood as violence but are experienced as inherently harmful. It showcases how digital technology permeates violence and harm in diverse ways - whether this be via surveillance technology, harmful ideology or hate speech online or the globalised nature of the internet. With reflections on how people can research and challenge gender-based violence and harm in the future, it speaks to those interested in digital harm across Sociology, Criminology, Psychology, Youth Studies, Education, Law, Media and/or Cultural Studies.

Gambino, Elena, Erotic Knowledge: Toward a Lesbian Feminist Political Theory. 208 pp. 2026:4 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-681>
ISBN 978-1-4780-3377-6 hard ¥23,439.- (税込) US$ 103.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3868-9 paper ¥5,850.- (税込) US$ 25.95

Erotic Knowledge explores how US lesbian feminists raised questions about the political stakes of sexual freedom, how their distinctive political vocabularies informed coalition- and institution-building in ways that strain against contemporary queer and feminist assumptions, and how these alternative grammars were left behind in the decades since lesbian feminism's remarkable surge in the 1970s. Elena Gambino makes the case that the past of US lesbian feminism is rich in resources not only for rethinking vital questions of sexual freedom in the present, but also for incorporating these questions into a broader understanding of the silencing effects of disciplinary historical knowledge. Drawing on archival sources typically ignored in political theory, such as lesbian feminist poetry, literary criticism, and the publications of small presses and periodicals, Gambino argues that the full extent of lesbian feminists' contributions should be seen as a distinctive form of political analysis that which can guide lesbian feminist interventions in sexual intimacy, epistemology, and institution-building.

Howard, Katie / Mariotti, Shannon L. (eds.), The Witch: A Reader in Feminist Political Theory. 362 pp. 2026:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <764-683>
ISBN 978-3-032-10513-4 hard ¥37,110.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This reader addresses the popular resurgence of the political identity of the witch as a figure of power and feminist protest, expanding the area of study from early modern history and into political science and philosophy. Bringing together established classic essays on the witch with emerging new scholarship, this volume takes up a variety of pressing questions that are essential to feminist political theory. What power dynamics operate within these new forms of identification and commodification of the witch? What exactly is being claimed and reclaimed when one identifies as a witch today? What is the relationship between witches and the category of "woman"? What roles do race, class, and gender play in the figure? And how does the witch help us conjure up new approaches to - and new canons for - both philosophy and political theory? Through these essays and questions, this volume introduces tensions, critiques, and concepts that provide a mirror for larger conversations happening within feminist political theory.

Pelluchon, Corine, Die Macht des Weiblichen: Ideen zu einer Demokratie ohne Herrschaft. 160 S. 2026:5 (Beck, GW) <764-690>
ISBN 978-3-406-84417-1 hard ¥6,362.- (税込) EUR 24.00

Ein feministisches Verstaendnis von politischer Macht Wie kann man sich gegen die neuen Herrschaftslogiken wehren, die gegenwaertig unsere Demokratie untergraben? In ihrem klaren und engagierten Essay gibt die preisgekroente franzoesische Philosophin Corine Pelluchon eine faszinierende Antwort: Wenn wir der Gewalt und Angst die Macht des Weiblichen entgegenstellen, die allen Geschlechtern offensteht - eine Kraft des Teilens, der Fuersorge und der gegenseitigen Wertschaetzung -, kann eine gerechtere, freudvollere und menschlichere Zukunft unserer Demokratie entstehen. Corine Pelluchon wendet sich mit grosser Sorge dem aktuellen Rechtsruck zu und moechte vor allem die besondere Attraktivitaet erklaeren, die populistische bis faschistische Auffassungen so stark machen. Laut Pelluchon basiert diese Attraktivitaet auf einer Art Intrige, in die rechtsextreme Fuehrungsfiguren sowie geneigte Teile der Bevoelkerung verstrickt sind: Geteilte Ohnmachtserfahrungen werden mit toxischen Bemaechtigungs- und Ausgrenzungswuenschen beantwortet. Um unsere Demokratie vor dieser affektiven Dynamik zu bewahren, plaediert Pelluchon fuer ein feministisches Demokratieverstaendnis. Sie beruft sich dabei auf eine weibliche Erfahrung, die von einem Bewusstsein der Vulnerabilitaet, der wechselseitigen Abhaengigkeit und einer Dankbarkeit gegenueber der Natur gepraegt ist. Eine Politik, die dieser Erfahrung gerecht wird, muss auf Kooperation, Ruecksichtnahme und der Einhegung von Beherrschungswuenschen gebaut sein.

アメリカにおけるフェミニズムとフェミニスト運動－理想とアクティヴズム百科事典
Kornfield, Sarah (ed.), Feminism and Feminist Movements in America: An Encyclopedia of Ideals and Activism. 496 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <764-7>
ISBN 979-82-16-18440-9 hard ¥29,364.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

Offers deeply researched entries on nearly 200 essential people, events, organizations, laws, concepts, and issues that have defined US feminist movements, from the founding era through today. US feminist movements are defined by persistence, bravery, and a steadfast belief in the fundamental worth of girls and women. These carefully curated entries delve thoughtfully into topics of significant public and scholarly interest in the realms of feminism, women's rights, and gender dynamics in both public and private spaces. Featured here are the activists and ideas that have challenged--and in many instances prevailed over--inequities in US society, from key figures such as Angela Davis and Betty Friedan to significant events such as the Women's March on Washington in 2017 and the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. America's feminist movements have fundamentally changed the lives of millions of people of every sex, gender, race, ethnicity, faith, and sexual orientation. This resource shows how feminist movements have also been integral in championing the many women who have made pioneering contributions in fields ranging from science and medicine to politics and advocacy. It also casts an unflinching light on the issues that women continue to face every day in fighting for equality in the home, workplace, classroom, and popular media in the 21st century. Authored by feminist scholars, activists, and practitioners, this is an essential first stop for readers looking for a comprehensive introduction to US feminism's most relevant milestones and the concepts needed to contextualize its history and chart its future.

