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

Chattopadhyay, Shrimoyee, Non-Conforming Women in Neoliberal Cities: Re-thinking Empowerment in Contemporary Diaspora Fiction and Film. 192 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-876>
ISBN 978-1-041-03326-4 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-03881-8 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book investigates the complex role space and movement play in the representation of South Asian diasporic communities in contemporary diaspora literature and films, the question of female empowerment in neoliberal Western cities, and the impact of trauma on female identities. It highlights the literary and cinematic portrayal of South Asian people's migration to the UK and the US after the Second World War and discusses how the identities of the female characters are transformed in neoliberal cities. Focusing on South Asian women writers and directors, who are first- and second-generation immigrants in the West, the volume analyses how their works depict female empowerment in both British and American settings.The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, film studies, diaspora studies, gender studies and South Asian studies.

Skrimsjoe, Veronica, The Vinyl Revival, Gender, and Collecting Aesthetics. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) 160 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-911>
ISBN 978-1-032-51046-0 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The book considers record collecting and vinyl consumption in the 21st century and in the context of the vinyl revival. The book highlights gender, and how gender disparity is expressed in vinyl communities.Veronica Skrimsjoe considers vinyl consumerism and collecting and how the collector identifies themselves within the socio-political environment of the Global North, with a particular focus on gender. The book includes considerations of Record Store Day, DIY and DI-together cultures, as well as the historic context needed to evaluate record collecting in the twenty-first century.The work is aimed at both an academic and a general readership, and as such strikes a more informal tone. Personal experiences are emphasised throughout because vinyl consumers are not a homogenous group, and it is only via personal experiences that we can understand the complexity of consumption. The personal also helps make the content more relatable, which is crucial as old stereotypes helped distance the collector for the everyday consumer. Readers will benefit from a different perspective on record collecting and consumptions as the book highlights active, creative consumption, and provides an in-depth, innovative analysis of how gender inequality is constructed within this context.

Sliwinska, Basia (ed.), Contemporary Transnational Feminist Visual Activism and Gender-Based Violence. 272 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-912>
ISBN 978-1-032-79709-0 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-79949-0 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book illuminates arts activist interventions that raise consciousness and advocacy for women's right to a life free from violence.In a context where Gender-Based Violence (GBV) has continued to intensify across the globe, the international range of essays focus on violations of bodily integrity and autonomy, reproductive, domestic and sexual violence, femicide and feminicide. Comparing and interrogating arts activist strategies and visual methods, the book also explores tactics employed by arts activists attentive to effects and lived experiences of GBV, and imagining potential solutions founded in feminist thinking to change behaviours and raise awareness generating systemic change. The case studies of feminist transnational contemporary arts activism include examples from Austria, Brazil, Canada, Ghana, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Mexico and the United States. Arts engaged with include textile work, crafts-making, performance art, clay work, protest art, and documentary art, indicating the breadth and richness of the work of feminist political artists. At a time when, according to the UN Women's estimates, almost one in three women have been subjected to violence, it is critical to understand how feminist politics catalyses social, cultural and political changes.This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, women's studies, gender studies, and visual culture.

Murphy, Timothy F., Paid Sexual Encounters among Men: A Study in Ethics and Law. (Routledge Research in Applied Ethics) 246 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-92>
ISBN 978-1-032-94640-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book analyzes the ethics of men buying and selling sex to one another. It gathers in one place key ethical and legal issues that bear on the justification for the criminalization of male prostitution.At present, prostitution-the solicitation or offer of paid sexual encounters-is criminalized in virtually the entire United States. Male prostitution is poorly studied across academic disciplines, and this book represents the first sustained ethical analysis of the topic. First, it shows that paid sexual encounters among men belong on a spectrum of transactional sexual relationships, and that many of its features are not distinctive in a way that justifies condemnation. It shows as well that the sexuality involved-men having sex with men-does not involve relationships that are immoral in a way that might justify criminalization. The book also demonstrates that men buying and selling sexual encounters can consent in morally meaningful ways, without reinforcing status inequality, Finally, the book reviews key constitutional law cases to show that a certain interpretation of the relationship between the law and morality justifies decriminalization of male prostitution.Paid Sexual Encounters among Men will appeal to scholars and graduate students working in applied ethics, the philosophy of sex and gender, sociology, and law.

