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

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.

Dunz-Keck, Jana Sina, Migration and Heritage: Gender Mining the 19th-Century German-American Press. (Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics) 300 pp. 2026:2 (de Gruyter, GW) <758-973>
ISBN 978-3-11-166439-2 hard ¥12,691.- (税込) EUR 49.95

フランスにおける極右、フェミニスト、『移民』の運動　1965～85年
Jacobs, Christian, The Politics of Culture: Far-right, Feminist and "Immigrant" Movements in France, ca. 1965 to 1985. (The Politics of Historical Thinking 9) 430 pp. 2025:11 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <758-985>
ISBN 978-3-11-914777-4 hard ¥25,396.- (税込) EUR 99.95

The book analyzes how three political movements used the concept of culture in France between the late 1960s and the early 1980s: the women's movement, the postmigrant movement, and a far-right group called GRECE. The book asks what culture meant for the movements and when and why activists evoked the concept. Two overall trends shaped concepts of culture during the period of investigation. First, decolonization as an intellectual and political development redefined political key concepts such as culture. Second, change through culture replaced visions in which the state was the central instrument for political change. At the same time, specific surrounding contexts, such as legal, financial, and cultural resources, the movements’ sociologies, and the political environments with their dominant discourses, potential allies, and enemies shaped the intellectual histories of the political movements. By studying political movements as production sites of a concept, the book connects intellectual history to political and social history. It studies intellectual labor beyond famous individuals and as much in practice as in theory.

Donaghy, Paige, Mola, False Conception, and False Pregnancy in British Medicine, 1550-1850. (Science in Culture, c.350 - c.1750) 240 pp. 2026:1 (Durham U. IMEMS Pr., UK) <758-68>
ISBN 978-1-914967-17-7 hard ¥25,058.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

When reproduction defied certainty, it unsettled medicine, law, and belief. This book reveals how ambiguous pregnancies reshaped knowledge, emotion, and the cultural meaning of conception across centuries. Across the long duree of the early-modern period, British medical practitioners and society at large were preoccupied with the elusive phenomenon of "false generation"-a term encompassing false conceptions, molae, moles, and spurious pregnancies. These non-foetal pregnancies, often indistinguishable from true gestations, generated profound uncertainty in medical, legal, and theological thought. Drawing on sources ranging from anatomical treatises and midwifery manuals to women's letters, diaries, and court records, Donaghy traces how false generation shaped reproductive knowledge and understandings of the embodied experience. Through case studies such as Mary I and Joanna Southcott, the book highlights how reproductive ambiguity was not merely a private ordeal but a public and intellectual crisis. Engaging with figures like Galen, Jean Fernel, Francois Valleriola, and Frederik Ruysch, the book situates British debates within wider contemporaneous European contexts as well as a transhistorical development of medical knowledge. By foregrounding uncertainty as both an emotional and conceptual force, this monograph contributes to the history of emotions, knowledge, and the body. It offers a field-defining account of how false generation unsettled assumptions about life, conception, and pregnancy, and how these ideas evolved into modern categories such as molar pregnancy. The book speaks directly to current debates in reproductive justice and healthcare, while presenting a compelling case for the historical contingency of reproductive knowledge and the diverse ways it has been shaped by cultural, scientific, and experiential factors.

Chapdelaine-Feliciati, Clara (ed.), Girls' Positionalities at the Intersection of Identity and Violence. (Gender, Justice and Legal Feminism 6) 517 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <758-470>
ISBN 978-3-032-06469-1 hard ¥50,816.- (税込) EUR 199.99

The edited volume explores the unique positionality of girls as they experience gender-based violence. While girl children are often placed under the umbrella of womanhood, their location at the intersection of femalehood and childhood places them in a unique position with regards to various forms of exploitation and violence. Feminist theories, including feminist legal theory, provide pertinent avenues to explore girls' positionalities, yet girl children should also be contextualized in relation to their current lived experiences. This book firstly explores the cultural and visual portrayal of girlhood and its relationship with gender-based violence, and secondly provides case studies of specific violations of human rights encompassing sexual violence and exploitation. It considers legal, social and economic avenues to support girls in reclaiming their identity, dignity and bodily integrity.

Greene, Joss T., Gender Bound: Prisons, Trans Lives, and the Abolitionist Horizon. 202 pp. 2026:6 (U. California Pr., US) <758-476>
ISBN 978-0-520-43121-8 hard ¥20,691.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41285-9 paper ¥7,612.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Transgender-responsive policies might seem like a radical idea for prisons, but California's creation of tailored housing policies for gender-nonconforming prisoners began in 1941. In Gender Bound, Joss T. Greene investigates how and why California prisons have attempted to manage gender nonconformity over the past eighty years, and how incarcerated people have responded in turn. Drawing on archival research, ethnographic observation, and 136 interviews with formerly incarcerated trans people, advocates, policymakers, and former prison staff, Gender Bound offers new insight into the history of gender, the intersectional nature of punishment, and steadfast struggles for freedom.

Valente, Mariana, Online Misogyny in Brazil: Law, Internet Governance, and the Struggle for Gender Justice. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 119 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <758-486>
ISBN 978-3-032-07726-4 hard ¥12,701.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book tells the story of how Congress and courts have responded to online misogyny and online gender-based violence in Brazil. As thousands of women, young and old, famous and anonymous, are targeted with online violence violating their freedoms in Brazil, civil society has fought for the recognition of the problem of online misogyny in the law. In her exploration of this evolving landscape, Mariana Valente unpacks how the shifting political landscape of the last decade in Brazil has intersected with feminist movements and internet policy discussions, and the resulting legislative developments. Drawing from almost fifteen years of research, the book brings the key cases and political fights that moved the conversation forward and how Congress and courts responded to the issue. It also deals with how foreign digital platforms gave rise to conflicts between the local and the transnational. Problems such as nonconsensual dissemination of intimate images, hate speech and political violence against women on social media are interwoven with critical legal and social theory. The result is a picture of the centrality of online misogyny to the recent political developments in Brazil and the advances and failures of the law in responding to the problem from an intersectional perspective. By analysing the fight against online misogyny in one of the largest countries in the world, Online Misogyny in Brazil: Law, Internet Governance, and the Struggle for Gender Justice showcases strategies to achieve one of the main targets of SDG 5: "End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere". This is a revised and expanded English edition of a book originally published in Portuguese. The translation of the original manuscript into English was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