Rovito, Maria, Cripping Endometriosis: Feminist Disability Histories and Reflections on Power and Pain. 256 pp. 2026:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <764-416>
ISBN 978-3-032-15680-8 hard ¥34,459.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book argues for reframing endometriosis as a chronic pain condition, rather than an infertility issue. Drawing from feminist theory, disability studies, historical and archival research, and personal, embodied knowledge of living with the disease, it analyzes the deeply rooted misogyny and racism of Western medicine's research and treatment of endometriosis as a "career woman's disease"-a framing which demonizes women's reproductive choices and focuses on gender roles rather than their pain, experience, and agency. Offering a unique lens through which we can re-examine broader issues of autonomy, authority, and agency within the healthcare system, it will appeal to scholars in gender studies, disability studies, medical humanities, feminist studies, and the history of gynecology, as well as women's health advocates and healthcare practitioners.

Lefley, Frank / Janecek, Vaclav, Board Gender Diversity and Critical Mass Theory: Empirical Support and the Paradox of Ineffectiveness. 258 pp. 2026:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <764-459>
ISBN 978-3-032-13607-7 hard ¥39,761.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of critical mass theory in the context of board gender diversity and gender quotas. Authored by leading experts in the field, it provides an up-to-date analysis of how gender diversity impacts corporate governance and the effectiveness of quotas in achieving equitable representation. Through this comprehensive study, readers will gain insights into the dynamics of boardroom diversity and the challenges of implementing gender quotas. Key concepts such as token theory, women directors, and corporate governance are thoroughly examined, with particular attention given to the empirical evidence supporting critical mass theory. The authors present a nuanced analysis of why a critical mass of female directors may not always lead to the anticipated outcomes, challenging conventional wisdom and offering fresh perspectives. This book is essential for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of gender diversity in corporate settings. Ideal for researchers, scholars, and practitioners in corporate governance, this book is a valuable resource for those interested in the intersection of gender studies and business management. It is a must-read for academics and policymakers aiming to foster more inclusive and effective boardrooms. With its unique focus and authoritative insights, this volume stands out as a vital contribution to the field.

Kendal, Evie, Science Fiction and the Ethics of Artificial Wombs: Reproductive Futures. (Reproductive Ethics: Critical Perspectives) 240 pp. 2026:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:8 <764-184>
ISBN 978-1-350-54297-6 hard ¥26,273.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-54301-0 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

Ectogenesis, or artificial wombs, is not yet a reality. But is it the future? In this revolutionary book, Evie Kendal explores the potential that ectogenesis has to promote sexual equality in human reproduction, and the role science fiction plays in imagining possible futures where this technology is realised. Fictional representations of ectogenesis are typically used in bioethics to support techno-conservative views of reproduction, conflating the potential issues associated with this technology with other controversial practices, such as human cloning and genetic engineering. Arguing against this dominant trend from a liberal feminist perspective, and placing ectogestation within the rich history of debate in the area, this interdisciplinary volume examines the numerous benefits that growing a foetus in an artificial environment could bring in saving women from the sole burden of reproduction. Further considering the complex dynamic between ectogenesis and science fiction, Kendal not only applies bioethical reasoning to ectogenesis but to its representation in literature and film, and the subsequent use of such media in the bioethical discourse. As a result, she highlights several problems with the current methods of engagement with science fiction in bioethics. Proposing alternatives, Kendal argues that new methods should capitalise on science fiction's ability to both communicate biotechnical change and explore how to infiltrate emerging technologies into society.With extended case studies, including Dawn by Octavia E. Butler, Science Fiction and the Ethics of Artificial Wombs brings together bioethics, philosophy, feminist thought, and literary theory to tackle urgent questions about how we think about and imagine this new way of creating human life.

Roelofs, Monique, Strange Tastes: Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms. 336 pp. 2026:5 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-204>
ISBN 978-1-4780-3375-2 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3865-8 paper ¥6,752.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Strange Tastes is a philosophical excursion into aesthetic experience and the public through the works of contemporary Latin American and Latinx women writers and artists. In a careful study of this revelatory archive, Monique Roelofs shows how life lived aesthetically can embrace public space instead of surrendering it to the constrictive forces of gendering and racial capital. Joining notions of sensibility grounded in Enlightenment aesthetics with the creative capabilities of a decolonial aesthetics, Roelofs looks to practices that animate the public through intimate, social, and political registers, particularly by engaging the historical and critical potentialities of disinterested play and what she calls "strange tastes," or the unusual, uncanny, and nonnormative desires and sensations of marginalized individuals. Through sustained attention to materiality and lived experience, Roelofs offers a feminist philosophy of aesthetics that takes seriously the role of the public, where strange tastes turn aesthetic imaginaries into powerful possibilities to remake self, city, nation, and world.

Alison, James, You Can, If You Want To: Navigating Christian Faith, Conscience, and matters LGBTQ+. 352 pp. 2025:7 (Bloomsbury Continuum, UK) <764-235>
ISBN 978-1-3994-2299-4 paper ¥5,560.- (税込) GB￡ 17.99

What if Christianity was far more liberating than the culture wars suggest? Can the conflict concerning Christianity and homosexuality be viewed from a more interpretative lens? James Alison, a Catholic priest who is also a gay man, has been wrestling with the matter for over forty years.This luminous and rigorous book dismantles the fear-based binaries which have dominated conversations in the Church. Striving to address potential concerns about accepting LGBTQ+ individuals within the church, James draws on scripture, tradition and his lived experience to form a broader understanding of faith and humanity.