Putzi, Jennifer (ed.), The Reconstruction Diary of Frances Anne Rollin: A Critical Edition. 304 pp. 2025:10 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-989>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9001-8 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9002-5 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In 1867, Frances Anne Rollin, a Black writer and teacher from South Carolina, traveled to Boston to seek a publisher for her biography of famed Black abolitionist, writer, and Civil War veteran Martin R. Delany-the first full-length biography written by an African American. Beginning in January 1868, Rollin kept a diary while in Boston documenting her progression on Delany's biography, negotiations with publishers, visits from friends, attendance at lectures and readings, and her marriage to William J. Whipper, a Black politician and jurist. Rollin's diary is one of the earliest known diaries by a Southern Black woman. In this critical edition Jennifer Putzi offers the first complete transcription and annotation of Rollin's diary, along with a robust introduction providing important biographical, historical, cultural, and literary contexts for readers. Rollin's diary provides one of the fullest pictures of an African American woman as an author, activist, and well-connected and politically involved individual during the Reconstruction era-filling a gap in the literature and scholarly analysis of such preserved works by nineteenth-century African American women.

戦争と政治的暴力の時代における女性の役割
Kuzma, Inga B. / Pietrzak, Edyta B., Women's Roles in Times of War and Political Violence: Reclaiming Herstory. (Routledge Research in Gender and Society) 152 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <748-628>
ISBN 978-1-032-66114-8 hard ¥14,979.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99 *

This book explores the socio-political practice of collective memory in the context of prejudices and stereotypes that circulate in the public sphere with regard to the role of women experiencing wartime and political violence.With a focus on Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, it draws on memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, testimonies by women authors, ideological proclamations and secular 'hagiographies' of heroines, female leaders and contemporary role models to examine the ways in which the oppression experienced by women during war is reflected in public discourse, how prejudices and stereotypes concerning the role of women are used politically and how women respond to the politicisation of their own narratives and participation in violence. Guided by the idea that memory is political, such that how we think about it, speak about it and how create it is a political issue, Women's Roles in Times of War and Political Violence highlights the fate and experiences of those who have been and are still denied their 'own voice' by society. It will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in women's studies, collective memory and women's wartime experiences.

Ferrer, Lorena Cervera, A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary. (Routledge Advances in Film Studies) 176 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-758>
ISBN 978-1-032-67915-0 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary provides a new lens through which to revisit the history of Latin American cinema and proposes three approximations to the study of women's documentary produced between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s.With a focus on documentaries with clear political intents, this book illustrates some of the thematic interests, authorial modes, production practices, formal devices, and aesthetic strategies employed by women filmmakers. Through analysis of the contexts, processes, and forms of a selection of films, the author shows how these non-fiction films shed light on the precarious conditions that characterised women's greater entry into the workforce, on the circulation of feminist ideas, and on the inevitable questioning of identity that resulted from migration and displacement.This volume will appeal to scholars and students interested in women's and feminist cinema, documentary history, theory, and practice, and Latin American history and culture.

Ndubuizu, Rosemary, The Undesirable Many: Black Women and Their Struggles Against Displacement and Housing Insecurity in the Nation's Capital. (Justice, Power, and Politics) 296 pp. 2025:11 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-834>
ISBN 978-1-4696-8967-8 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-8968-5 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Amid a national housing affordability crisis with political and social implications, Washington, DC is notorious for its rapidly rising income inequality, high rates of displacement, and some of the most expensive rents in the country. Housing policy expert Rosemary Ndubuizu uncovers more than years of affordable housing politics in the nation's capital to illustrate local and national trends in how various social, economic, and political forces have worked together to ensure the persistent vulnerability of low-wage Black families to housing insecurity and displacement.Since the 9 s, Black women have been at the forefront of combating efforts to force them out of DC. The Undesirable Many recounts the history of Black women's tenant activism and organized opposition through a Black feminist materialism framework that exposes present-day housing inequities as deeply entangled in the politics and practices of gender and racial inequity. Drawing upon extensive archival research and dozens of in-depth interviews with Black women tenant activists and affordable housing advocates, Ndubuizu uncovers how gendered stereotypes of Black tenant irresponsibility have shaped market behavior and informed political justification for different consumer treatment. Politicians, landlords, and even nonprofit housing providers often championed disciplinary housing governance such as mandatory housekeeping classes, welfare garnishment, paternal property management, and case management, contending that the problem was not housing but the Black family itself. By exposing these strategies alongside low-income Black women's political perspectives and experiences, The Undesirable Many offers valuable lessons for contemporary challenges in affordable housing advocacy and welfare politics.

