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

Peake, Linda / Razavi, Nasya S. / Smyth, Araby (eds.), Doing Feminist Urban Research: Insights from the GenUrb Project. 400 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-800>
ISBN 978-1-03-266867-3 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-266868-0 paper ¥9,814.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99

Doing Feminist Urban Research introduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies, software-enhanced qualitative data analysis, and knowledge mobilisation.This book delves into both the institutional and lived reality of the practice of feminist urban research via the insights of a transnational research project (GenUrb). Through reflection exercises based on real life examples, it covers research techniques and feminist methodologies, using NVivo, and knowledge mobilization, including utilizing social media, in the time of the Sustainable Development Goals. It guides readers through navigating the politics of decolonizing research, working across differences, and embracing feminist ethics and activism. The book also explores practices such as translation, professional standards of data management and EDI, collaboration with partners, engaging in teamwork, critically examining the 'field' through comparison and feminist geo-ethnographies, and handling crises, including pandemics. Accompanying web resources will assist scholars and students, with additional audio files and documents.This book's practical guidance will help those starting to contemplate and engage in qualitative feminist urban research as well as those teaching the practice and politics of research. It will appeal to and practitioners in urban studies, geography, gender and women's studies, sociology, anthropology, global studies, and development studies.

McDonnell, Andrea, Celebrity Rhetoric and Sexual Misconduct Cases: Discursive Self-Cleaving. (Routledge Focus on Communication Studies) 144 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <723-827>
ISBN 978-1-03-246112-0 hard ¥13,741.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99

This book considers the rhetorical strategies used by celebrities and their surrogates and attorneys when faced with claims of sexual misconduct. During the past five years, a series of public figures have claimed that their celebrity persona is distinct from their "real" self as a way of eluding allegations of sexual misconduct in the courthouse and in the court of public opinion. This book examines three case studies in which such claims were employed, namely Terry Bollea/Hulk Hogan, President Donald Trump/Reality Show Host Donald Trump, and R. Kelly/Robert Kelly, to assess the mediated and legal communicative strategies used and their potential implications. Using a technique which the author calls "discursive self-cleaving," these stars strategically craft statements on social media, in the press, and in the courtroom to create a discourse that works to shift blame away from their behavior. The book also traces the relationship between these discursive approaches and the politics of sexual violence and domestic abuse during the early months of the #MeToo movement and beyond. Providing a richly detailed analysis of how this discourse functions and why jurors and members of the public find it convincing, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of Communication Studies, Rhetoric, Media, Law, and Popular Culture Studies.

Weder, Christine, Intimate Relations: Aesthetics and Theories of Sexuality around 1968. Tr. by R. Vilain. (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) 352 pp. 2024:6 (Camden House, UK) <723-85>
ISBN 978-1-64014-087-5 hard ¥26,647.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

A fresh historical perspective on the transformative relationship between sexuality and the arts around 1968 In the late 1960s and early '70s, sexuality and the arts entered into a remarkably intimate and mutually beneficial relationship: on one hand, scientific theories of sexuality and their pop-psychological counterparts incorporated lengthy reflections on art movements and literary texts, since artistic media were understood as crucial to the project of inventing radically new modes of human living and loving. On the other hand, the aesthetic ambitions that informed new conceptions of sexuality had their mirror image in the varying forms of sexual obsession that characterized contemporary aesthetic theories. Approaches as diverse as those of Theodor W. Adorno, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Leslie A. Fiedler, Peter Gorsen, and Herbert and Ludwig Marcuse all contributed to a dramatic eroticization of the arts. Christine Weder's interdisciplinary study explores this largely neglected relationship, providing a dual insight into an era of profound transformation: she demonstrates how and why the engagement with art and literature was essential to the programmatic theories of the new Eros. At the same time, she offers a fresh historical perspective on aesthetics around 1968. Whereas aesthetic developments in the late sixties have conventionally been conceived in terms of politicization, Weder demonstrates that the sexualization of the arts was no less profound, and in doing so contributes to a fundamental reframing of this tumultuous period.

Belmonte Avila, Juan Francisco et al. (eds.), Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games. 312 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <723-860>
ISBN 978-1-03-250846-7 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games investigates the potential of queer conceptions of time to unbind forms of understanding identities. In doing so, it recognizes the power of time to determine us, but chooses to queer time and turn it into an ally of unbound forms of understanding identities.Through the analysis of different media-literature, cinema, and video games-the chapters revolve around three key ideas: that there are inherently queer styles of using and dealing with time and temporality in culture; that the critical rediscovery of canonical texts as well as the analysis of largely ignored queer texts and authors allow for a better understanding of queer identities; and, finally, that normative conceptions of time can-and should-be challenged through critical tools which reconceptualize notions of the self around time.This volume will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers working close to areas such as Queer and Gender Studies, Media and Cinema Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Game Studies, and Art History.

Cavallero, Jonathan J., Television Directors, Race, and Gender: Written Out of the Story. (Routledge Advances in Television Studies) 296 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-865>
ISBN 978-1-03-262995-7 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book challenges the predominant framing of US television as a writer's or producer's medium by suggesting that television directors are a vital component of TV artistry.Looking beyond a perspective that favors the narrative and economic aspects of television but undervalues the medium's formal elements, the book explores how directors use the visual and aural to contribute layers of meaning that add to the thematic development of television texts. Starting from the belief that television aesthetics partially reveal the ways in which directors (and their collaborators) contribute to the overall thematic development of a program, the author offers five case studies that map out the ways that directors have contributed to television drama throughout the medium's approximately 80-year history. By devoting special attention to the presence and voices of directors from marginalized backgrounds, the book creates opportunities to discuss television from perspectives that emphasize issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This original and insightful work will appeal to students and scholars of television studies, television production and media production, critical media studies, media authorship, gender studies, and race and media.