Shorter, Rosie Clare, Complementarianism, Gender and Evangelism: Retelling Sydney Anglican Stories. (Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality) 256 pp. 2026:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <764-261>
ISBN 978-1-350-50199-7 hard ¥26,273.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Complementarianism, Gender and Evangelism offers a feminist, sociological account of lived Sydney Anglicanism. Furthering the study of global evangelicalism, Rosie Clare Shorter provides a new frame for analyzing complementarianism as a specific discourse that uses gender to construct and regulate both faith and sexuality. This study theorizes that complementarianism is not simply a set of private beliefs, but rather a specific ecclesial discourse defining orthodoxy and orthopraxy. Embedded in language and the relationships between church leaders and parishioners, this discourse is used as an operation of power which limits Christian belief, behaviour and belonging.Grounded in the author's research and lived experience in the Sydney Anglican Diocese, the book provides a detailed study of individuals who worship and work at three parishes, covering both the stories told about Sydney Anglicans, and the lived experiences of Anglicans themselves, their identity, their faith and their communities.

Dixon, Sandra / DePass, Cecille (eds.), Unmasking the Experiences of Racialized Women in Academia. 288 pp. 2026:4 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:7 <764-1215>
ISBN 978-1-6669-5659-7 hard ¥26,273.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00
ISBN 979-82-16-38867-8 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

Showcases the lived experiences of racialized women in academia in their respective higher education institutions.Through a collection of comprehensive, accessible essays, this volume discusses the key challenges that women of color in academia-faculty, administrators, and graduate students-face. The arguments presented in these chapters are based on multi-disciplinary empirical research and theoretical frameworks rooted in a variety of disciplines such as Indigenous studies, social work, psychology, health sciences, and education. This volume offers tangible remedies and approaches to address systemic inequities and promote meaningful institutional change for educators, administrators, and stakeholders in higher education on a national level.

Gindidis, Maria / Southcott, Jane / Wake, Rose (eds.), Women of the Diaspora: Generational Transformations. 232 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:5 <764-1219>
ISBN 978-1-6669-7100-2 hard ¥24,728.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 979-82-16-37554-8 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

Women of the Diaspora: Generational Transformations offers fresh insights into the experiences of women who migrated in the aftermath of World War Two.The contributors examine migration not just as a geographical shift but as a deeply economic, psychological, and intercultural journey-one that profoundly reshaped women's identities and understandings of ethnicity. The volume also explores the lives of the next generation-daughters of diasporic migrants-whose experiences are shaped by a constant negotiation between the cultural traditions of their parents and the values of their new homelands.

Keyse, Rhian Elinor / Moussion Esteve, A. et al. (eds.), Sexual Violence in Medicine and Psychiatry: Addressing Harms Through Interdisciplinarity. (Genders and Sexualities in History) 282 pp. 2026:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <764-122>
ISBN 978-3-032-10799-2 hard ¥39,761.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book explores how medical and psychiatric knowledge, practitioners, and practices respond to sexual violence. It highlights how the medical and psychiatric fields often reproduce political and social dynamics of discrimination, othering, marginalisation, neglect, or surveillance, through their own sets of discourses and practices. Covering a wide range of geographical case studies including the UK, Australia, Kenya, and Argentina, this book is the first cohesive edited collection to unite interdisciplinary scholarship on this topic. Chapters 1, 10 and 11 are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Hines, CharMaine, Voices of Women of Color Community College CEOs. 222 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:5 <764-1223>
ISBN 979-87-651-4544-9 hard ¥26,273.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00
ISBN 979-87-651-4547-0 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

Centering the voices and experiences of women of color in community college leadership is a mandate for meaningful institutional change. In doing so, we not only deepen our understanding but also empower a more inclusive and effective leadership model.This book highlights the perspectives of 17 leaders from diverse backgrounds including African American, Asian Pacific Islander, and Latino/Hispanic communities. By sharing the reflections of current and former community college chancellors and presidents the book enriches our understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities faced by these women leaders. By revealing how they perceive themselves, as well as how they are perceived by their peers, women of color illuminate their experiences as community college leaders, including navigating the intersections of race, ethnicity, and gender. The book is divided into four parts, with chapters examining the unique pressures faced by women of color leaders in their roles in academia and emphasizing the importance of having a "voice at the table." It considers the dynamics of the proverbial glass ceiling as bent, cracked, broken, or shattered and offers valuable insights from this diverse group of women leaders while crystalizing the "hidden curriculum" that leaders of color must navigate within higher education.

Nathan, Amy, Riding Into History: The Surprising Story of Sarah Keys Evans and the Fight to Desegregate Bus Travel. 300 pp. 2026:3 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-1235>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2971-7 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3316-5 paper ¥6,752.- (税込) US$ 29.95

As a member of the integrated Women's Army Corps, Private First Class Sarah Keys served her country as a receptionist at Fort Dix, New Jersey. When she boarded a bus home to North Carolina in 1952, she never expected to be arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for refusing to move to the rear so a white Marine could take her seat. Her landmark 1955 Civil Rights victory, "Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company" not only desegregated interstate bus travel, it also provided the legal precedent needed during the 1961 Freedom Rides to pressure the Interstate Commerce Commission to properly enforce its Sarah Keys ruling. Often overlooked in many accounts of the Civil Rights era, her arrest and victory are crucial milestones in the fight against segregation. Riding into History draws on years of personal conversations with Sarah Keys Evans as well as extensive research to present a biography of this hero and her role in the struggle for civil rights alongside the long history of many other Black Americans, especially women, who protested racial segregation in interstate travel.

Storti, Anna M. Moncada, Torn: Asian/White Life and the Intimacy of Violence. 264 pp. 2026:3 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-1244>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2944-1 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3288-5 paper ¥6,752.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In Torn, Anna M. Moncada Storti searches for the ordinary and obscured impressions of the US empire, theorizing the pervasiveness of its violence through the language and patterns of intimacy. Reading for the intimacy of violence, Storti compiles an inventory of quotidian, psychic, and affective tensions that arise within the bodies of empire's historical subjects. She raises Asian/white life as the representative case study to examine a familiar narrative of inner strife-that being of two distinct racial histories is to be rendered a body in tension, torn between ancestral lineages. Rather than refute this stance, Storti tracks the duress of fragmentation as a sign of war's permanent mark on racial and sexual subjection. Traversing an archive of aesthetic, literary, and cultural portrayals of Asian/white racial mixture, Storti observes how Asian Americans refuse, rework, or reify the logics of progress and disavowal that have long fueled the US war machine. Tending to tension, she argues for a sustained confrontation with empire's ordinary life, a prerequisite for anti-imperial solidarity.