Bouchard, Danielle, Humanity's Ruins: Ethics, Feminism, and Genocidal Humanitarianism. 304 pp. 2025:8 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-86>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2879-6 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3206-9 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

同意と生殖の主体の語り
Halliday, Samantha / Brione, Rebecca / Nicholls, J. (eds.), Narratives of Consent and Reproductive Subjects: Tales of Invisibility. 294 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-416>
ISBN 978-1-032-20264-8 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Consent is the golden principle that determines the legality of most medical treatment. However, whilst choice is the much-vaunted central tenet of maternity care, its importance emphasised in policy documents, the lived experience is often rather different, particularly in the case of individuals constructed as 'other'. This collection brings together a range of researchers from multiple disciplines to address the issue of choice in the context of reproduction, focussing upon narratives of consent as they pertain to reproductive subjects who all too often are rendered invisible by the law, by the healthcare professionals treating them, or by society. It explores the contours of consent in England and Wales, engaging with reproductive justice by focussing upon the way in which reproductive subjects are othered, treated differently due to their skin colour, their genetic make up, the fact that they have a serious mental illness or even those who do not want to be mothers. It presents original research, bringing together multiple perspectives in examining the way in which individuals are rendered invisible in the context of reproductive healthcare. The book will be essential reading for academics and professionals in law, nursing, medicine, midwifery, sociology, ethics and anthropology.

Player, Elaine / Genders, Elaine, Therapeutic Community for Women Prisoners: Re-imagining Rehabilitation and the Loss of Liberty. 292 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-477>
ISBN 978-1-032-94862-1 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-94861-4 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Based upon an extensive empirical study of a democratic therapeutic community (DTC) for women serving long and medium sentences, this book explores the opportunities it provided for reparative and restorative rehabilitation. In so doing it identifies some of the interconnected ways in which these ambitions are undermined by pervasive, yet often tacit, assumptions that underly penal policies and practices. Drawing on a wealth of data gathered from a study spanning a period of 18 years at the only DTC for women prisoners in the UK, the book highlights how feminist criminology has revealed an invidious history of women's treatment in prison, demonstrating how reformist and rehabilitative interventions have reproduced and exacerbated existing states of inequality and oppression. Consequently, the question explored in this book is whether a proportionate sentence that imposes a loss of liberty is inevitably destined to this fate, or whether it can be constructed in ways that are progressive and transformative. By identifying and understanding some of the interconnected ways in which progressive efforts have typically been undermined, it opens a debate about the insinuation of certain, often unspoken, assumptions that underly penal policies and practices and the need for their deconstruction. It opens an axiomatic debate about how women imprisoned for serious offences, might have that loss of liberty interpreted to facilitate a restorative, reparative and reintegrative process of rehabilitation, informed by principles of social justice.Therapeutic Community for Women Prisoners: Re-imagining Rehabilitation and the Loss of Liberty will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, feminist studies, public policy, and human rights. It will also be of value to policy-makers and practitioners in women's prisons, and psychologists and psychiatrists interested in therapeutic communities.

黒人女性有権者を動員する
Michelson, Melissa R. / DeMora, Stephanie L. et al., Party at the Ballot Box: Mobilizing Black Women Voters. 304 pp. 2025:9 (New York U. Pr., US) <748-581>
ISBN 978-1-4798-3575-1 hard ¥18,503.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-4798-3576-8 paper ¥5,821.- (税込) US$ 28.00

How the Party at the Mailbox efforts in 2020-2024 led by Black Girls Vote used celebrations of community to increase voter turnout Black voters continue to transform America's electoral landscape and can play a powerful role in determining the outcome of elections. In Party at the Ballot Box, Melissa R. Michelson, Stephanie L. DeMora, and Sarah V. Hayes explore the impact of celebratory voter mobilization campaigns led by Black-led organizations on Black turnout, particularly as more states embrace voting-by-mail. Focusing on the Party at the Mailbox (PATM) initiative, coordinated by Black Girls Vote, Michelson, DeMora, and Hayes underscore what, exactly, motivates Black voters to show up to the polls. Using community-based informational and celebratory packages of materials, and with a mixed methods approach that includes randomized controlled trials, surveys, interviews, and focus groups, they show us how the PATM pilot increased Black turnout in Baltimore by double digits in the 2020 primaries. Despite voting by mail while sheltering in place, PATM made voters feel part of something bigger than themselves-that they were voting as a community. The successful pilot led to further PATM efforts in Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, Richmond, and Philadelphia between November 2020 and November 2024. Ultimately, the authors argue that Black Americans vote as a celebration of community, and that cultivating that sense of community is an effective means of increasing Black voter turnout. With a foreword by Nykidra Robinson, founder of Black Girls Vote, Party at the Ballot Box provides insights into Black voter turnout and its larger implications.