Weiss, Benjamin R., The Price of Justice: Money and the Limits of Sexual Violence Lawsuits. (Gender and Justice 13) 232 pp. 2026:6 (U. California Pr., US) <758-488>
ISBN 978-0-520-40549-3 hard ¥20,691.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40550-9 paper ¥6,523.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Given an unpredictable criminal legal system and a fraying social safety net, sexual violence victims increasingly turn to civil lawsuits to find justice. They sue offenders and responsible organizations directly, seeking recognition, resources, and reform. But at what cost? Benjamin R. Weiss uses in-depth interviews and legal case analysis to reveal how the civil legal system's reliance on financial compensation to remedy sexual harm limits who can seek civil justice and on what terms. He shows that instead of delivering justice, the process often deepens inequalities and compounds suffering, especially for those most in need. In The Price of Justice, Weiss offers victims, advocates, and academics alike an astute assessment of the law's promise to rectify harm and redistribute power-while inspiring readers to imagine what it would take to meet all victims' needs and drive lasting social change.

Wheeler, Andrea / Carter, Jennifer (eds.), Approaching a Sensitive Thinking with Luce Irigaray. 338 pp. 2026:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-57>
ISBN 978-3-032-00269-3 hard ¥35,570.- (税込) EUR 139.99

While considering sensitivity lower than thought, our tradition left sensitivity uncultivated and thinking a mental concern, which limited human development. Making flower our whole being requires us to surmount such hierarchy towards a sensitive thinking. This book, inspired by Luce Irigaray's Sharing the Fire, undertakes to approach this further cultural stage by focusing attention on life and sharing in education but also in relating to our environment, be it natural, sociocultural or technological as well as in our contribution to a sensitive thinking in art, spirituality, ethics and politics. This can lead on to a culture which gives up past confinements in systematic closures of understanding by favouring difference over sameness, subject-subject logic over subject-object logic, sharing over individual mastery, touch over sight. The teaching of the confinement due to the COVID-19 virus ought to incite us to enter into such a new, universally open, cultural era.

Ramet, Sabrina P. / Dordevic, Vladimir et al. (eds.), Civic and Uncivic Values in Slovakia: Culture, Media, Gender, and Ethnic Minorities. 350 pp. 2026:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-601>
ISBN 978-3-031-93573-2 hard ¥38,111.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Like other countries in East Central Europe, the Slovak Republic is facing new challenges which were not on the horizon at the time the communist system collapsed and there are worries that this country, with the pro-Russian Prime Minister Robert Fico now at the helm, might be at risk of democratic backsliding. One of the key factors determining whether Slovakia will weather its current political difficulties or slide away from democracy is the strength of civic values such as tolerance, respect for the equality of people, and readiness to play by the rules of the political game. This book looks at the record of the Slovak Republic in the years since 1993, taking into consideration politics, values as reflected in public opinion surveys, gender inequality, and the values communicated in literature, religion, and film. In addition, the volume takes a look at ethnic minorities, focusing especially on Slovakia's Hungarian minority.

レシュケ綾香著　フクシマの遺産
Loeschke, Ayaka, Fukushima Legacies: National Advocacy and Mothers Against Radiation. (Ostasien im 21. Jahrhundert) 255 pp. 2025:12 (Springer VS, GW) <758-603>
ISBN 978-3-658-49654-8 paper ¥10,160.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This Open-Access-book focuses on the legacies of post-Fukushima activism, which are linked to significant changes in Japan's civil society. Thirteen years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The Japanese government tries to convey the impression that Japan has fully recovered and regained a sense of normalcy. But Japan continues to grapple with the effects of the nuclear disaster, and the government's plans are beginning to falter. Japan's civil society, which has strengthened and accumulated legacies-such as established networks, shared scientific knowledge, and advocacy experience- over a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, has been a key force of resistance to the government's plans. Post-Fukushima activism has extended its repertoire and thereby firmly shaped various legacies for future social movements.The book concentrates on the following three aspects that have not been thoroughly examined in previous research: The national advocacy of civil society organisations through a special type of legislation called a 'Diet member bill'; the backgrounds of mothers and other women mobilised for CSOs with a focus on advocacy; and the longevity of these CSOs.

女性、平和、安全保障のアジェンダを擁護する
Achilleos-Sarll, Columba, Advocating for the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda. 272 pp. 2026:8 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <758-620>
ISBN 978-0-19-894901-5 hard ¥30,659.- (税込) GB￡ 104.00

Galbraith, Eilidh, Incredible Women: Chronic Pain and Disbelief Across History, Society, and Theology. 326 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-287>
ISBN 978-3-032-05945-1 hard ¥30,488.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book explores the 'gender pain gap'-the systemic disparities in how women's chronic pain and illness are perceived, believed, and treated. Focusing especially on conditions without visible markers, Eilidh Galbraith examines why women's pain remains socially, culturally, and theologically problematic. Through interdisciplinary analysis and qualitative storytelling, she investigates how power dynamics shape medical responses and influence women's credibility as narrators of their own suffering. Drawing on feminist theology, trauma studies, and health research, Galbraith weaves together her own experiences with those of other women to reveal how silence and disbelief impact health outcomes and identity. This deeply personal study challenges dominant narratives and calls for a more compassionate, justice-oriented approach to women's pain.