Tran, Sharon N., Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire. 256 pp. 2026:4 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <764-1247>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1985-6 hard ¥25,256.- (税込) US$ 112.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1986-3 paper ¥6,314.- (税込) US$ 28.00

How the "Asian girl" is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian AmericaRepresentations of the "Asian girl" as lucky objects of humanitarian rescue and rehabilitation have been used to advance America's imperial ambitions from World War II to the wars in Korean and Viet Nam. In this compelling work, Sharon N. Tran traces the production and instrumentalization of this figure through an examination of state documents, military newspapers, documentary photographs, and other archival materials. Theorizing "Asian girlhood" as a technology of imperial power, Tran exposes how the Asian girl is invoked as a shield that protects the innocence of US empire while she is excluded from innocence herself - relegated instead to a precarious position between child and adult, human and nonhuman, plaything and laborer.Offering fresh insight into how imperial power operates, Tran analyzes figures such as the Japanese American school-girl in the context of World War II incarceration, the elusive "camptown girl," and the objectified image of the "Napalm Girl." Her innovative feminist approach interrogates the tendency to reclaim innocence for the Asian girl or to reframe her as an empowered woman. She engages the work of writers and artists such as Kiku Hughes, Nora Okja Keller, Aimee Phan, and le thi diem thuy to demonstrate how Asian American literature offers rich theoretical interventions for critiquing the child-adult dichotomy that underpins key structures of imperial domination, illuminating more capacious conceptions of girlhood.Restoring the dignity and agency of a figure too often denied both, Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire is a groundbreaking intersectional contribution to studies of gender, race, childhood, and state power.Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

Bacchetta, Paola, Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances. 304 pp. 2026:1 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-1257>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2953-3 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3297-7 paper ¥6,752.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In Co-Motion, theorist Paola Bacchetta proposes a new lexicon for analyzing power, subjects and alliances. Employing what she calls 'theory-assemblages' to describe how diverse theoretical and political approaches inspire movements and produce different kinds of alliances, Bacchetta engages the inseparability of power relations-such as colonialism, capitalism, racism, caste, misogyny, and speciesism-and how their combinations, operability, and the analyses required, shift in different contexts and lives of subjects. Focusing on France, India, Italy, and the US from the 1970s to the present, Co-Motion addresses a wide activist, artivist, and social movement archive- group statements, banners, pamphlets, graffiti, posters, poetry, sit-ins, films, art exhibits-to think and feel with the many ways that people, historically and today, come together to act. Through her expansive engagement with varied bodies of scholarship, sites of analysis, and kinds of reading, Bacchetta offers new approaches for analyzing, confronting and transforming power, and enacting freedom.

Cano, Marina / Garcia-Periago, Rosa (eds.), Women, "Failure" and Academia: Activism, Creativity and Critique in the Contemporary University. (Bloomsbury Gender and Education) 240 pp. 2026:3 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:9 <764-1259>
ISBN 978-1-350-52866-6 hard ¥27,819.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00
ISBN 978-1-350-52870-3 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

Women, "Failure" and Academia examines failures in contemporary academia, and especially the intersections between gender and academic failure. It argues that academic failure is political, and that seemingly personal failures to achieve a standard or expected academic career (tenure, funding, publications, etc.) should be understood in the context of institutional failures and systemic inequalities. Through theoretical discussions and/or personal reflections on their individual experiences of failure, contributors to the volume address how academic failure can illuminate, and sometimes subvert, the institutional barriers often faced by women and women-identifying scholars in the contemporary university. The collection is interdisciplinary, intersectional and international and covers topics such as Covid-19, precarity and job hunting, ethnic diversity, accounts of incomplete research, motherhood and disability within the academy. Contributors include established and emerging scholars in Australia, New Zealand, Spain, the UK and the USA. Conceived as scholarly activism, Women, "Failure" and Academia aims to interrogate the future of universities and challenge perceptions of failure, especially with regard to women and women-identifying academics.

Dobbs, Christina L. / Montecillo Leider, Christine (eds.), Until Every Woman Is Free: Equity and Belonging in the Academy Through Duoethnography. 286 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:5 <764-1263>
ISBN 978-1-6669-5243-8 hard ¥27,819.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-1-6669-5245-2 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

In this volume, women in academia use autoethnographic methods to document and unpack their experiences as women of color in the academy.Many higher education institutions have made public-facing, explicit commitments to diversifying and retaining faculty of color, yet research continues to document how, even under these changes, the experiences of faculty-especially women-of color have changed minimally, if at all. Through the use of duoethnography and other autoethnographic methods, this edited collection highlights the voices of women of color in academia from a range of university settings, developmental career stages, and professional trajectories, providing a space for women of color to process their own experiences navigating, surviving, and thriving in white male-dominated academia. The contributors featured in this volume offer important insights into how institutions of higher education could better support women of color professors.

Kanai, Akane, The New Politics of Online Feminism. 208 pp. 2026:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-1273>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2975-5 hard ¥23,439.- (税込) US$ 103.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3321-9 paper ¥5,850.- (税込) US$ 25.95

In The New Politics of Online Feminism, Akane Kanai argues that for young feminists, online feminist culture often poses more dilemmas than it solves. Moving beyond a narrow characterization of online feminism as a site of activism and resistance, Kanai attends to the feminist quandaries of being politically conscientious as life on- and offline become inseparable. Kanai suggests that while it has seemingly never been more important to avoid complicity with patriarchy, racism, and other oppressions, the self has remained the central site of agency and transformation-casting politics in terms of individual scrupulousness, diligence, and improvement. Under these circumstances, a feminist lens becomes about benchmarking, comparing, and anxiously avoiding the public mistakes that others make in online life. Kanai foregrounds the importance of moving beyond the polarities of correct and incorrect feeling to enable the everyday practices of listening to and learning about experience and difference.