Zhou, Yun, The Woman's Messenger: Evangelical Literature and the Missionary Movement in Republican China. (World Christianity) 222 pp. 2025:11 (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) <748-160>
ISBN 978-0-271-10027-2 hard ¥20,787.- (税込) US$ 99.99

Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, China underwent tumultuous times-from nation building and the New Culture Movement to the Japanese occupation and the renunciations accompanying the Korean War. As Yun Zhou argues, this transformative period cannot be fully understood without considering the evolving role of women and Christianity in Chinese society.At the turn of the twentieth century, American missionary women established Nue duo (The Woman's Messenger), a Christian women's magazine based in Shanghai whose publication spanned four decades of changing values around feminine virtue. Tracing the magazine's evolution across its three editors, Zhou shows how growing intellectualism among the magazine's staff and readership challenged a homogenous ideal of womanhood. While Nue duo began under the editorship of a white American missionary championing traditional domestic values, the Chinese editors who went on to lead the magazine in subsequent decades broadened the boundaries of Christian gender ethics, emphasizing matters of indigenous agency, leftist thinking, theodicy, and personal spiritual elevation. Zhou shows how the magazine's trajectory points to a subtle yet profound process wherein the women involved-navigating ideas concerning God, gender, nation, warfare, and even the details of everyday life-became agents of historical change rather than mere recipients of it.Drawing from a wide range of sources from China and the West, this book makes an important contribution to the fields of women's studies, print culture, modern Chinese history, and world Christianity.

Addey, Crystal, Platonist Women. (Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy) 75 pp. 2025:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-18>
ISBN 978-1-009-53885-5 hard ¥14,131.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-15890-9 paper ¥4,805.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Chandran, Usha, Gender Discrimination at Work in Urban China: The Paradox of Equality and Difference in the Women's Liberation Movement. 220 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-237>
ISBN 978-1-032-40423-3 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book explores gender discrimination and women's movements in China-from the May Fourth movement to present day. It critically examines the dynamics of the personal and political, or 'home' and ''work', and the role this discourse plays in women's lives.The book looks at women's 'work' within the contested field of a gender power struggle both in the politics and society in China. Patterns of employment for women have evolved over the years and women have continued to face new challenges at home and outside as the boundaries between the political and personal blurs. This book analyses the birth of feminism in China, its amalgamation with Marxism to take the form of women's liberation movement propagated by the party and state and its impact on shaping contemporary Chinese women. It also discusses the theoretical and practical trajectory of women's liberation movement, and the changing ideas on women and gender in contemporary China.The book will be of interest to students and researchers of gender studies, political sociology, Chinese studies, sociology of work and industry, history of women's work in China, labour history, gender inequality, discrimination at workplace in China.

女性の経済安全保障、安全、自由を確保する－オーストラリアにおけるベーシックインカムの役割
Staines, Zoe, Securing Women's Economic Security, Safety, and Freedom: The Role of Universal Basic Income in Australia. 156 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <748-247>
ISBN 978-1-032-95787-6 hard ¥14,979.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a policy measure for supporting economic security has attracted worldwide attention. This book contributes to the discussion by focusing on UBI's potential impacts for women, including women of colour and First Nations women.Utilizing a "scenario interviewing" approach, the author worked with 26 diverse Australian women to imagine the potential implications of UBI for their own lives, as well as for women more broadly. The women talked about a range of possible impacts including poverty reduction, economic security, improved autonomy, and freedom from violence, which are sorted into overarching themes and chapters. Integrating these women's narratives into the key arguments for and against UBI, this book provides a robust and readable introduction to relevant literature.This book is suitable for a wide audience including scholars and students across the social sciences, as well as policymakers.