Morse, Jaimie, Bodies of Evidence: A History of Rape Kit Protocols in US Emergency Nursing and Global Humanitarian Medicine. 236 pp. 2026:6 (U. California Pr., US) <758-294>
ISBN 978-0-520-42890-4 hard ¥20,691.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-42891-1 paper ¥7,612.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Bodies of Evidence disrupts popular understandings of the rape kit by examining it as a complex assemblage of practices and protocols that stands at the uneasy nexus of law and medicine. Jaimie Morse traces how this assemblage was championed as a rights project in medicine, moving from the margins to the center of health care responses to sexual violence through new clinical standards of care, first in the United States and then in global humanitarian medicine. Drawing on archival research, interviews with experts and activists, and fieldwork at international meetings, the book chronicles a novel process of legal mobilization in medicine and interrogates the existential meanings and stakes of rape kits, their associated practices, and their underlying assumptions and expectations for survivors of sexual violence.

Randles, Jennifer, Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood. 296 pp. 2026:2 (U. California Pr., US) <758-298>
ISBN 978-0-520-40119-8 hard ¥20,691.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40120-4 paper ¥6,523.- (税込) US$ 29.95

A revealing account of parenting in a country that neglects the needs of poor families-through the humble diaper. Many of us take diapers for granted. Yet diaper insecurity is a common, often hidden consequence of poverty in the US, where nearly half of American families with young children struggle to get enough diapers. Drawing on interviews with mothers dealing with this overlooked issue, Jennifer Randles shows how diapers have unique practical and symbolic significance for the well-being of families. Tracing the social history of diapering, Randles unravels a complex story of caregiving inequalities, the environmental impacts of child-rearing, and responsibility for meeting children's basic needs. Yet it is also a hopeful story: the book chronicles the work of people who manage diaper banks as well as the growing diaper distribution movement. A hard-nosed yet nuanced tale of parenting, Living Diaper to Diaper is an eye-opening examination of inequality and poverty in America.

Xie, Lei, Challenges and Strategies of Professional Women in Contemporary China: Narrative and Analysis of Gender Dynamics in the Workplace. (Diversity and Inclusion Research) 158 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <758-378>
ISBN 978-3-032-04609-3 hard ¥38,111.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book explores the challenges and dilemmas faced by professional women in contemporary China. Through an interconnection of storytelling and academic analysis, the book unravels complex themes of gender discrimination, workplace dynamics, gender roles, and societal expectations of today's professional Chinese women in China. The author provides historical insights from the Women's Emancipation Movement in China and explores the challenges Chinese women continue to encounter as they strive for professional growth while navigating personal relationships and Chinese cultural norms. This book is ideal for academics, scholars, practitioners, and policy makers interested in the gender roles in the workplace in China.

Berges, Sandrine, No Place Like Home: Women Philosophers' Struggles with Domesticity. 208 pp. 2026:3 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <758-40>
ISBN 978-0-19-768738-3 hard ¥7,612.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Stell, William, Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity. 304 pp. 2026:5 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <758-144>
ISBN 978-0-691-26894-1 hard ¥6,523.- (税込) US$ 29.95

A groundbreaking history of evangelicalism and homosexuality in the United StatesEvangelicals claim that their opposition to homosexuality is an inherent feature of their faith, rooted in their unchanging beliefs about the Bible. Most scholars, journalists, and observers have accepted this account; in Born Again Queer, William Stell upends it. Arguing that the antigay majority in evangelicalism has been less dominant and more vulnerable than previously thought, Stell describes a network of authors, ministers, and professors-all veterans of major evangelical institutions-who worked in the 1970s and 1980s to persuade Christians that their churches should affirm the relationships and ministries of gay and lesbian members. By the late 1970s, some even thought that these activists might shape the future of evangelicalism.Of course, that speculation proved mistaken, and the antigay evangelical majority eventually overpowered the gay-affirming minority. Stell's history of the rise and fall of evangelical gay activism shines a light on this largely forgotten chapter in American evangelicalism. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, Stell documents the work of four prominent activists: the founder of a predominantly LGBTQ+ denomination called the Metropolitan Community Churches, the leader of a gay advocacy organization called Evangelicals Concerned, and the evangelical feminist coauthors of the influential book Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? By recovering the successes of evangelical gay activists and the struggles of their opponents, Stell's account transforms how we think about evangelicalism, how we talk about the culture wars, and how we approach both religion in queer movements and queer activism in religious movements.

Trzebiatowska, Marta / Bruce, Steve, Sexual Abuse in Religion. 267 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-147>
ISBN 978-3-032-04990-2 hard ¥11,431.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This book examines the complex and troubling relationship between religion and sexual abuse through a sociological lens. Drawing on hundreds of examples spanning two centuries, it offers a comparative analysis of abuse in religious versus secular contexts and investigates systematic differences across various religions. From motives and opportunities to the organisational constraints that shield perpetrators, the study uncovers patterns that highlight gender as a central factor shaping the dynamics of abuse and the challenges in addressing it. The book explores two critical questions: does sexual exploitation within religious or spiritual contexts differ significantly from its secular counterpart? And do different religious traditions systematically foster or inhibit such misconduct? While predatory behaviour is not unique to religion, this study considers whether religious settings are particularly susceptible to abuse and whether the characteristics of such exploitation vary between faiths. Using case studies from major world religions, New Age spirituality, and predominantly Western contexts like the UK and USA, the book delves into how religious authority and cultural silences create environments ripe for exploitation. It also addresses false accusations, contextualising how religious rivalries often weaponise claims of sexual misconduct. This accessible yet rigorous study draws parallels with secular abuses and highlights the broader implications for institutions and communities. With its analytical depth and clear presentation, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the intersection of faith, power, and vulnerability in the context of sexual abuse.