流動的なトランスジェンダーの権利
Mezey, Susan Gluck, Transgender Rights in Flux: From Progress to Regress. 224 pp. 2026:5 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <764-1279>
ISBN 978-1-5381-9650-2 hard ¥20,091.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-5381-9651-9 paper ¥8,033.- (税込) GB￡ 25.99

Despite the advances in transgender equality that have been secured at the federal level, since 2020 there has been an upsurge in state and local government restrictions on transgender rights. Susan Gluck Mezey highlights this shift in transgender policymaking, ranging from state legislatures and city councils to school boards and library committees. In 2023 alone, hundreds of bills were introduced in Republican-led legislatures, and most of those approved were signed by GOP governors. Transgender Rights Policymaking at the State and Local Level will provide scholars, students, activists, and anyone interested in transgender rights with a detailed overview of these actions and the role that they play in the nation's continuing culture wars.

Park-Ozee, Dakota / Jordan, Jason, Rhetorics of Fairness and the Politics of Trans Exclusion. 208 pp. 2026:4 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:10 <764-1285>
ISBN 978-1-6669-8105-6 hard ¥23,182.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00
ISBN 978-1-6669-8107-0 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

In this rhetorical examination, Dakota Park-Ozee and Jason Jordan delve into the contemporary panic surrounding transgender women in sport and reveal that fairness is not a rhetorical value that promotes equality or justice, but one that further subjugates the most vulnerable in service of privilege.Rhetorics of Fairness and the Politics of Trans Exclusion addresses how the rhetorical subjugation and repression enacted by weaponizing fairness against trans women athletes contributes to material, psychological, and physical violence against not only trans people, but against anyone that must conform to the narrow grids of competition and gender proscribed by advocates for fairness. Park-Ozee and Jordan trace the uses, influences, and implications of the rhetorical weaponization of the value of fairness across discursive arenas. The authors argue those wishing to promote trans rights or other inclusive efforts should leave fairness as a key value behind, instead favoring access, opportunity, and justice. Such a reorientation serves as a reminder that the value of sport has very little to do with competitive outcomes and far more to do with community, public health, and the thrill of the game.

古代ギリシアの書簡を通じて女性の歴史を書き記す
Pontoropoulos, Antonios, Writing Herstory through Ancient Greek Letters: Representations of Women in Fictional Epistolography. 248 pp. 2026:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:7 <764-1287>
ISBN 978-1-350-40175-4 hard ¥26,273.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-40179-2 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

Offering the first comprehensive feminist analysis of ancient Greek fictional letters, this book focuses on the centuries between the Roman Imperial period and late antiquity. Through an exploration of modern French and Anglo-American feminist theory, Pontoropoulos creates an analytical framework using the scholarship of Helene Cixous and Alice Jardine. On the ancient side, the literary representations of women in the letter collections of Aelian, Alciphron and Aristaenetus form the main corpus of study.In this volume, Pontoropoulos structures his argument around three pertinent questions: can ancient fictional letters written by men tell us anything about their ancient representations of women? How do these letters inform our modern understanding of concepts such as gender and agency? Do these letter collections succeed in providing the reader with a variety of fictional female characters? The women in these literary collections are presented as speaking, rhetorical subjects that subvert the expected discourses of desire and shift the perspective from the male to the female point of view. In this sense, they not only present the reader with a highly-layered intertext, but also with a text that challenges expected gendered norms.

Statham, Simon / Ringrow, Helen, Abortion in Ireland: The Language of the Campaign for Reproductive Rights. 280 pp. 2026:3 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:8 <764-1294>
ISBN 978-1-350-33763-3 hard ¥29,364.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-350-33767-1 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

Providing an in-depth analysis of the diverse discourse types present in the fight for women's bodily autonomy in Ireland over four decades, this book explores discourse from the imposition of the Eighth Amendment in 1983 to its repeal in 2018 and beyond, adopting a mixed-methods critical linguistic approach.By applying models of analysis from across the spectrum of critical linguistics, the book maximises the potential of the analytical models prominent in critical linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), in turn maximising the number of discourse arenas available for investigation.Interdisciplinary both in terms of methodology and data, the chapters analyse a diverse range of societal texts including traditional political campaign discourse and cross-generational pro-choice leaflets. The book also assesses the utilisation of pro-choice voices in the contemporary discourse arenas of social media and broadcast entertainment, and examines politico-legal arenas such as submissions to the Citizens' Assembly and parliamentary speeches. It also scrutinises the abortion rights campaign in the north of Ireland through interviews with a range of campaigners.In addressing the specific complex issue of abortion rights and exposing relevant data to diverse linguistic scrutiny, the book showcases the methodological rigour of critical linguistics in original research. Against the backdrop of ongoing reproductive rights debates in the USA, Europe and internationally, this book is a comprehensive analysis of the linguistic strategies of a major social event which continues to resonate across the world.

ヨーロッパの大革命における女性－ジェンダー、文化、階級、国家
Stone, Bailey, Women in the Great European Revolutions: Gender, Culture, Class, and the State. 328 pp. 2026:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <764-1295>
ISBN 979-87-651-5323-9 hard ¥27,819.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00
ISBN 979-87-651-5322-2 paper ¥6,796.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99

This book explores and compares the roles, mentalities, and destinies of elitist and working-class women in Europe's most dramatic revolutions: England's "Puritan Revolution" of 1640-1660, France's 1789 Revolution, and Russia's 1917 Revolution.By providing one of the most detailed analyses to date of how feminist historians, sociologists, and specialists theorize gender, sexuality, and patriarchy the author draws connections to current debate over the causation of sociopolitical revolutions; and how such scholars speculate about the long-term implications of such revolutions for women in the USA and in other countries. This book briefly outlines the stage-by-stage progression of events in the English, French, and Russian Revolutions, thus enabling the general reader to contextualize more easily its discussion of women's revolutionary experiences in those countries.This book reappraises the relative importance ascribable to gendered/cultural and to statist/geopolitical factors through the disastrous revolutionary careers of three consort queens: i.e., Henrietta Maria of England, Marie-Antoinette of France, and Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia. by contrasting their political failings with the political acumen of three earlier regnant queens in these three countries: i.e., Elizabeth I, Catherine de Medicis, and Catherine II ("the Great.")Finally, this book demonstrates how women of humble social station used these unheard-of revolutionary situations either to express their grievances and voice their social aspirations or, on the other hand, to reaffirm their long-held allegiance to traditional principles, customs, and religion. It concludes by discussing race/ethnicity and statism as challenging issues that need to be confronted in any current discussion of women's revolutionary experiences.