Green, Aaryn L. / McDonald, Maretta Darnell et al., The Sociology of Cardi B: A Trap Feminist Approach. 200 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-873>
ISBN 978-1-03-202744-9 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-202742-5 paper ¥10,094.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This powerfully written and co-authored book creatively engages with the topics of Black and Latinx femininity, motherhood, sexuality, racial and ethnic identity, and political engagement through the life and artistic work of hip hop artist Cardi B. The authors highlight examples from Cardi's lived experiences and artistry using a trap feminist framework as a starting point for sociological conversations about Black women and the trap.The authors weave foundational histories of Black Sociology, Black feminism, and institutional inequalities along the lines of race, class, and gender. Drawing from moments in Cardi B's public life-her rap lyrics, her behavior at New York Fashion Week, questions about her racial and ethnic identity, the unveiling of her pregnancy, her engagement with politicians, and her responses to social media comments and critics-this book argues for the merits of addressing Black feminist theory from the bottom up-that is, to take seriously the knowledge production of Black women by attending to and creating space for hood chicks, ghetto girls, and ratchet women.By centering the lived experiences and social positions of the Black women Cardi represents, the authors expand Black feminist discourse and entrust Black women to define themselves for themselves. This book is an important contribution to scholarship for students, scholars, and readers interested in sociology, hip hop, pop culture, and women's studies.

McMillan, Laurie, Slut Narratives in Popular Culture. (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies) 240 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-884>
ISBN 978-1-03-239469-5 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Slut Narratives in Popular Culture explores representations of slut shaming and the term "slut" in U.S. popular media, 2000-2020. It argues that cultural narratives of intersectional gender identities are gradually but unevenly shifting to become more progressive and sex positive.Moving beyond prior research on slut shaming, which exposes problematic conflations between women's morality and a sexual purity associated with White economic privilege, this book examines how narratives that perpetuate slut shaming are both contested and reinscribed through stories we circulate. It emphasizes effects of twenty-first century developments in digital communication and entertainment. The rapid evolution of genres combined with increased access to the consumption and production of texts stimulates more diverse storytelling. The book's analyses demonstrate twenty-first changes in how slut shaming is depicted and understood, while encouraging consumers and producers of pop culture to attend to cultural narratives as they reify or challenge the subordination of vulnerable populations.Aimed primarily at an academic audience, this book will also engage general readers interested in intersectional feminism, pop culture, new media, digital technologies, and socio-linguistic change. Readers will become more adept at deconstructing assumptions embedded in popular media, especially narratives informing slut shaming.

Bakuri, Amisah Zenabu, Religious Sensibilities in Pursuit of Sexual Well-Being: African Diasporic Communities in the Netherlands. (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 55) 230 pp. 2024:5 (Berghahn, US) <723-89>
ISBN 978-1-80539-497-6 hard ¥29,848.- (税込) US$ 135.00

The self-identifying Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch communities residing in the Randstad area of the Netherlands are deeply impacted by religious beliefs and cultural factors in their approach towards sexual health practices, well-being and pleasure. This book shows how religious sensibilities shape the physical activities, beauty practices, and gendered roles that are adopted into the daily lives of these communities in pursuit of their sexual and general well-being. Through an ethnographic account, it explores and challenges the assumptions held around the complex relationship between religion and sexuality.

Phiri, Aretha (ed.), Reframing the Black Atlantic: African, Diasporic, Queer and Feminist Perspectives. 160 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-893>
ISBN 978-1-03-275244-0 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy's seminal text, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, this book offers fresh interpretations of established black Atlantic scholarship from the perspective of those typically elided from its ideological purview and existential narrative. The application of queer and/or feminist lenses in each essay attempts to mediate these elisions and to advance potentially transformative, democratising readings of the black Atlantic from both complex and complicating African and diasporic viewpoints. With the aim of realigning black Atlantic scholarship in this way, the edited volume proposes an interventionist approach that is concerned with problematizing ethnic/ cultural universalisms and challenging geographic and gendered hierarchizations. Underlining the importance of aesthetic and creative cultural archives, Reframing the Black Atlantic's focus on transnational African diasporic literature and other intersecting popular cultural forms probes the (imaginative) limits and possibilities of the black Atlantic, conventionally conceived. To this end, this book intends not just to complicate and enhance established views of black Africa; inviting the reader to locate and perceive black life lived otherwise, it points towards more inclusive and expansive global understandings and visions of blackness. This volume will be of particular use to researchers and students in the fields of race/gender, diaspora/transnational, literary and cultural studies. The chapters of this book were originally published in Cultural Studies.

Lynn, Jennifer, Contested Femininities: Representations of Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920-1960. 326 pp. 2024:3 (Berghahn, US) <723-921>
ISBN 978-1-80539-416-7 hard ¥29,848.- (税込) US$ 135.00

In this comprehensive, long-view study on the concept of the Neue or Moderne Frau (New or Modern Woman) that spans the Weimar Republic, Third Reich, post-war period, and a divided Germany, Contested Femininities explores how different political and social groups constructed images of women to present competing visions of the future. It takes the highly contested representations of women presented in the illustrated press and examines how they emerged as crucial markers of modernity. In doing so it reveals the surprising continuity of these images across political periods and reflects on how debates over paid work, the gender division of labor in the household, the politics of the body, and consumption, played a central role in how different German regimes defined the Modern Woman.

Blockett, Kimberly (ed.), Mapping Black Women's Geographies. 180 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-971>
ISBN 978-1-03-280607-5 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Spanning three centuries, this book demonstrates a variety of archival practices to tell more expansive stories about Black women. It examines the life writing, records, and ephemera of Black women such as political reformer Sydna E. R. Francis, educators Edmonia Highgate and Lucy F. Simms, travel writer Nancy Prince, poet June Jordan, novelist Jesmyn Ward, and self-liberator Matilda Hawkins Tyler, enslaved by her own Jesuit church at St. Louis University.The contributors use oral histories, data visualization, and biographical documents and narratives to map these and countless anonymized stories across geographic locations. Tracking the voluntary and forced movement of Black women alongside the places and spaces they inhabit gives us richer, more contextualized histories. The authors probe and answer how these women moved through and beyond systemic barriers and physical dangers while placing themselves at the center of change. The stories crystalize the joys, horrors, quotidian experiences, and endurance of marginalized lives. Each chapter illustrates ways to build archival and theoretical spaces that interrogate the many ways that Black women have navigated formidable and dangerous lands.This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to students and researchers of comparative literature, gender studies, and Black studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

Nicol, Donna J., Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action. (Gender and Race in American History) 244 pp. 2024:5 (U. Rochester Pr., US) <723-996>
ISBN 978-1-64825-023-1 hard ¥9,817.- (税込) GB￡ 35.00

Offers a rare view inside the university boardroom, uncovering the vital role Black women educational leaders have played in ensuring access and equity for all. Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action examines the leadership strategies that Black women educators have employed as influential power brokers in predominantly white colleges and universities in the United States. Author Donna J. Nicol tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Claudia H. Hampton, the California State University (CSU) system's first Black woman trustee, who later became the board's first woman chair, and her twenty-year fight (1974-94) to increase access within the CSU for historically marginalized and underrepresented groups. Amid a growing white backlash against changes brought on by the 1960s Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, Nicol argues that Hampton enacted "sly civility" to persuade fellow trustees, CSU system officials, and state lawmakers to enforce federal and state affirmative action mandates. Black Woman on Board explores how Hampton methodically "played the game of boardsmanship," using the soft power she cultivated amongst her peers to remove barriers that might have impeded the implementation and expansion of affirmative action policies and programs. In illuminating the ways that Hampton transformed the CSU as the "affirmative action trustee," this remarkable book makes an important contribution to the history of higher education and to the historiography of Black women's educational leadership in the post-Civil Rights era.