Zok, Michael / Korczak-Siedlecka, Jasmina (eds.), Sex Lives and Churches in Polish Territories Through the Ages: Forbidden Fruit. (Genders and Sexualities in History) 306 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <758-152>
ISBN 978-3-032-00414-7 hard ¥35,570.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book analyzes the relation between the Churches' official teachings regarding 'desired' and forbidden forms of sexual behaviour on the one hand, and mundane practice on the other hand, focusing on perspectives 'from below'. Since the very beginning, Christianity has sought to regulate the love lives of its believers. The clergy's growing influence on state institutions and the introduction of Christian sexual ethics left its mark on law, education and social norms. However, the everyday lives of most believers had little in common with the sexual norms propagated by clerics. The territory of Poland is especially interesting due to the fact that over the centuries different Christian confessions as well as distinct ethnic groups with various cultural norms co-existed there. Additionally, this edited collection looks at different groups of actors, such as peasants, the clergy or townspeople from the Early Middle Ages until the late twentieth century, and also includes different types of sources as well as of methodological approaches. This long-term perspective shows the impact and influence of Church teachings in a longue duree, and highlights social factors that both shaped discourses on sexuality and also indicated the changing power of the Church.

Martell, Michael E. / Roncolato, Leanne, Queering Economics: Reimagining the Dismal Science. 302 pp. 2026:5 (U. California Pr., US) <758-169>
ISBN 978-0-520-41329-0 hard ¥6,087.- (税込) US$ 27.95

How queering economics will better serve society. The field of economics is tremendously influential, and it is also one of the least diverse and most exclusionary social science disciplines. Economists Michael Martell and Leanne Roncolato reveal how economics has created a dangerous hierarchy that deters dissent and marginalizes underrepresented voices, and provide an argument for how diversification can benefit the field. By highlighting the voices of LGBTQ+ economists, who offer first-person accounts of how the field continues to disadvantage and exclude, and equipped with qualitative and quantitative data, the authors follow their call to action with a step-by-step plan for queering economics. Drawing on critical race, feminist, and queer perspectives and movements, Queering Economics shows how making economics inclusive benefits all of us. Not only will the field benefit from attracting the best and most diverse talent; it will also allow the discipline to better represent the various ways we experience the economy while promoting prosperity and inclusion for all, especially the most vulnerable.

Mickey, Ethel, Networking to Nowhere: How Gender Inequality Persists in Tech. 260 pp. 2026:6 (U. California Pr., US) <758-263>
ISBN 978-0-520-40429-8 hard ¥20,691.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40430-4 paper ¥6,523.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Why does gender inequality persist in tech-even in workplaces that invest in fixing it? In Networking to Nowhere, sociologist Ethel Mickey uncovers the paradox at the heart of modern tech culture: Networking is hailed as the key to opportunity, yet it systematically works against women. Drawing on ethnographic research inside a top tech firm, Mickey reveals how "ideal" networking practices like informal referrals, after-hours schmoozing, and bro-bonding over sports reinforce old boys' clubs that exclude women and people of color. Women, encouraged to lean into formal events, conferences, and diversity programs, often find these efforts go unrewarded, networking them to nowhere. By exposing how gendered expectations, invisible cultural codes, and even well-meaning corporate DEI programs can deepen inequality, this book offers a powerful new framework for understanding gender and organizations in the contemporary economy-and what it will take to chart a new path forward.

Alhuzail, Nuzha Allassad / Majumdar, Koustab (eds.), Indigenous Women's Resilience, Leadership and Social Change: Intersection of Knowledge, Tradition, and Justice. (Migration, Minorities and Modernity 8) 346 pp. 2026:1 (Springer, GW) <758-1010>
ISBN 978-3-032-07181-1 hard ¥35,570.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book provides an in-depth exploration of women's resilience, leadership and empowerment through Indigenous knowledge and their crucial roles in various socio-cultural contexts across the world. It challenges the conventional narrative, highlighting the strength and resilience of Indigenous women in their communities that are historically marginalized. By interconnecting knowledge, tradition and justice, the volume addresses the contribution of Indigenous women in fostering the social change which has been often unnoticed. It provides a fresh insight on key topics such as Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous resilience, women roles (in traditional and patriarchal societies), women empowerment, community-based women's organization, social capital and community support. It also discusses the challenges of Indigenous women in patriarchal and market-driven societies. Recognizing the scarcity of literature, particularly on resilience of Indigenous women and leadership in promoting social change, this book sets out to expand the existing framework of leadership and social change. Through this nuanced analysis, this book recognizes the invisible contributions of Indigenous women in advancing their communities and broader societies.

Blakney, Carol / Alves, Abel / Bonner, J. et al. (eds.), The Biohistory of Feminism: How Evolution Gives Us Women Who Shape Our Cultures. 300 pp. 2026:4 (de Gruyter, GW) <758-1012>
ISBN 978-3-11-914860-3 hard ¥25,396.- (税込) EUR 99.95

Champagne, John G., The Italian Vice, Italy and the Invention of Modern Male Homosexuality. (Genders and Sexualities in History) 322 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-1013>
ISBN 978-3-031-89145-8 hard ¥33,029.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book reorients our understanding of the history of modern male homosexuality by focusing on Europe's 'internal Other': Italy. Spanning from the tail-end of the Grand Tour to the mid-fascist years, it argues that Italy was a time/space in which competing epistemologies of homosexuality confronted one another - precisely what characterizes 'modern' male same-sex love and attraction. Turning our understanding of the history of male homosexuality on its head, it proposes that Italy was not primitive, pre-modern, or under-developed but modern in a way that Europe and the US were not. It also highlights the frequently overlooked role working-class men and boys played in the so-called invention of modern male homosexuality. The new scientific epistemologies of sexuality; a pan-European Hellenic revival; a tradition of fostering male same-sex intimacies that cut across age, class, and nationality; Italy's lack of anti-sodomy legislation and specific place in the capitalist world system, including the late entry of bourgeois women into its public sphere; changing understandings of sexuality and gender that resulted from industrialization -- all combined to produce a same-sex sex tourism industry that juxtaposed competing understandings of male same-sex love. These epistemologies were inflected in complex and contradictory ways by issues of gender, class, ethnicity, locality, age and race, such differences not simply 'intersecting' but being constituted alongside one another - particularly given Italy's ambiguous racial identity, somewhere 'between' the binaries of black and white. Adopting a queer Marxist approach that focuses on both capitalism's long duree and its combined and uneven development, rather than center a history of modern homosexuality on the white bourgeois men who visited Italy, this book seeks to glimpse the lives of their Italian lovers. To this end, it adopts an interdisciplinary approach that examines a wide archive including not only works of literature by privileged white bourgeois traveling gentlemen but also Italian sexology; same-sex sex scandals and their treatment in the Italian press; anthropological work on Italian homosexualities; travel diaries; and police records.