Weeks, Kathi, Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures. 304 pp. 2026:3 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-1301>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2984-7 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3328-8 paper ¥6,527.- (税込) US$ 28.95

Abolitionist Archives, Feminist Futures takes up the work of three iconic feminist thinkers-Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway-to ask how each author's vision of work, the family, and the carceral state can expand contemporary feminism's ability to structurally analyze social problems. Kathi Weeks examines the archive of this unexpected collection of Marxist feminists whose works are united by their abolitionist approaches, arguing that feminism can gain a broader constituency by taking up anti-capitalist critique and praxis. Across the book's chapters, Weeks recontextualizes well-known feminist texts in a new and original light, bringing their insight from the past into the present and future of abolitionist politics.

Weikle, Kelly M., Postpartum Depression and the Communicative Construction of Maternal Identity: Motherhood in Tension. 128 pp. 2026:4 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:7 <764-1302>
ISBN 978-1-6669-6112-6 hard ¥23,182.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00
ISBN 979-82-16-38939-2 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

In this book, Kelly M. Weikle contends that foregrounding lived experiences and applying identity as a lens to the study of postpartum depression provides a uniquely powerful perspective through which we can better understand both the condition and how to effectively support mothers during the postpartum period. Using the Communication Theory of Identity as a sensitizing framework, Weikle incorporates interviews with women who have experienced postpartum depression and autoethnographic insights from her own experience to demonstrate how expectations from others, close personal relationships, and dominant ideologies of "good" and "bad" motherhood can coalesce with mental health to shape each mother's postpartum experience on an individual level. While these tensions and challenges are not strictly medical and are thus more easily overlooked, they can manifest through devastating health crises including extreme anxiety and obsessions, intrusive thoughts of escape, bouts of insomnia, and intense feelings of overwhelm and maternal failure. Ultimately, Weikle's analysis contributes to scholarship across fields and disciplines through its investigation into how and why loss of control and loss of self can manifest-and the significance of those manifestations-in the postpartum context. This work thus sets a foundation and an impetus for researchers and practitioners to take these factors into consideration as they work to develop more impactful support for postpartum mothers.

Velocci, Beans, Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary. 312 pp. 2026:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-132>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2959-5 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3302-8 paper ¥6,752.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In Sex Isn't Real, Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Drawing on lab notes, family genealogies, medical case studies, and more, Velocci follows scientists and clinicians from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century and across five disciplines - zoology, eugenics, gynecology, statistical sexology, and transsexual medicine - as their ideas and practices created a definitional tangle. They demonstrate how the sorting of bodies into male and female persists not despite but because of sex's incoherence: the defining features of these categories shift to contain various understandings of anatomy and physiology, theories of race, developments in research and medical methodologies, and bodies that cannot be accounted for in a binary framework. Exposing the endless work required to produce a world in which most people have a binary gender identity that neatly fits their binarily sexed body, Velocci demonstrates that it is not cis people who fit the categories; it's the categories that flex to make them fit.

Beggan, James K., The Strategic Use of Fidelity in Romantic Relationships: Defensive Monogamy and Self-Protection. 296 pp. 2026:3 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:7 <764-1035>
ISBN 978-1-6669-8114-8 hard ¥24,728.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-6669-8116-2 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

This book offers a bold reinterpretation of monogamy, framing it not as a reflection of romantic desire but as a calculated effort to secure exclusivity from a partner.Despite widespread dissatisfaction, infidelity, and high divorce rates, monogamy remains the dominant relationship model. Rather than attributing this persistence to irrationality or tradition, James K. Beggan explores monogamy as a defensive practice-a strategic agreement in which individuals seek commitment primarily to ensure their partner's fidelity. Rooted in fear of loss, jealousy, and emotional insecurity, this book reveals how monogamy often functions as a protective mechanism rather than a mutual aspiration. People overestimate their ability-or willingness-to uphold monogamous commitments, viewing them less as personal convictions and more as tools for managing risk. Drawing on interdisciplinary research across behavioral economics, psychology, sociology, and decision science, this book reconceptualizes monogamy as a form of social bargaining. By shifting the focus from morality to strategy, it challenges the ideal of romantic exclusivity and raises a provocative question: Are declarations of loyalty expressions of love, or are they evidence of doubt dressed as devotion?

Razack, Sabrina, Digital Black Feminism in the Global Sports Arena: Black Girl Hockey Club, Joy and Racial Justice. (New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures) 242 pp. 2026:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <764-1047>
ISBN 978-981-9547-38-8 hard ¥31,808.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book examines the intersections of sport, race, gender, social networks and social movements with a case study of the North-American nonprofit organization 'Black Girl Hockey Club' (BGHC). The landscape of sport and social movements has dramatically shifted through the advent of the internet and social media. A case in point is the transformation of the BGHC, a racial justice movement which morphed from an online sports fan collective to an anti-racism union, combining political action with the joy of sport. In the context of these shifting digital realities, Digital Black Feminism in the Global Sports Arena offers a unique perspective of social movements. The book posits that BGHC was thrust into anti-racism work because of political openings connected to racial reckonings resulting from the murder of George Floyd and ongoing efforts of #BlackLivesMatter activism. Integrating in-depth content discourse analysis and qualitative interviews with affiliated members of the BGHC, the author explores how digital networks influenced sports-based racial justice movements. While being particularly relevant to Black academics formally colonised by European countries, this book will appeal globally to students and scholars interested in the intersections of sociology, sports, race and ethnicity, feminist theory and gender studies, social movements, fandoms and digital sociology.