Batza, Katie, AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics. 192 pp. 2025:10 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-266>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9048-3 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9049-0 paper ¥5,186.- (税込) US$ 24.95

Histories of AIDS in the United States typically consider San Francisco and New York the epicenters of the crisis. The Midwest, if considered at all, appears as a footnote to the social, medical, and political struggles of coastal queer communities. But the US heartland cultivated its own regionally distinct strategies of survival that became the surprising and lasting blueprint for LGBTQ politics today. Unearthing this complex story, health activism expert Katie Batza masterfully illustrates the diversity, resilience, innovation, and influence of the Midwest's response to the AIDS epidemic.Though AIDS cases were relatively low, the conservative political and religious landscape, lack of medical infrastructure, and diffuse gay communities brought Midwesterners together in unexpected ways. Weaving compelling oral histories with remarkable archival research, Batza sheds light on the moving stories of a constellation of essential responders that included crop duster pilots, church van drivers, nuns, tribal leaders, and synagogue ladies in decommissioned convents, backyard barbeques, high school gyms, and city parks. These unique collaborations fostered loud, radical queer politics and homonormative strategies alike, but the myth of a homogenously white, Christian, and heterosexual heartland endured. In AIDS in the Heartland, Batza contends that the respectability and palatability of the heart of the nation prevail as core values in national LGBTQ political strategies today. Just as in the heart of the nation, Batza contends, respectability and palatability prevail as core values in national LGBTQ political strategies today.

Esparza, Rene, From Vice to Nice: Midwestern Politics and the Gentrification of AIDS. 320 pp. 2025:10 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-272>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9038-4 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9039-1 paper ¥6,849.- (税込) US$ 32.95

Shifting the focus of AIDS history away from the coasts to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, this impressive book uncovers how homonormative political strategies weaponized the AIDS crisis to fuel gentrification. During the height of the epidemic, white gay activists and politicians pursued social acceptance by assimilating to Midwestern cultural values. This approach, Rene Esparza argues, diluted radical facets of LGBTQ activism, rejected a politics of sexual dissidence, severed ties with communities of color, and ushered in the destruction of vibrant queer spaces.Drawing from archival research, oral histories, and urban studies from the 97 s through the 99 s, Esparza illustrates how the onset of the AIDS epidemic provided a pretext for further criminalization of perceived sexual deviance, targeting sex workers, "promiscuous" gay men, and transgender women. More than the criminalization of people and behaviors, it also saw increased targeting of urban venues such as bathhouses, adult bookstores, and public parks where casual, anonymous encounters occurred. Cleansing the city of land uses that undermined gentrification became a protective measure against the virus, and the most marginalized bore the brunt of the ensuing surveillance and displacement. Esparza contends that, despite purporting seemingly progressive values, LGBTQ Midwestern politics of conformity leveraged the AIDS crisis to further instigate racial and sexual exclusion and fundamentally alter the urban landscape.

Cornuel, Eric / Kleyn, Nicola / Thomas, H. et al. (eds.), Women In, and Beyond, Business Schools. (EFMD Management Education) 176 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-319>
ISBN 978-1-041-06551-7 hard ¥9,043.- (税込) GB￡ 31.99

This important book in the EFMD series shines a light on women (and sometimes the absence of them) within business schools, as well as their contributions and impact across multiple spheres within and beyond their schools.Despite the clear rationale for promoting sustainable gender equity, the experiences of women in business schools differs relative to male counterparts across geographies, student populations, faculty, professional staff and leaders in business schools. In this book, contributions from leading business school thinkers provide deep insight on gender equity to determine what hinders and accelerates progress in creating gender diverse and inclusive schools. Chapters both celebrate the progress of women in business schools and provide rich narratives that deepen insights into the lived experiences of women contributing both to, and beyond, business schools. At the same time, the volume serves as a sobering reminder business schools still have a long way to go before they can be used as exemplars in attracting diverse talents in all their forms and creating inclusive, equitable environments that role model the ideals that we advocate for business and society.The breadth and depth of contributions made by women as leaders, scholars and practitioners serve as an inspiration and guide as to how business schools can become more gender equitable for business school deans and professors.