Fielder, Anna, Going Into Labour: Childbirth In Capitalism. (Mapping Social Reproduction Theory) 240 pp. 2024:11 (Pluto Pr., UK) <723-518>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4949-7 paper ¥5,326.- (税込) GB￡ 18.99

Childbirth is often assumed to be a natural process, and yet the choices we make, risks we face, and care available to us around birth are entirely bound up in the dynamics of the system we live in: capitalism. In fact, capitalist relations shape childbirth in ways that are largely unacknowledged, but with intensely inequitable and often traumatic effects. Going into Labour fills a void in the literature around both childbirth and reproductive rights, presenting a Marxist analysis of the labour of childbirth. Through each chapter, former midwife Anna Fielder interrogates and unpacks some of the key features of contemporary childbirth, and ultimately situates birth as a key site of anti-capitalist struggle. Fielder delves into the 'natural' birth movement; the increasing engagement of women of colour, working-class women, transgender and non-binary gendered people in the politics of birth; the pay and working conditions of caregivers such as midwives and nurses; and the sharp contrast between proliferating rates of caesarean section in the West, and a lack of access to the same (at times lifesaving) form of surgery elsewhere.

Leutloff-Grandits, Carolin, Translocal Care across Kosovo's Borders: Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines. (Anthropology of Europe 8) 276 pp. 2023:9 (Berghahn, US) <723-558>
ISBN 978-1-80539-059-6 hard ¥29,848.- (税込) US$ 135.00

In today's globalized world, where the foundations of home and social security are destabilized due to wars and neoliberal transformations, the villagers of Kosovo are linked with a common locality despite living across borders. By tracing long-distant family relations with a special focus on cross-border marriages, this study looks at the reconfiguration of care relations, gender and generational roles among kin-members of Kosovo, who now live in different European states.

ジェンダーと国境地域必携
Feghali, Zalfa / Toner, Deborah (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands. (Routledge Companions to Gender) 416 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-570>
ISBN 978-0-367-43959-0 hard ¥57,502.- (税込) GB￡ 205.00

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands maps the relationship between gender and borderlands at a global scale, and sets the agenda for developing a global composite field of gender and borderlands studies.This interdisciplinary collection seeks to understand the complex nexus at which gender and the borderlands intersect, modelling radical relationality at epistemological, ontological, and activist levels. Going beyond border studies' frequent site at the US-Mexico Border, this book examines the power relations of borderlands as they play out in, influence, and reflect gender dynamics. Featuring contributors draw on case studies from around the world, and their chapters span diverse fields from anthropology, literature and history, to political science, religious studies, sociology, and the arts.The Routledge Companion to Gender and Borderlands is an indispensable resource for scholars and students engaged in border studies, gender studies, and the wide range of interlocking disciplines that inform and enrich these fields.

A.ゲルマー、U.ヴェール編　日本のフェミニズム・ハンドブック
Germer, Andrea / Woehr, Ulrike (eds.), Handbook of Japanese Feminisims. (Japan Documents Handbooks Series) 2024:9 (Japan Documents, JA) <723-629>
ISBN 978-4-909286-12-3 hard ¥28,875.- (税込)

〔英語版〕朴裕河著『帝国の慰安婦－植民地支配と記憶の闘い』
Yuha, Park, Comfort Women of the Japanese Empire: Colonial Rule and the Battle over Memory. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) 304 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-631>
ISBN 978-1-03-256644-3 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This is an important and controversial book, hitherto available only in Korean, Japanese and Chinese, a book which has been subject to court cases attempting to have some parts of the book deleted. The author reconsiders the issue of the "comfort women", that is the Korean women who were compelled to provide sexual comfort to Japanese troops during the Asia-Pacific War. She explores the human complexity of the experiences of these women, who despite terrible exploitation, she feels, cannot and should not only be considered only as passive victims. She sets the issue in context, revealing how Korean society played a role, with patriarchy and middlemen being significant factors in the procurement of comfort women, and how alongside the comfort women there were volunteer labour corps of Korean young women supporting the Japanese war effort. She highlights Korea's colonial status, different from the territories Japan invaded and conquered, discusses how relations between colonisers and colonised in an empire are not straightforward, and argues that people should work to understand more fully the mindset of those at the time, and refrain from forcing values from the present to resolve indignities of the past. Aiming at finding a way to pursue reconciliation while looking more closely at the history, the book provides substantial consideration of key issues to do with empire, memorialization, and censorship, and is an uncomfortable read for those seeking simplistic interpretations and simplistic solutions.

Schmidt, Mario, Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: The Pressure of being a Man in an African City. (Making & Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa) 184 pp. 2024:2 (J. Currey, UK) <723-723>
ISBN 978-1-84701-352-1 paper ¥7,009.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99

Examines how young male migrants in urban Nairobi navigate the tension between expectations of success and repetitive failure. Pipeline is a low-income, high-rise-tenement settlement in Nairobi's marginalized East and one of sub-Saharan Africa's most densely populated estates. An aspirational place where fleeting forms of capitalist consumption reassure migrants of an upward trajectory, it is also a place where their ambitions of long-term economic success and stable romantic relationships are routinely thwarted. This book explores how men who migrate to Nairobi from Western Kenya navigate this tension that is generated by the contrast between their view of Pipeline as a launching pad for their personal and professional careers and the fact that they face constant economic, romantic, and personal backlashes. Drawing on over two years of fieldwork, the book reveals that many male migrants design their future on trajectories of personal and economic growth but have to adjust or indefinitely postpone their plans once they arrive in Kenya's capital. Under the pressure to succeed from romantic partners, spouses, rural kin, and children, they create and participate in homosocial spaces where a sense of brotherhood emerges and their experience of pressure is attenuated. Alongside a deep ethnographic exploration of how male migrants model their financial, physical, and mental well-being in three different masculine spaces - an ethnically homogenous investment group, an interethnic gym, and the semi-digital sphere of self-help books, workshops, and motivational trainings on man- and fatherhood - this book brings a new perspective to our understanding of urban African life and the nature of masculinity. This title is available under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND, with funding from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Open Access Fund and the German Research Foundation.