Dolinsek, Sonja / Martin, Annalisa, Beruf Sexarbeit: Quellen und Dokumente aus dem Nachlass von Marc-of-Frankfurt (2000-2015). (Transnational Queer Histories 3) 300 S. 2025:12 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <758-1015>
ISBN 978-3-11-160569-2 hard ¥20,314.- (税込) EUR 79.95

The book offers unique insights into the politics and practice of commercial sex in the early 2000s through the eyes of male sex worker, Stefan Huelsmann, aka Marc-of-Frankfurt. It is based on sources and documents from his archive in the years 2000 to 2013. Huelsmann was a sex worker and sex workers’ rights activist in Germany and Europe between 2000 and 2013, before dying in 2017 by suicide. He left his belongings and archives to the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft. This book explores this historically unique archive of a male sex worker and activist and makes it accessible to scholars, students and activists through introductory texts and a selection of original sources. The book centers the professional and political work of Huelsmann and the creation of his sex worker persona Marc-of-Frankfurt. Sources include meticulously drafted business plans, diary entries of paid sex encounters, drawings and mind maps about Marc’s views about himself as a sex worker. Chapters tackle subjects including sex workers’ engagement with the law, especially, the legal reform of prostitution laws with the Prostitutionsgesetz (ProstG) in 2001, as well as Marc’s ideas and ideals of professionalization post legal change. Further chapters consider Marc’s efforts at "communicating sex work" and his activism within German and European sex workers’ networks, his efforts at creating a network of male sex workers and his intense activity on the sex worker online forum sexworker.at.

近世イングランドにおける妊婦のセクシュアリティ
Donaghy, Paige, Pregnant Women's Sexuality in Early Modern England. (Genders and Sexualities in History) 156 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-1017>
ISBN 978-3-032-05651-1 hard ¥10,160.- (税込) EUR 39.99

Pregnant women in the past had sex, yet we know nearly nothing about their sexual desires, or what people thought about sex during pregnancy. While there is much research on the sexual maternal body, studies of pregnancy and sex are lacking. This Palgrave Pivot provides the first history of pregnant women's sexuality in England from 1550 to 1800, with discussion of Northern European perspectives on pregnancy sex. It explores a range of medical literature for descriptions of pregnancy and sexuality, including popular medical and midwifery books, as well as Latin scientific treatises. Alongside these texts, it considers popular culture materials including novels, ballads, pornography, marital guides, and diaries and correspondence. Drawing on methodologies from gender and queer history, the book attempts to locate pregnant women's articulations of desire in this period. Moreover, the book reveals the paradoxical nature of early modern attitudes to sex and pregnancy: women's gravid sexuality was portrayed as natural and desirable, but also excessive, potentially dangerous and disruptive to the foetus.

中世盛期のシュトラースブルクにおける女性聖職者と都市社会
Hirbodian, Sigrid, Geistliche Frauen und staedtische Gesellschaft in Strassburg: Stiftsdamen, Klosterfrauen und Beginen im Spaetmittelalter. (Studien zur Germania Sacra. NF 15) 700 S. 2025:11 (de Gruyter Akademie Forschung, GW) <758-1023>
ISBN 978-3-11-166753-9 hard ¥43,183.- (税込) EUR 169.95

近世イングランドにおけるナショナリズムと王族の女性
Hodgson, Elizabeth / Crover, Sarah (eds.), Nationalism and Royal Women in Early Modern England: The Queen's Gambit. (Queenship and Power) 276 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-1024>
ISBN 978-3-032-03385-7 hard ¥33,029.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book encounters the figure of the royal woman in the early modern period and explores how she enables and complicates the key moment at which England was emerging as an ideology, a nation, and an empire. Queens and queens consort, historical and fictional, played crucial roles in Renaissance England's shifting ideologies of nationalist identity. This collection considers how a series of royal women particularly embodied and complicated these many self-constructions of England and complex renditions of "the other." The period's influential female monarchs certainly made the queen's political body more visibly politicized, repatriated, and racialized; these same historical royals were represented as icons of nationalism in many forms and functions. In fictional incarnations, royal women created by the English imagination symbolized and structured those same nation-building narratives. This volume studies royal women's writings alongside such depictions of royal women, especially as such works collectively enable emergent English ideologies of nationalism and racialization.

Jarldorn, Michele / Moulding, Nicole / Deuter, Kate (eds.), Feminist Action Research in Mental Health: A Practical Guide. 134 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-1027>
ISBN 978-3-032-04405-1 hard ¥10,160.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book explores the development of a feminist-informed mental health peer support website co-designed with and for young women, filling a critical gap in theoretical and practical knowledge. Gendered violence and other forms of gender inequality play a significant role in the unequal burden of mental health problems faced by women. Whilst new and emerging online mental health resources hold promise as an adjunct to traditional face-to-face mental health support, they are predominantly designed for mixed gender audiences and do not connect specifically with diverse young women's mental health with their gendered lived experiences. This work seeks to address this. Specifically tailored to social workers and other allied health professionals in practice, academics, and higher degree research students, this book offers an example of integrated research and practice methods using design thinking and co-design methodologies framed within a feminist understanding of gendered experiences of mental health and wellbeing. Written with early career researchers in mind, the book provides a practical guide to undertaking interdisciplinary learning and action research projects.