セックス・セラピーと宗教国際ハンドブック
Jacobson, Caleb (ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Sex Therapy and Religion. (Routledge International Handbooks) 656 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-124>
ISBN 978-1-032-21359-0 hard ¥62,194.- (税込) GB￡ 220.00

The Routledge International Handbook of Sex Therapy and Religion is an invaluable resource for clinicians, religious scholars, clergy, and anyone interested in the intersection of religion and sexual health. By weaving together psychological theories, religious ethics, and cultural competence, this volume provides a holistic approach to sex therapy that honors the faith and values of diverse religious traditions. This handbook is not only a testament to the importance of integrating religious and cultural perspectives in therapeutic practice but also a vital tool for religious scholars and clergy in understanding and addressing sexual health issues within their communities. It serves as a call to action for greater competency in addressing the complex needs of religious clients in matters of sex, sexuality, and gender.

Kadmos, Helena / Massam, Katharine (eds.), Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies: Interdisciplinary Renderings of Faith, Hope and Love. (Gender, Theology and Spirituality) 240 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-127>
ISBN 978-1-032-90821-2 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies is interested in the place of story-tellers in communities of hope. Where some theologies wrestle for clarity of definition, feminist and other theologies of liberation begin from experience and tend towards story as a vehicle for speaking of the Divine. Ambiguity and precision both find their place. This collection embraces different materials to explore the place of stories and narrative within feminist theology, to explore how meaning 'happens', to seek justice and forge compassion. As for theology, so too with form. This volume does not just discuss but actively demonstrates a variety of ways in which stories can be heard and held. Between and within chapters, the authors weave together artwork, literature, creative nonfiction and poetic form with critically-informed and academic exposition to invite reflection on the place of story in creating solidarity and enabling community. The book contributes to scholarly conversations on feminist theological method, on the relationship between the arts and theology, and on the dialogue between secular and sacred in Australasia and elsewhere.

Ruden, Sarah, Perpetua: The Woman, the Martyr. (Ancient Lives) 208 pp. 2025:9 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-141>
ISBN 978-0-300-27371-7 hard ¥5,821.- (税込) US$ 28.00

An intimate and human portrait of Perpetua, a third-century woman author who was idealized as a Christian martyr On March 7, 203, in the monumental amphitheater at Carthage, Vibia Perpetua was one of five Christians who met their deaths after refusing to venerate the Roman emperor Septimius Severus and his son. Perpetua stood out from the other four, and in fact from all the other martyrs of her era and before: she was an aristocratic married woman with an infant son, and she is the first female prose author whose work survives. Offering a probing new translation of Perpetua's extraordinary prison diary and situating the life behind that diary within the turbulent late Roman Empire, Sarah Ruden tells the story of Perpetua's remarkable feat of self-invention as a martyr. As she builds on Perpetua's own words and integrates them into their religious and historical contexts, Ruden shines a light on Perpetua's disarming candidness, her brashness, and her naivete. In contrast to traditional portrayals of the saint as a brave but submissive young woman, Ruden's narrative reveals a complex individual who flaunts a vivid public persona as a martyr while at the same time navigating the emotions of a mother, daughter, sister, and friend approaching death.

Shoulders, Davis (ed.), Queer Communion: Religion in Appalachia. (Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices) 160 pp. 2025:10 (U. Pr. Kentucky, US) <748-146>
ISBN 978-1-9859-0295-4 hard ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95
ISBN 978-1-9859-0296-1 paper ¥4,147.- (税込) US$ 19.95

Thimm, Viola / Thajib, Ferdiansyah (eds.), Embracing Faith and Desire: Queer and Feminist Engagements with Islam and Christianity as Lived Religions. (Gendering the Study of Religion in the Social Sciences) 232 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-149>
ISBN 978-1-032-96830-8 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Embracing Faith and Desire investigates the intersection of gender, sexuality, and religion from an anthropological lens. Taking women's, non-binary, and queer religious life-worlds in Muslim and Christian contexts as a cross-cutting research theme, the book brings together scholars from different disciplines and regional contexts who are interested in the interconnectedness of gender dynamics, queerness, and religious principles.The explosive growth of contesting religions, especially in a Christian-Muslim context, represents a distinctively religious-political dynamic within globalization. It disrupts the global world order, influences hegemonic negotiations within and across nation-states, and shapes self-imaginations and practices of social actors. Consequently, it carries far-reaching political, religious, economic, and social ramifications. Embracing Faith and Desire explores these ramifications on various levels. The volume thereby contributes to debates on intersectionality, queer, and religious approaches alike by showcasing how the scopes and scales of action and the constructive shaping of self-images, social relations, and political actions of people are fundamentally dependent upon religious, gendered, and sexualized backgrounds. Embedding the contributions in the anthropology of religion, anthropology of gender, and queer anthropology, the book reconfigures our understanding of lived religion through the lens of gendered and queered imaginations, practices, and ideologies.