Hunter, Mary (ed.), Women's Health and Corporate Marketing: Our Bodies, Their Business. 184 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-245>
ISBN 978-1-03-275160-3 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-275037-8 paper ¥10,094.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This compelling collection of essays examines how historically significant marketing schemes have profoundly impacted women's health and healthcare across the world.Written by scholars and activists from a range of disciplines, including law, sociology and the health sciences, the book spotlights a range of products that have had a damaging impact on women's health, unpicking the values and assumption engrained within the marketing campaigns which promoted them. Examples include the advertisement of household and personal care products which expose users to toxic chemicals, empowerment messaging to persuade women to use tobacco products in low and middle income countries, and the deceptive marketing of benzodiazepines and opioids that disproportionately impacts women and their families.A powerful critique of the unethical and paternalistic approach of some corporations, this book will find readers among students taking courses in Public Health, Allied Health, Gender Studies, Sociology and beyond, as well as interested professionals and lay readers.

Jones, Kerry / Robb, Martin (eds.), Men and Loss: New Perspectives on Bereavement, Grief and Masculinity. (Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society) 240 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <723-246>
ISBN 978-1-03-236823-8 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This important book draws together new research and theories about bereavement, on the one hand, and men and masculinities on the other, to increase our understanding of men's experience of loss and contribute towards improving support services to men following bereavement.Bereavement and loss are unavoidable events in life and can be challenging experiences for anyone, regardless of gender. However, in contemporary western cultures, men's experience of bereavement continues to be framed by socially constructed ideas surrounding masculinity, which dictate that men must be stoic following a loss, with grief manifesting in either anger or despair. Men who do not grieve in accepted 'masculine' ways can feel judged, alienated or disenfranchised. This interdisciplinary and interprofessional collection presents theoretical analysis, reports of research findings, reviews of support and interventions, and a wealth of personal accounts. It includes chapters discussing partner loss, childhood bereavement, perinatal loss and bereavement through suicide, as well as bereavement at all stages of the life course.Men and Loss is an essential read for advanced students and researchers with an interest in men's health and bereavement studies from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including nursing, medicine, counselling, sociology, social work and psychology.

Singh, Tilottama / Goel, Richa / Kaur, M. et al. (eds.), Women Entrepreneurs: Building Sustainable Business Models in Digital Spaces, Case Studies, and Experiences. 152 pp. 2024:5 (CRC Pr., US) <723-331>
ISBN 978-1-03-272543-7 hard ¥13,741.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99

This book describes the path of women entrepreneurs who manage sustainable enterprises and delves into the issues that women entrepreneurs encounter along with the steps they are taking to overcome these obstacles. It also addresses the scaffolding provided by liminal digital spaces to the sustainable business models run by women entrepreneurs, as well as how organizations can profit from utilizing digital spaces to improve their operations.Women Entrepreneurs: Building Sustainable Business Models in Digital Spaces, Case Studies, and Experiences presents aspiring entrepreneurs, sustainable businesses, government stakeholders, and financial and funding prospects in Society 5.0. The book provides insights into prominent women entrepreneurs in the global economy and creates a bridge between innovation and liminal digital spaces. It offers real-life cases diving into the journey of entrepreneurs being job creators highlighting the urgent need for sustainable and innovative company practices and presents a comprehensive strategy for a circular economy.Whether you are an entrepreneur, a policymaker, a researcher, or simply someone interested in the subject, this book offers an opportunity to understand and promote the growth and empowerment of women entrepreneurs in the digital age.

Daskalopoulou, Athanasia / Pirani, Daniela et al. (eds.), Sexuality in Marketing and Consumption: Queer Theory, Feminist Research, and Intersectionality. (Routledge Studies in Critical Marketing) 264 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-384>
ISBN 978-1-03-259399-9 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This volume provides an in-depth examination of the role of sexuality in consumers' life course and in the marketing of products and services.Leading scholars in the field define the most up-to-date picture of theories of sexuality in marketing and consumer research, mapping the topic through diverse theoretical lenses, addressing queer and feminist research, and putting sexuality and consumption in context. The book brings together leading international marketing scholars to build on the growing interest in theories of sexuality, queer theory, and intersectionality, which are gaining more interest among institutions and researchers interested in equality and diversity. While this book builds on existing expertise in consumer culture scholarship, it is the first time a marketing book focuses on sexuality, adding value to the existing repertoire in gender and feminist literature. Chapters are organised into three key sections: part 1 maps the marketing and consumer research field, discussing how sexuality can be studied through different lenses; part 2 focuses on queer and feminist theorising, drawing on LGBTQIA+ theory, queer theory and theories of intersectionality to analyse how overlapping social categories interact to influence consumer behaviour, identity and experiences in the marketplace; and part 3 explores the personal and social aspects of sexuality, offering a broad overview of issues of gender and sexuality, digitalisation, and the sexual body.This text will be of direct interest to scholars and researchers within the fields of marketing, consumer research, sociology and media studies. The aim of this book is to help scholars and students to develop a broader understanding about the interplay between sexuality, society and the market.

石川匡著　ジェンダーの地理学－帝国日本と植民地期台湾における家族と法
Ishikawa, Tadashi, Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan. 295 pp. 2024:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <723-435>
ISBN 978-1-00-953417-8 hard ¥23,842.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Tadashi Ishikawa traces perceptions and practices of gender in the Japanese empire on the occasion of Japan's colonisation of Taiwan from 1895 . In the 1910s, metropolitan and colonial authorities attempted social reform in ways which particularly impacted on family traditions and, therefore, gender relations, paving the way for the politics of comparison within and beyond the empire. In Geographies of Gender, Tadashi Ishikawa delves into a variety of diplomatic issues, colonial and anticolonial discourses, and judicial cases, finding marriage gifts, daughter adoption, and premarital sexual relationships to be sites of tension between norms and ideals among both elite and ordinary men and women. He explores how the Japanese empire became a gendered space from the 1910s through the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, arguing that gender norms were both unsettled and reinforced in ways which highlight the instability of metropole-colony relations.