Sharma, Sarah, Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech. 222 pp. 2026:4 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-1053>
ISBN 978-1-4780-3364-6 hard ¥23,439.- (税込) US$ 103.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3855-9 paper ¥5,850.- (税込) US$ 25.95

In a world seemingly run by the whims and power plays of Musks and Zucks, Insufferable Tools cuts to the core of modern technology's gendered politics. Sarah Sharma challenges the idea that the Big Tech broligarchs are neutral utilitarians who view technology as mere tools. She shows instead how these tech giants have turned the internet, and, increasingly, "real life" into a set of environments which they cultivate and manipulate to wield the real tools: us, the users. Sharma critiques a popular system of inclusion she calls "Big Tech Feminism" that attempts to incorporate and make useful people of color, queer people, and others who are seen as broken machines in the current gendered power structures. Deconstructing Big Tech's patriarchal deployment of media theory to gain and maintain power, Sharma proposes a feminist techno-politics that can forge new futures free from the grip of the truly insufferable tools.

Charlery, Helene / Maury, Cristelle (eds.), Feminist Visions: Tracing Feminist Epistemologies in Contemporary Film and Television. 232 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:8 <764-1063>
ISBN 978-1-350-41771-7 hard ¥26,273.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-41775-5 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

What does feminist filmmaking in the 21st century look like? This book assesses the influence of Western feminist theory on contemporary film and television - nearly fifty years after Claire Johnston and Laura Mulvey called for a feminist counter-cinema - highlighting the cross-fertilization between feminist film theory and practice.Is there a #Metoo genre? Have traditional Hollywood genres been reframed? How has intersectional feminist film theory been explored on screen? In essays spanning film and television in a broad range of genres from the US, the UK and India, contributors renew definitions of feminist filmmaking since second wave feminist film scholars first grappled with the image of women in film and the role of women in the film industry. Feminist Visions provides an insightful space for discussion of feminist film theory as applied to recent TV series such as Devious Maids (2013-2016), Unbelievable (2019), Greenleaf (2016-2020), I May Destroy You (2020) and Insecure (2016-2021) and films including Maid in Manhattan (2002), Night Moves (2014), Gone Girl (2014), I Care a Lot (2020) and The Discreet Charm of the Savarnas (2020).

Gilchrist, Kate R., Fantasies of Singledom: Living in the Cultural Imaginary of Single Femininity. 200 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:5 <764-1071>
ISBN 978-1-6669-6689-3 hard ¥24,728.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 979-82-16-38451-9 paper ¥12,347.- (税込) GB￡ 39.95

In Fantasies of Singledom, Kate R. Gilchrist examines how the representation of the single woman manifests itself in contemporary popular culture across the United Kingdom, the United States, and Europe, placing this image in juxtaposition to the lived experiences and self-narratives of single femininity in everyday life.Gilchrist skillfully brings these two conceptualizations of feminine singlehood into conversation with one another by incorporating in-depth interviews with twenty-five women living in London alongside critical analyses of eight cross-genre media texts which foreground single women. In doing so, she illuminates not only the ways in which women's experiences draw on or converge with media representations, but also where their narratives resist or rework such ideas, interrogating recurring themes of success, transformation, autonomy, silencing, invisibility, and-perhaps most prominently-the notion of the "ideal" femininity being a coupled one.Building on research that has largely centered on North American contexts until now, Gilchrist also considers how these discourses manifest intersectionally, demonstrating the necessity of a multi-faceted approach in achieving a fuller understanding of how experiences of singledom are shaped by external factors. Ultimately, Fantasies of Singledom significantly expands upon and complicates existing theorizations of the relationship between cultural representation and gendered subjectivity formation in postfeminist cultural contexts.

Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor, The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024. 248 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:5 <764-1078>
ISBN 978-1-6669-0662-2 hard ¥27,819.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00
ISBN 979-82-16-37781-8 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

This book examines the ways in which popular culture has entertained the notion of a female U.S. presidency through portrayals in film, television, and literature dating back to the 1930s.To date, no woman has served as Commander in Chief in the White House. This lack of precedent, however, has not deterred the continued exploration of this idea in U.S. popular culture for decades. In this book, Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman analyzes fictionalized portrayals of female U.S. Presidents across a variety of media, spanning both genre and time period, to demonstrate how the perceptions of audiences and content creators have shifted when considering the idea of a woman's ability to run the United States. She then contextualizes each example by positioning it alongside real-life women in politics to examine the accuracy of existing portrayals when compared to the media framing of aspiring political candidates.By analyzing works diverse in genre, including science fiction dystopias, slapstick comedias, political dramas, satire, and romance novels, Kollman also explores the ways in which genre can also play a critical factor in the framing of these women with regard to both subject matter and approach. Scholars interested in parasocial relationships, the history of feminist movements, the intersection of political and media audiences, and popular media trends will find this book particularly compelling.

Wyke, Maria / Wozniak, Monika (eds.), Audio-Visual Roman Women: Gender, History and Screen Media. (IMAGINES - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts) 352 pp. 2026:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:7 <764-1105>
ISBN 978-1-350-46183-3 hard ¥27,819.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00
ISBN 978-1-350-46187-1 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

This open-access book is an interdisciplinary and transnational study of how screen media can shape our perception of Roman women and project present gender inequalities onto them. Maria Wyke and Monika Wozniak explore a range of representations that have given life to Roman women through a multisensory experience of history as image, movement and sound, starting from the 1900s through to the 2020s (from the arrival of cinema to the ascendance of video games). This book asks: what sources do screen media draw on for their Roman women (given the scarcity of suitable ancient material), how are they assembled aesthetically and ideologically using the specific devices of such media (from camerawork to gameplay), and who are they made by and for (especially in terms of gender)?Each chapter investigates the diverse ways these representations interlock with the social position of women at the time in which they were made, and consider to what extent they have responded to the emergence of feminism, the revisionist scholarship on ancient women that emerged in the mid-1970s, and the rise of the #MeToo movement from 2006. The challenge of creating authentic yet compelling portrayals of Roman women is greater than ever, in a media culture marked by anti-feminist rhetoric and a wide gap between our ancient sources (where female agency is tightly constrained) and current expectations for powerful women in popular culture. The volume will therefore provide a stronger platform on which to build the Roman women of the future.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University College London.