McCrary, Jessica Edens / Gaillet, Lynee Lewis (eds.), Blurred Boundaries: Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor. 272 pp. 2026:4 (U. South Carolina Pr., US) <758-1030>
ISBN 978-1-64336-585-5 hard ¥25,044.- (税込) US$ 114.99
ISBN 978-1-64336-649-4 paper ¥6,531.- (税込) US$ 29.99

How the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gendered inequities in academic labor-and how to overcome them Although the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020 proved universally challenging, women, especially, found themselves caught between professional and familial responsibilities as work and homelife boundaries converged and collapsed. These gendered workplace struggles were not unique to the pandemic, but, rather, were exacerbated and exposed by the public health response. In Blurred Boundaries: Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor, scholars, teachers, and administrators pair eyewitness narratives with sustained interrogation of interminable labor inequities to demonstrate the ongoing dilemmas posed by gendered social and professional expectations. Grounded in rhetoric and composition scholarship and feminist methodologies, contributors highlight systemic labor issues and suggest solutions to these embedded, ongoing problems. They pose critical questions regarding institutions' responsibilities for engaging intentional decision-making practices both to disrupt recurrent work imbalances and to support sustainable, ethically managed academic labor practices.

Mitra, Durba, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism. 352 pp. 2026:3 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <758-1032>
ISBN 978-0-691-23360-4 hard ¥7,176.- (税込) US$ 32.95

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our presentBeginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women. Galvanized by International Women's Year in 1975 and the UN's Decade of Women, Third World women developed novel ideas of equality and self-determination, building a new internationalism in opposition to neocolonialism and postcolonial authoritarianism. In The Future That Was, feminist historian Durba Mitra offers a pathbreaking account of how these women wrote Third World feminism into being, catalyzing a momentous expansion of knowledge about women, gender, and sexuality that transformed emancipatory politics across the globe.Mitra shows how women from former colonies in South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and beyond envisioned a radically just world-and did so by insisting that research on the world's women lay at the heart of debates about global inequality, development, and human rights. Women gathered at international conferences, wrote reports on the dangers facing women, and took to the streets in protest, building a world of knowledge that contested the devastating effects of patriarchy and colonialism. Yet, despite hundreds of laws, institutions, and publications created through the efforts of these women, the future they imagined was never fully realized. The Future That Was transforms the story of decolonization and its aftermath through the history and ideas of women. By excavating these vital pasts, Mitra shows how we might envision a future of our own that is freer than the present.

古代ローマにおける出産の失われた歴史
Mulder, Tara, A Womb of One's Own: Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome. 384 pp. 2026:5 (U. California Pr., US) <758-1034>
ISBN 978-0-520-39874-0 hard ¥6,523.- (税込) US$ 29.95

A bold new history of women's health and midwifery, brought to life through ancient women's stories of pregnancy and birth. In the well-trod history of the Roman Empire, a pivotal moment has long gone unnoticed: It was in ancient Rome that medical men first set their sights on childbirth, the traditional domain of female midwives. Taking us to the dawn of Western obstetrics, A Womb of One's Own offers a feminist account of how, against a long tradition of midwifery, male doctors began claiming authority in reproductive matters, with an emphasis on theoretical rather than practical knowledge. Their intrusion paved the way for the later criminalization of midwives and the cloaking of childbirth in secrecy and shame. Yet communities of Roman women continued to help each other through the journey from preconception to postpartum, guided by their own experience and the expertise of midwives. Tara Mulder recovers stories of ancient women living and resisting as they sought autonomy over their bodies and their health. Recounting their experiences in vivid, intimate detail, she reveals how old our modern conflicts around birth truly are.

北欧・中欧における女性、トランスナショナルなネットワーク、愛国心　1763～1814年
Pohl, Nicole, Women, Transnational Networks and Patriotism in Northern and Central Europe, 1763-1814. (Studies in the Eighteenth Century) 342 pp. 2025:12 (Boydell, UK) <758-1035>
ISBN 978-1-78327-790-2 hard ¥28,006.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

A gateway to the complex world of eighteenth-century sociability of elite women and of their lasting impact on modern concepts of national identity and community. In the dynamic intellectual and social landscape of eighteenth-century Northern Europe, the interplay between patriotism, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism was pivotal in shaping the era's cultural and political discourse. This study delves into the intricate networks of elite women who navigated and influenced these concepts through their participation in salons and literary circles. By examining figures such as Anna Amalia of Weimar, Dorothea von Kurland, members of the Bluestockings, Friederike Brun and the grande Dame of eighteenth-century salon world, Mme de Stael, the narrative uncovers how these women fostered transnational dialogues and cultural exchanges that were crucial in redefining public spirit and national identity. Grounded in extensive archival research and touching on the lives of over twenty-five individuals, the work highlights the nuanced roles these women played as cultural mediators and agents of change across national borders, challenging the traditional male-dominated historiography. The exploration of their contributions offers fresh insights into the interconnectedness of European intellectual life and the critical role of gender in shaping historical discourses. This book not only broadens our understanding of the Enlightenment but also provides a rich, interdisciplinary perspective on the socio-political transformations of the era.

Rahman, Anisur / Tiwari, Niharika (eds.), Gender Equality and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Solutions in Developing Countries. (Sustainable Development Goals Series) 263 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <758-1036>
ISBN 978-981-9514-49-6 hard ¥33,029.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This interdisciplinary volume delves into the various indicators and targets of Sustainable Development Goal 5 in developing countries, especially India. It emphasizes the issues of discrimination and inequality, both in the real world and in the virtual world. The chapters discuss challenges, such as women's leadership, gendered caste identity, women-driven narratives on OTT, wages for households, and migration. Apart from the real challenges discussed, the very first section of this book provides an insight into the theoretical and conceptual dimensions of gender. The book highlights ecofeminism and the role the natural environment plays in achieving SDG-5. It discusses the conceptual aspects of gender equality and sustainable development at length. Well-known gender specialists and scholars address the socioeconomic challenges women face in prevailing patriarchal society in the chapters. The book is of great interest to students and scholars across various disciplines, including women's and gender studies, sociology, sexuality studies, migration studies and public policy.