Avendano, Ana, Solidarity Betrayed: How Unions Enable Sexual Harassment - And How They Can Do Better. 272 pp. 2025:2 (Pluto Pr., UK) <723-219>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4906-0 paper ¥5,326.- (税込) GB￡ 18.99

In the years since #MeToo, a fundamental shift in public consciousness about sexual harassment in the workplace has taken root. So what are trade unions, whose mission it is to improve the lives of workers, doing to address sexual harassment? Solidarity Betrayed critiques the US labour movement's failures on the taboo subject of sexual harassment. Ana Avendano draws on decades of organising experience to provide a compelling insider's account of trade unions' complicity, collusion, victim blaming and lack of perpetrator accountability. Sharing survivors' stories and examples of how labour leaders and bureaucrats have perpetrated abuse, Avendano explores how labour laws and practices are accomplices in perpetuating harassment, and how women labour leaders are too often enablers. She concludes with examples of what some unions are already doing to address the problem, and offers aspirational recommendations that unions and their allies can adopt to create harassment-free workplaces.

Walker, Brenda L. (ed.), Journeys of Black Women in Academe: Shared Lessons, Experiences, and Insights. (Diversity in Higher Education 26) 240 pp. 2024:6 (Emerald, UK) <723-1007>
ISBN 978-1-83549-269-7 hard ¥27,416.- (税込) US$ 124.00

What advice or lessons learned would you want seasoned Black women in academe to impart to early and mid-career women faculty, researchers, and administrators of color, especially those of African descent? This book is composed of narratives from Black American women professors who have been in higher education for at least two decades. Despite all challenges and obstacles, these scholars have enjoyed successful careers in the Academy. They share reflections on critical incidents and select lessons that they experienced and learned from throughout their accomplished careers. In this book, academic wisdom aligns with ancestral wisdom to benefit emerging scholars, faculty, and administrators in academia. Journeys of Black Women in Academe provides lessons that are instructive to faculty and administrators across race and gender boundaries relative to the successes and challenges that African American women continue to experience in academia.

Bjoerklund, Elisabet / Juelich, Solveig (eds.), Rethinking the Public Fetus: Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Pregnancy. (Rochester Studies in Medical History) 354 pp. 2024:1 (U. Rochester Pr., US) <723-1012>
ISBN 978-1-64825-071-2 paper ¥11,220.- (税込) GB￡ 40.00

Exploring a wide variety of visualizations of pregnancy and fetuses through 300 years of history, this timely volume offers a fresh look at the influential feminist concept of the "public fetus." Images of pregnant and fetal bodies are today visible everywhere. Through ultrasound screenings at maternity clinics, birth videos on social media platforms, or antiabortion propaganda, visualizations of pregnancy are available and accessible as never before. The origins of today's visual culture of pregnancy are often traced back to the 1960s, when Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson's stunning photographs of human development were published in Life magazine and widely disseminated over the world. But the public display of pregnant and fetal bodies actually has a much longer and more complex history. In this timely book, a group of scholars from a range of disciplines explores this multifaceted history by highlighting visualizations of pregnant and fetal bodies in a variety of geographical and cultural contexts, spanning a period of more than 300 years. By reengaging with the crucial concept of the "public fetus," coined by feminist scholars in the 1980s and 1990s, the volume aims to revitalize the scholarly discussion on the visual culture of pregnancy and demonstrate the constructed nature of fetal images. Including chapters on a wide variety of representations in different media, such as wet specimen collections, papier-mache models, sculpture, film, and photography, the book provides a much-needed argument against the widespread notion of the "universal" fetus. On publication this title is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons License: CC-BY-NC-ND.

Briggs, Rachel V. / Harle, Michaelyn S. et al. (eds.), Mississippian Women. (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) 370 pp. 2024:6 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <723-1014>
ISBN 978-1-68340-414-9 hard ¥21,004.- (税込) US$ 95.00

Highlighting the role of precontact Indigenous women in building and transforming Mississippian cultureThis volume highlights how women were powerful farmers, economic decision-makers, spiritual leaders, and agents of social integration in the diverse societies of the Mississippian world, which spanned the present-day United States South to the Midwest before the seventeenth century. While Mississippian societies are some of the most well-researched pre-European contact societies on the continent, little attention has been dedicated specifically to Mississippian women. These chapters offer new insights into the vital role women played within their communities, an approach directly informed by the powerful position of American Indian women within contemporary American Indian communities.Contributors examine themes such as identity, labor, grieving, cooking, craft production, spatial organization, prestige, morbidity, kinship, and fertility. Case studies include sites throughout the Mississippian world, ranging from Illinois to Florida, including Cahokia and Moundville. Mississippian Women is the first volume to focus solely on the political, social, and economic power of women during this period, linking their actions in building their culture before European colonialism with the work of Indigenous women in the region today.A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Calvert, Katherine E., Modeling Motherhood in Weimar Germany: Political and Psychological Discourses in Women's Writing. (Women and Gender in German Studies) 188 pp. 2023:11 (Camden House, UK) <723-1015>
ISBN 978-1-64014-167-4 hard ¥23,842.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Reveals how socialist discourses and psychoanalytic ideas shaped the modern models of motherhood envisioned by left-wing and socially critical women writers working in the Weimar press and literary spheres. Women's experiences and opportunities in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) were shaped by tensions between advances in women's rights and widespread adherence to conservative notions of gender roles and women's maternal duty. This book explores these tensions, which were particularly pronounced on the political left, by analyzing socialist and socially critical women writers' interventions in contemporary debates on gender and women's role in society. For women in Weimar Germany, writing represented a subversive medium through which they could individualize reproductive politics and imagine modern models of mothering. Relatable and aspirational mothering practices and mother figures feature in the literary and journalistic texts examined in this book. Theoretical and instructional works (by Alice Ruehle-Gerstel and Henny Schumacher) and examples from the Social Democratic women's magazine Frauenwelt demonstrate how women writers adopted and adapted emerging psychological ideas to position their texts as modern and authoritative. A close analysis of critically neglected didactic texts (by Hermynia Zur Muehlen, Maria Leitner, Elfriede Bruening, and Else Kienle) and socially critical popular fiction (by Irmgard Keun, Vicki Baum, and Gabriele Tergit) exposes how women writers envisaged models of motherhood and family that were compatible with their political beliefs and modern lifestyles. This book reveals a pragmatic discourse that advocated progressive policies regarding reproductive choice and the rights of single mothers while leaving notions of women's maternal nature and duty largely unchallenged.