Cover, Rob / Monaghan, Whitney / Richards, S. et al., Australian Queer Screens: Diversity and Social Change in Film and TV. 256 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:8 <764-1113>
ISBN 979-87-651-2842-8 hard ¥27,819.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00
ISBN 979-87-651-2843-5 paper ¥6,796.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99

This is the first book-length study of Australia's rich history of LGBTQ+ film and television, covering histories, production, screen representation and audience identities.Despite a long-standing international field of queer media studies, Australian scholarship has only recently emerged. Screen diversity in Australia is important to cultural policy, education and social harmony. This book presents new scholarship on the role and significance of gender- and sexually-diverse characters, themes and narratives on Australian screens, as Australian film and television has a very rich history of representing LGBTQ+, gender- and sexually-diverse characters, stories and themes.The chapters in this book cover a broad range of areas to provide a comprehensive overview of LGBTQ+ film and television in Australia, including: the history and formation of LGBTQ+ screen representation in such film and TV series as Dad and Dave Come To Town, Lovers and Luggers, Cop Shop, Division 4, and Homicide; production perspectives and challenges, including insights from screen writers and actors; the significance of LGBTQ+ film festivals as part of Australian cultural heritage; analyses of key Australian queer film and TV series to draw out themes that foreground their 'Australianness', including The Set, Victims, and Boys in the Band, among others; and perspectives on audience and culture, including the utility and value of LGBTQ+ screen representation to identity, belonging and social change.

Engelberg, Jacob, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression. (A Camera Obscura Book) 360 pp. 2026:1 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-1116>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2952-6 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3298-4 paper ¥6,752.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression, Jacob Engelberg makes the case for radically recalibrating queer film studies, taking as a starting point those cinematic figures who resist categorization within the gay-straight binary. Engelberg's engagement with bisexual transgression on film illuminates the mutability and instability of sexuality, and of sociocultural structures more broadly by resisting the censure of images as politically harmful as well as the celebration of transgression as inherently subversive. Instead, Engelberg understands bisexual transgression as a process whereby sociocultural rules are made knowable by being contested. From 1970s vampire films to 1990s erotic thrillers, from lesbian imaginings of female bisexuality to European art cinema's reckonings with HIV/AIDS, bisexual figures on film embody anxieties around the precarity of binary sexuality while revealing the contingencies of sexuality's cinematic signification. Revivifying the underexploited contributions of bisexual theory, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression proposes a new mode of film theorization and analysis that examines the rich space between and beyond dominant categories of sexual organization, where sexual unpredictability, the allure of the forbidden, and the precarity of sexual signification are illuminated.

Francis, Marc, Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon. (A Camera Obscura Book) 304 pp. 2026:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-1117>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2963-2 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3308-0 paper ¥7,203.- (税込) US$ 31.95 *

In Curating Deviance, Marc Francis scavenges film history for signs of vibrant, wayward life in the film programming of US art house and repertory cinemas between 1968 and 1989. Francis examines how creative and savvy programmers screened films by the likes of John Waters, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Russ Meyer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and a bevy of others in major cities across the United States, forming intertextual constellations in their repertory calendars. These programs allied a dizzying range of sexual and gendered outlaws, including stigmatized practices often overlooked by LGBT-focused queer theory. Curating Deviance reveals how repertory and art cinemas built a coalition of outcasts stigmatized for their taboo desires or identities, rekindling queer utopian imaginaries.

Harrison, Rebecca, Decoding Star Wars: Gender, Race and the Power of Code in a Galaxy Far, Far Away. 256 pp. 2026:3 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <764-1119>
ISBN 978-1-5013-4831-0 hard ¥22,255.- (税込) GB￡ 72.00

Decoding Star Wars reveals the relationships between films, code, software and power both on and off screen in the Star Wars universe.Since the production and release of The Phantom Menace (1999), the Star Wars franchise has increasingly relied on computer code to tell its stories and circulate its various media via CGI, digital exhibition, and online distribution. But who writes the code and develops the software that makes Star Wars possible as it expands from the twentieth into the 21st century? How do programmers' identities inform how they design and circulate the films? And why does the history of code remain hidden in narratives about Star Wars filmmaking and viewing? Decoding Star Wars answers these questions to reveal how gender and race are central to the Star Wars universe, from the creation of its algorithms to the ways that characters are represented onscreen. In addition, it demonstrates how cinema is complicated by computers, digital technologies, and power, in ways that are so far unexplored in film history.

Jontef, Jade, Sex, Censorship and the Millennial Teen Film. (Library of Gender and Popular Culture) 280 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:9 <764-1122>
ISBN 978-1-350-44247-4 hard ¥26,273.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00
ISBN 978-1-350-44251-1 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

Through an in-depth analysis of iconic teen movies, this study explores how popular representations of sexual pleasure and desire reinforce institutionalised gender norms and heteronormativity. Jade Jontef argues that in light of the recent revival of and nostalgia for popular culture spanning from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, teen films such as Clueless (1995), American Pie (1999), and Cruel Intentions (1999) continue to influence thinking around sex, gender and sexuality. Drawing examples from Western film classification and ratings policies, she argues that these films present a homogenous and exclusionary form of teenhood, providing millennial audiences a limited perspective of youth culture informed by white, middle-class sensibilities and notions of 'proper' sexual behaviour.Combining close textual analysis with a uniquely socio-legal framework, Jontef interrogates the relationship between cinematic representation and institutional regulations. She highlights how dominant Anglo-American narratives perpetuate exclusionary ideas of adolescence and limited constructions of gender and sexuality.