Robinson Rhodes, Martha, Bisexuality and Beyond: A History of Multiple-Gender-Attraction in Modern Britain. 208 pp. 2026:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <758-1040>
ISBN 978-0-19-898312-5 hard ¥25,942.- (税込) GB￡ 88.00

Historians of sexuality agree that the binary divide between gay and straight is a relatively recent social invention, only becoming dominant around the mid-twentieth-century. But focus on this binary has oversimplified and skewed the history of sexuality. Bisexuality and Beyond is the first historical study of bisexuality in Britain. It utilizes oral histories alongside extensive archival research to explore the creation of the gay/straight binary from the perspective of those who fell beyond its limits, challenging historical narratives about liberationist politics and identity formation. By considering the broader circumstances of this period, the book investigates the problems of defining bisexuality and its politics coherently, and of navigating its relationship to gay and lesbian politics. To do so, the author coins the concept of 'multiple-gender-attraction', an umbrella term that encompasses and extends beyond the category of bisexuality: people who identified as bisexual experienced multiple-gender-attraction, but many who did not identify as bisexual were attracted to multiple genders as well. It is not an identity label, but a description of potential attraction, drawing on queer historical approaches to explore the blurred distinctions between emotions, behaviour, and identity. Through detailed histories of the gay liberation movement, lesbian feminism, and Britain's first bisexual organisations, Bisexuality and Beyond argues that the binary of gay and straight was created and reinforced by gay and lesbian politics as well as dominant straight society. By placing bisexuality and multiple-gender-attraction squarely in the frame, this book changes how we understand the emergence of identity politics in modern Britain, challenging established notions about the 'queer' inclusivity of counter-cultural activism and intervening in histories of identity, selfhood, community, and radicalism.

Robinson, Brandon Andrew, Trans Pleasure: On Gender Liberation and Sexual Freedom. 184 pp. 2026:2 (U. California Pr., US) <758-1041>
ISBN 978-0-520-41032-9 hard ¥20,691.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41033-6 paper ¥6,087.- (税込) US$ 27.95

A bold and provocative book centering the voices of trans women and femmes in the pursuit of pleasure and gender liberation. What are the possibilities of pleasure when we stop labeling our desires? In Trans Pleasure, Brandon Andrew Robinson answers this seductive question by exploring the sex lives of trans women and femmes. Centering the voices of trans women and femmes through in-depth interviews, Trans Pleasure takes us to the bedroom, to restaurants, to dating apps, and to other spaces that comprise the everyday dating experiences of trans people. Through this erotic journey, Robinson reveals how dominant understandings of sexual identities-which center desires around gender and genitals-harm trans people. They also limit how everyone can love and feel pleasure. In shifting the focus to comfort and to trans for trans relations, this frank and ambitious book expands our thinking about love, gender, sexuality, relationships, and desire. With this bold exploration of trans pleasure, Robinson makes the provocative claim that discarding sexual identities is the path to gender liberation and true erotic freedom.

Sharp, Ingrid / Zettelbauer, Heidrun (eds.), Gendering Vulnerability and Care During the 'Greater War' in Europe, 1912-1923: Conversations Across Borders. (Genders and Sexualities in History) 352 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <758-1042>
ISBN 978-3-032-05999-4 hard ¥38,111.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book examines the gendered dimensions of vulnerability, care, and humanitarianism before, during and after the First World War. It explores how war disrupts societal structures, transforms care relationships, and reinforces or challenges gendered hierarchies. It analyses how wartime welfare and care work-carried out by individuals, charities, and state institutions-reflected power structures, formed identities and influenced post-war political activism. This book uses interdisciplinary approaches and creates conversations across national and disciplinary borders, covering Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Topics include auto/biographical studies of care-givers, showing how their wartime experiences fed into their post-war identities and how they shaped understandings and structures of care work. By foregrounding care and welfare as central to wartime experiences, it provides new insights into the long-term social and political impacts of war, offering historical perspectives relevant to contemporary global conflicts and crises. This book therefore identifies emerging questions and directions within First World War Gender Studies, as well as reflecting on continuities and changes within contemporary theories of how gender is bound up with militarism, warfare, and conflict resolution.

Wilkens, Jan, Queer Jewish Groups in Europe (1972-1990s): Archiving Their Histories and Network. (Europaeisch-juedische Studien - Beitraege 73) 400 S. 2025:4 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <758-1048>
ISBN 978-3-11-147539-4 hard ¥17,773.- (税込) EUR 69.95

In the 1970s, queer Jews became excited by the developments of the Gay Liberation Movement in both the US and Europe since they themselves could not be openly queer in their Jewish communities. Yet, they quickly realized that the movement was not as welcoming as anticipated. Thus, in London in February 1972, the world’s first queer Jewish group became publicly visible with its symposium ?The Jewish Homosexual in Society.“ The Jewish Gay Group began tackling the exlusion of non-heteronormative Jews in British Jewish and queer communities. Soon after, two similar queer Jewish groups formed: Beit Haverim (?House of Friends“) in Paris and Sjalhomo (a neologism of ?shalom“ and ?homosexual“) in Amsterdam. Besides their goal of emancipation, these groups brought their members together based on their shared experiences as both Jewish and queer, opening up spaces for social encounters. Moreover, the groups established a support network on the European continent that enabled an international collaboration amongst them for more than a decade. This study archives these groups’ histories and that of its network. By doing so, it broadens prevelant narratives of Europe’s post-World War II Jewry, thereby queering the dicipline of Jewish History.