セクシュアリティの歴史における史料と方法
Clark, Anna / Williams, Elizabeth W. (eds.), Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality. (Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources) 288 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-1017>
ISBN 978-1-03-265583-3 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-265581-9 paper ¥9,814.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99

Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality outlines some of the challenges of retracing sexual acts, identities, and desires in the past, and shows how historians have responded to these methodological challenges with ingenuity and creativity.The volume acknowledges that the history of sexuality poses particularly interesting challenges in relation to sources due the peculiar nature of sexuality-on one hand, sexuality is frequently hidden and private, its practices often unknown, denied and evaded, its desires fleeting or obsessive, its reality confused or illuminated by fantasy. Yet on the other, sexuality consistently breaks into the public sphere through moral panics, waves of persecution, taxonomizing projects, and medical/juridical interventions. With vivid case studies from renowned contributors, the chapters provide different theoretical approaches, along with more practical examples of how to study the history of sexuality. The volume has a broad chronology from the ancient world to the present, an extensive geography covering not only Europe and the Americas but also Latin America and Africa, and also includes a variety of gender and sexual expressions. The book also privileges texts that offer an intersectional approach, asking how sex and sexualities were constructed alongside/against other categories of difference.With accessible writing, this volume encourages the reader to think creatively about how to find evidence of sex/sexuality in the past and will be of value to students as well as scholars interested in the history of sexuality.

アメリカのフェミニズム－入門
Dahl Crossley, Alison, Feminism in the United States: A Concise Introduction. 272 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-1018>
ISBN 978-1-03-231724-3 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-231719-9 paper ¥7,009.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99

Feminism in the United States: A Concise Introduction presents readers with the key debates and ideas central to contemporary US feminism. With a focus on intersectionality, the book highlights the goals, tactics, and varieties of feminism.This engaging, clear, and accessible text includes current examples, case studies, profiles of key figures in the movement, and opportunities/resources to gather more information. The reader will learn how to employ a feminist lens as an informed conversationalist, social media user, news consumer, and if so desired, activist. Readers will learn about the varieties of contemporary US feminism and how different strands of feminism emerge; the heterogeneity of the movement as it endures over generations in both hospitable and inhospitable climates; and the inequalities addressed and tactics used by feminists to create lasting social change.Feminism in the United States is ideal for undergraduate students, particularly those enrolled in introductory classes in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies and related programs, as well as for the anyone seeking to explore feminism for the first time.

Eckert, Kelsie Brook, Teaching Women's History: Breaking Barriers and Undoing Male Centrism in K-12 Social Studies. 344 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-1020>
ISBN 978-1-03-275196-2 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-269311-8 paper ¥7,570.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99

Teaching Women's History: Breaking Barriers and Undoing Male Centrism in K-12 Social Studies challenges and guides K-12 history teachers to incorporate comprehensive and diverse women's history into every region and era of their history curriculum.Providing a wealth of practical examples, ideas, and lesson plans - all backed by scholarly research - for secondary and middle school classes, this book demonstrates how teachers can weave women's history into their curriculum today. It breaks down how history is taught currently, how teachers are prepared, and what expectations are set in state standards and textbooks, and then shows how teachers can use pedagogical approaches to better incorporate women's voices into each of these realms. Each chapter explores a major barrier to teaching an inclusive history and how to overcome it, and every chapter ends with an inquiry-based lesson plan on women or using women's sources which stands counter to the way curriculum is traditionally taught, a case-in-point that tasks readers to realize how women have been integral to every period of history.With expert guidance from an award-winning social studies teacher, this guidebook will be important reading for middle and high school history educators. It will also be beneficial to preservice teachers, particularly within Social Studies Education and Gender Studies.Additional resources for educators are available to view at www.remedialherstory.com.

移行期における前近代のマスキュリニティ
Eisenbichler, Konrad / Murray, Jacqueline (eds.), Premodern Masculinities in Transition. (Gender in the Middle Ages) 224 pp. 2024:3 (Boydell, UK) <723-1021>
ISBN 978-1-83765-170-2 hard ¥19,635.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00

Sheds new light on how masculinity was understood, lived, performed and viewed during a period of huge change. Premodern masculinity was multivalent and dynamic, a series of intersecting, conflicting, and mutating identities that nevertheless were distinct and recognizable to people and their societies. The articles collected here examine a variety of means by which masculinity was constructed, deconstructed, and transformed across time, geographies, and cultures. Articles range across the twelfth to seventeenth century, from western Europe to the Volga-Ural region, from the Christian west to the Muslim east, from Ottomans to Mongols and Persians, from Baudri of Bourgueil to Blaise de Monluc; while topics include the chivalric hero, the effeminate man, beards, and spurs, represented variously in literature, historical documents, and art. Finally, in that period of great transformation that is the sixteenth century, they show how masculinity moved away from the traditional and recognizable to become something different and distinct from its premodern expressions.

Evans, Jennifer V. / Rose, Shelley E. (eds.), Gender in Germany and Beyond: Exploring the Legacy of Jean Quataert. 256 pp. 2023:5 (Berghahn, US) <723-1022>
ISBN 978-1-80073-952-9 hard ¥29,848.- (税込) US$ 135.00

Jean Quataert redefined the boundaries of at least five historical fields including European socialism, women's history and gender history, and international law and human rights. In this volume dedicated to her pioneering work, established and emerging scholars showcase the signature ways in which Quataert, as one of the discipline's first women's historians, has influenced how subsequent generations think about history writing as a form of intellectual activism. Gender in Germany and Beyond presents cutting edge historiographical commentary alongside new work which address subjects such as the history of German colonialism and women's colonial leagues, human rights advocacy during the Cold War, and the complexities of turn of the century gay and lesbian rights organizing.