Winzen, Peter Heinrich Mathias, Homosexualitaet und Politik im ausgehenden Kaiserreich: Eine unheilige Allianz? V, 252 S. 2025:3 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <758-1050>
ISBN 978-3-11-158695-3 hard ¥25,396.- (税込) EUR 99.95

The focus of this study on same-sex love in the Kaiser Wilhelm II close circle predominantly narrows in on the monarch’s confidantes, who have always stood in the shadows of well-known actors in historical presentations. However, upon closer inspection, they prove to have been important instigators, intervening in imperial politics directly with the approval of the Kaiser or reinforcing him in his sometimes diffuse views.

ウィトゲンシュタインのフェミニズム・ハンドブック
Laugier, Sandra / Cabrera, Isabel G. Gamero et al. (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Wittgensteinian Feminism. (Bloomsbury Handbooks) 360 pp. 2025:12 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <757-96>
ISBN 978-1-350-50673-2 hard ¥41,272.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

This book provides the first in-depth examination of philosophy and feminism in the works of Wittgenstein, exploring the diverse approaches within this emerging field The four thematic parts are accompanied by an introduction from the editors. They cover the history of ordinary language philosophy, moral and political thought, feminist epistemology and conceptual approaches to gender. Chapters are written by feminist philosophers who question the way in which ordinary language philosophy can enrich moral thought. Authoritative and comprehensive, it increases the visibility of a significant field outside of mainstream philosophy and confirms the continuing impact of Wittgenstein.

Campbell, Meghan, Hanging in the Balance: The Function of Justification in Achieving Women's Equality. 240 pp. 2025:10 (Hart, UK) <757-759>
ISBN 978-1-5099-6787-2 hard ¥26,532.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This book gives the first in-depth assessment of how justification functions when women are claiming their right to equality.How can courts assess whether a proposed limit to women's equality is constitutionally justified? This question is rarely explicitly asked, with the assumption that well-established limitation frameworks, such as proportionality, are able to assess whether limits to women's rights are justified. However, delving into the theory and practice of justification reveals fracture points between the dominant approach to justification and women's rights to equality. One of its distinctive characteristics is the question of whether any analytical entwining or unwinding of equality and justification enhances the protection of women's rights to equality in constitutional democracies. It proposes a novel asymmetric relationship between equality and justification that requires innovative methodological approaches that enrich the task of adjudicating limits to women's equality. This is an intriguing, articulate and compelling examination of a question with real and applied significance to all those working on human rights and equality.

ジェンダーと暴力ハンドブック　第2版
Biddolph, Caitlin / Kim, Jihyun / Perry, Sian et al. (eds.), Handbook on Gender and Violence. 2nd ed. (International Handbooks on Gender) 448 pp. 2026:2 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-848>
ISBN 978-1-0353-4591-5 hard ¥63,382.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00

In this thoroughly revised second edition, expert researchers from a range of disciplines interrogate the relationship between gender and violence. Divided into three thematic sections covering concepts, representation and contexts, this Handbook connects micro-level interpersonal violence to macro-level structural forms.Including both new and updated chapters, contributors analyze varied demonstrations of gender violence as well as the inequalities exacerbated by economic influences, climate change and settler colonialism. They assess intersectionality, race and sexualities across diverse economic and juridical backgrounds, elaborating on the tools used in discussions of gendered oppression. The Handbook incorporates a representational focus on the display of gender violence in popular culture, films, news media and photography. Contributors provide transnational perspectives, exploring the connection of gender and violence to various contemporary issues including the military, post-conflict settings, social movements and criminal justice.Multidisciplinary in scope, this Handbook is a vital resource for scholars and students of gender studies, development studies, international relations, sociology and human rights. It is also of interest to researchers new to the area for its in-depth overview of the topic.

Bourke, Joanna, Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker. 344 pp. 2026:3 (Reaktion Books, UK) <757-849>
ISBN 978-1-83639-174-6 hard ¥5,896.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00

Why do certain women become icons of evil? This book offers the first comparative, non-sensationalist account of five of the most reviled women in the modern Anglophone world: Myra Hindley, Rosemary West, Aileen Wuornos, Karla Homolka and Karla Faye Tucker. It examines their lives, crimes and cultural reception in the UK, USA and Canada, asking how violence committed by women is understood, judged and remembered. Going beyond moral outrage or tabloid headlines, the book explores how concepts of 'evil' are shaped by history, belief systems and social context. Through historical and ethical reflections, it offers a deeper, more critical engagement with female violence, and considers how society should respond to those who commit acts of unimaginable harm.

Coffee, Alan M. S. J., Harriet Jacobs. (Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy) 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <757-61>
ISBN 978-1-009-61939-4 hard ¥16,214.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-31842-6 paper ¥5,306.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

Kemper, Leonie, Blosse "Objekte staatlicher Massnahmen"?: Organisierte Frauen in der Auseinandersetzung mit Recht als Herrschaftsinstrument vom Kaiserreich bis in die Weimarer Republik. (Schriften zur Gleichstellung 57) 671 S. 2025:8 (Nomos, GW) <757-704>
ISBN 978-3-7560-3337-9 hard ¥56,918.- (税込) EUR 224.00

Wie praegen Geschlechtervorstellungen unser Recht ? und wie wirkt das Recht auf die Entstehung dieser Vorstellungen zurueck? Die vorliegende Untersuchung zeigt, dass solche Fragen nicht erst die Wissenschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts beschaeftigen. Am Beispiel der Frauenbewegung des Kaiserreichs und der Weimarer Nationalversammlung werden zwei zentrale Handlungsraeume untersucht, in denen historisch handelnde Frauen intensiv die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Recht und Geschlecht verhandelten. Dabei werden nicht nur rechtliche Diskriminierungsstrukturen analysiert, sondern auch die Frauenbewegung als moeglicher Lern- und Erfahrungsraum fuer die parlamentarische Arbeit der ersten weiblichen Abgeordneten der Nationalversammlung untersucht.