Goerlich, Stefani / Helfer, Elyssa, BDSM and Kink: The Basics. (The Basics) 256 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-1026>
ISBN 978-1-03-232102-8 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-232063-2 paper ¥4,765.- (税込) GB￡ 16.99

BDSM and Kink: The Basics provides an essential overview of knowledge that every clinician should have about alternative sexualities.In an accessible, user-friendly format, the authors offer a high-level yet comprehensive introduction to the world of Bondage and discipline, Dominance and submission, sadomasochism, fetishists and more. Written by two of the leading experts on working with kinky clients, BDSM and Kink: The Basics takes a sex positive, kink-affirming approach to the material, exploring everything from etiologies and basic terminology through risk assessment and clinical best practices. The perfect desk reference for any clinician who wants to expand their understanding of erotic minorities, this book will prepare you to meet your clients with curiosity and competency while offering digital resources and specific suggestions to deepen your knowledge wherever you need it most.This book is essential for mental health and medical providers, educators, and individuals interested in learning more about BDSM and Kink.

Gunn, Cate / McAvoy, L. H. / Yoshikawa, Naoe Kukita (eds.), Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages: Giving Voice to Silence. Essays in Honour of Catherine Innes-Parker. (Gender in the Middle Ages) 332 pp. 2023:11 (D. S. Brewer, UK) <723-1028>
ISBN 978-1-84384-662-8 hard ¥23,842.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker. Silence was a much-lauded concept in the Middle Ages, particularly in the context of religious literature directed at women. Based on the Pauline prescription that women should neither preach nor teach, and should at all times keep speech to a minimum, the concept of silence lay at the forefront of many devotional texts, particularly those associated with various forms of women's religious enclosure. Following the example of the Virgin Mary, religious women were exhorted to speak seldom, and then only seriously and devoutly. However, as this volume shows, such gendered exhortations to silence were often more rhetorical than literal. The contributions range widely: they consider the English 'Wooing Group' texts and female-authored visionary writings from the Saxon nunnery of Helfta in the thirteenth century; works by Richard Rolle and the Dutch mystic Jan van Ruusbroec in the fourteenth century; Anglo-French treatises, and books housed in the library of the English noblewoman Cecily Neville in the fifteenth century; and the resonant poetics of women from non-Christian cultures. But all demonstrate the ways in which silence, rather than being a mere absence of speech, frequently comprised a form of gendered articulation and proto-feminist point of resistance. They thus provide an apt commemoration and celebration of the deeply innovative work of Catherine Innes-Parker (1956-2019), the respected feminist scholar and a pioneer of this important field of study.

Hoag, Ann Catherine, Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era: Changing Times, Changing Spaces. 232 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <723-1029>
ISBN 978-1-03-250521-3 hard ¥36,465.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era engages feminist, temporal, and narrative theories to offer fresh examinations of interwar era accounts by women about travel and movement, and considers the use and limitations of time as a subversive force in their texts. This book makes a significant contribution to the under-examined study of women's travel writing between the wars, and synthesizes and applies a variety of feminist, narrative and postcolonial theories to excavate new understandings of the intersection between women, travel, and time in writing. The book studies the emergence of the aviatrix after the Great War and moves through to the representations of war in women's travel on the brink of World War Two. Each chapter offers a unique theoretical framework and examines how experiences of time impact perceptions of women's bodies and identities, their engagement with history and discourse, and the problematic influence on colonialism.Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era is essential reading to any student or researcher in the field of women's travel writing, as well as scholars of gender studies, war and interwar history, and cultural heritage.

Joshi, Meghana, Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin. (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 53) 177 pp. 2023:11 (Berghahn, US) <723-1033>
ISBN 978-1-80539-166-1 hard ¥26,532.- (税込) US$ 120.00

Children are Everywhere engages with how demographic anxieties and reproductive regimes emerge as forms of social inclusion and exclusion in a low fertility Western European context. This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of 'ethnic' Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities. This is the first ethnographic work by a South Asian author on demographic anxieties and reproduction in Germany and reverses the anthropological gaze to study Europe as the 'Other.'

Lehner, Ulrich L., Inszenierte Keuschheit: Sexualdelikte in der Gesellschaft Jesu im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. (Fruehe Neuzeit 254) 294 S. 2023:11 (de Gruyter, GW) <723-1034>
ISBN 978-3-11-131098-5 hard ¥14,243.- (税込) EUR 59.95

Die historische Aufarbeitung von sexuellem Missbrauch und Gewalt in der Fruehen Neuzeit steht noch ganz am Anfang. Auf detaillierten Archivrecherchen beruhend, geht diese Studie Sexualdelikten im Jesuitenorden nach, die an Schuelern, Studenten, Beichtkindern, und anderen Jesuiten veruebt worden sind. Dabei werden Muster von sexueller Gewalt deutlich, die sich auf spirituelle Bereiche ausdehnten, aber von den Ordensoberen nur in Extremfaellen geahndet wurden. Dieser Ansatz ermoeglicht es, ein neues Licht auf die Geschichte jesuitischer Bildungs- und Seelsorgeeinrichtungen zu werfen.

Middlemiss, Aimee Louise, Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England. (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives) 256 pp. 2024:2 (Berghahn, US) <723-1039>
ISBN 978-1-80539-257-6 hard ¥29,848.- (税込) US$ 135.00

Tracing women's experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less 'real' or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. Invisible Labours describes the reproductive politics of this category of pregnancy loss in England. It shows how second trimester pregnancy loss produces specific medical and social experiences, revealing an underlying teleological ontology of pregnancy. Some women then understand their pregnancy through kinship with the unborn baby.

工場における女性　1880～1930年－階級とジェンダー
Moring, Beatrice, Women in the Factory, 1880-1930: Class and Gender. 312 pp. 2024:4 (Boydell, UK) <723-1040>
ISBN 978-1-83765-026-2 hard ¥23,842.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

A rich and detailed picture, across Britain and many other European countries, of the nature of women's factory work, the problems which arose and how women factory inspectors understood and reacted to the problems. Based on extensive original archival research both in Britain and in many European countries, this book is a comparative study of the large numbers of women who were engaged in industrial work in the western world in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, that is at a time when the industrial revolution was established and the problems caused by industrial work had become part of political debate and social discourse worldwide. It analyses the scope of female factory work, what the conditions were in such work, and what the motivations were for women to enter such employment. It reveals the composition of the female workforce as to age and marital status. In addition, it considers the first generation of female industrial inspectors, outlining the background of these inspectors, assessing to what extent were they were capable of taking on the role of protectors of women in manual work, and discussing the actions and attitudes of the female inspectors as recorded in inspection reports, biographies and contemporary discourse. Overall, the book presents a rich, detailed, comparative picture of women's factory work, contributing much to the understanding of the history of gender and class.

Piercy, Hannah, Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance: Negotiating Consent, Gender, and Desire. (Studies in Medieval Romance) 290 pp. 2023:11 (D. S. Brewer, UK) <723-1044>
ISBN 978-1-84384-672-7 paper ¥7,009.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99

This book explores resistance as a widespread motif in medieval romance to consider themes of consent, gender, and desire. Medieval romance is usually considered a genre that celebrates love, desire, and sexuality within marriage. However, moments of resistance within it offer a point of tension, where normative scripts and expectations are exposed and opened up to challenge. This book explores such resistance as a widespread motif in the genre, tracing the subversive possibilities it presents, and through them uncovering how romance constitutes particular kinds of love as desirable, shaped by intersecting factors, including gender, status, race, religion, and morality. Drawing upon contemporary work on consent, the politics of desire, and asexuality, it examines how resistance is often transformed into acceptance, through consensual negotiation or coercive force: the romances discussed here demonstrate that a certain level of force, pressure, and persuasion is accepted as a means of forming relationships within the genre, but this reliance on coercion reveals the effort to which romances must go to uphold normative structures of desire. Considering a variety of works, from Marie de France's twelfth-century Guigemar to Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, Geoffrey Chaucer's Franklin's Tale to William Caxton's fifteenth-century prose romances, this book argues that romance teaches its readers what and whom to desire, as well as how to behave when negotiating their desires, and explores the wider implications for understanding consent, gender, and desire in medieval England. This book is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative-Commons License CC-BY-NC-ND

Raha, Nat / van der Drift, Mijke, Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds. 208 pp. 2024:11 (Pluto Pr., UK) <723-1045>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4940-4 paper ¥4,765.- (税込) GB￡ 16.99

'Femme' describes a constellation of queer, gendered expressions that uproot expectations of what it means to be feminine. Transfeminists take their experiences of desire, belonging and harm to create collective power through femininity, fighting for marginalised and non-conforming people. Trans Femme Futures enriches this power. As trans people find themselves increasingly oppressed, envisioning a future is an act of revolution. The authors discuss struggles around trans healthcare and the need for collective autonomy, the importance of practising self-care, transfeminism as abolition, and the role of Social Reproduction Theory. Ultimately the authors show how social transformation can be achieved through harnessing the knowledge that trans femmes are, have been and can be agents of transformative practices that allow queer life to thrive, especially in this current moment of climate, health, political and economic crises.

イギリスのフェミニズム史
Rustin, Susanna, Sexed: A History of British Feminism. 286 pp. 2024:6 (Polity Pr., UK) <723-1046>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5911-4 hard ¥5,527.- (税込) US$ 25.00

Susanna Rustin's Sexed is a radical retelling of the story of British feminism. Starting in the revolutionary 1790s and ending in the present day, she introduces the 1830s radicals who demanded "LIBERTY FOR EVER!", Victorian petitioners who expected to be dead before women won the vote, and rival camps of suffragists who embraced and rejected violence. She considers the contributions of the first female MPs, as well as activists including the Greenham peace protesters and the black and Asian women's groups of the 1970s and 1980s.Her goal? To show how successive generations have fiercely contested what it means to be a woman, and why this matters. Biology on its own is not destiny. But this book argues that differences between male and female bodies have always been feminist issues. While gender is a useful concept, women cannot be supported by a politics that forgets that they, like men, are sexed.

〔英訳〕ドイツ系ユダヤ人のジェンダー史－入門
Schueler-Springorum, Stefanie, Gender History of German Jews: A Short Introduction. Tr. by C. Reid. (Perspectives on the History of German Jews 1) 148 pp. 2024:2 (Berghahn, US) <723-1048>
ISBN 978-1-80539-286-6 hard ¥26,532.- (税込) US$ 120.00

This concise overview traces the Gender history of German-Jews from the early modern period to the present day and provides a unique perspective on both men and women as historical actors in the German lands. By adopting new perspectives on the German-Jewish experience, Stefanie Schueler-Springorum introduces and examines gender narratives and opportunities across a wide range of individual circumstances and during times of discrimination, persecution and deportation. While being directed against all Jews the effects of Nazi policy had remarkably different results, depending on gender, class, marital status, age and religious affiliation. The picture that emerges here of German Jewry in modern times is consequently more vibrant and nuanced.

Sears, Alan, Eros and Alienation: Capitalism and the Making of Gendered Sexualities. (Mapping Social Reproduction Theory) 256 pp. 2024:11 (Pluto Pr., UK) <723-1049>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4943-5 paper ¥5,326.- (税込) GB￡ 18.99

Eros and Alienation delves into the underexplored relationship between alienated labour and sexuality. Our deeply human drive to shape the world around us and fulfil ourselves through labour is subverted by capitalist alienation, leaving us to find fulfilment elsewhere. As a result, our erotic drives become the central focus for transformation and life-making, but are themselves restricted and fuelled by whatever energy is left after completing the monetised or social reproductive work required to survive. This alienation encounters ongoing resistance, as life-making activity can never be fully separated from the person who labours. Alan Sears explores the ways this alienation frames the processes of gender and sexual formation, showing how the organisation of work contributes to the development of a dominant regime of gendered sexualities, defined by a binary gender mapping of desire as heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual.

Spencer, Elizabeth, Describing Women's Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England. (Pasold Studies in Textile, Dress and Fashion History) 222 pp. 2024:3 (Boydell, UK) <723-1051>
ISBN 978-1-83765-034-7 hard ¥19,635.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00

Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century. Descriptions of women's clothing increasingly circulated across textual genres and beyond in eighteenth-century England. This book explores the significance of these descriptions across a range of sources including wills, newspapers, accounts, court records, and the records of the old poor law. Attention has rested on women literate and wealthy enough to leave behind textual or material traces, but this book ranges from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider descriptive languages, rhetorical strategies, and relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy. It explores how women described their own clothing, but also looks at how it was described by overseers, family members, retailers, and even strangers. It shows that we must look beyond isolated descriptions to how, why, and who was describing clothing to understand its role. Chapters uncover themes of material obligation, expectation, and entitlement. This book also contributes to our understanding of the material literacy of eighteenth-century consumers. It traces the role of textual description in this dissemination of knowledge about clothing, but also alerts us to what was happening beyond the written word, drawing attention to the communication of multisensory information. Above all, it demonstrates that there remains much still to be unpicked from textual sources.