Wolff, M., Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us about Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging. 360 pp. 2025:8 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-158>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2878-9 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3204-5 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Backler, Katherine, Athena's Sisters: Reclaiming the Women of Classical Athens. 2026:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-1012>
ISBN 978-1-009-67232-0 hard ¥8,481.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00

Benadusi, Lorenzo, L'ennemi de l'homme nouveau: l'homosexualite dans l'experience totalitaire fasciste. 392 p. 2025:3 (Ed. Univ. de Dijon, FR) <748-1014>
ISBN 978-2-36441-540-9 paper ¥7,532.- (税込) EUR 32.00

性とオフィス－ジェンダー、権力、欲望の歴史　第2版
Berebitsky, Julie, Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire. With an new foreword by K. Turk & a new afterword by K. Parkin. 2nd ed. 392 pp. 2025:9 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-1015>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9141-1 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95

This transformative book examines men's and women's changing attitudes toward sex and gender in the US workplace. Between 1870 and 1970, white-collar office work became the leading form of employment for American women. As more and more women took office jobs, men and women workers attempted to make sense of this new environment where the workplace became a site of gendered power negotiations: Emotional and sexual desires entangled with "rational" operating procedures. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources including government investigation reports, scandal papers, memoirs, and advice literature, Julie Berebitsky describes how women perceived and responded to male desire and discrimination in the office. She also offers keen insight into how popular media -cartoons, advertisements, and a wide array of fictional accounts- represented wanted and unwelcome romantic and sexual advances in the workplace. Now in paperback for the first time, this compelling edition includes a foreword that brings Berebitsky's work into the present, where the Trump presidencies, MeToo movement, and global pandemic provide striking illustrations of the book's enduring relevance. An afterword reflects on Berebitsky's lasting impact as a feminist, teacher, and scholar in the fields of labor history and women's studies.

Brody, David / Xu, Yuwei / Emilsen, Kari et al. (eds.), Young Children's Perspectives on Teacher Gender: Contextualizing Gender Stereotypes and Inclusive Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care. (Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education) 272 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-1017>
ISBN 978-1-032-49926-0 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book draws on ethnographic studies in nine countries across six continents to examine children's perspectives on their male and female teachers. Contributors from China, Brazil, Australia, South Africa, Israel, Turkey, Norway, UK, and the USA present case studies based on early childhood education sites where both men and women work. Using the Mosaic approach, the book uses data collected through various methodologies, along with extensive observations and interviews with setting directors, teachers, and parents. The chapters highlight the children's perspectives on their caregivers and teachers within their socio-cultural contexts. The authors also consider macro-level cultural contexts to enhance the micro-picture from the children's evidence and demonstrate how children's perspectives are influenced by various ecologies and cultural contexts, with intersectionality such as tradition, race, and religion playing important roles. The book ends with a cross-country analysis and recommendations for gender-sensitive pedagogies that consider local cultural gender sensibilities. This groundbreaking book will appeal to scholars and researchers in early childhood education, gender and sexuality in education, and diversity and equity in education.

Chakraborty, Aishika / Dhawan, Nandita Banerjee (eds.), Gendered Bodies, Social Exclusions: Contemporary Issues in Women's Studies. (Contemporary Issues in Social Science Research) 348 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-1018>
ISBN 978-1-032-22881-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-23471-7 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book examines contemporary issues in women's studies and the agency of the marginalised and disenfranchised in the political, cultural, and social spheres. It uses feminist pedagogies to articulate multiple intersecting histories of class, caste, race, sexuality, disability and citizenship. Employing feminist perspectives, the book challenges the hegemonic and patriarchal logic of heteronormativity as it contextualizes verbal abuse, violence in the 'private' space, and tensions between women's and men's rights along the continuum between family, community, and state. The essays in this volume examine the (im)possibilities of a violence-free, caring and affordable living space on the one hand, and aim to comprehend the gendered experience of violence at the confluence of migration, cultural and sexual labour on the other. In addition to exploring the cultural taboos that restrict women's autonomy and rights, they strive to prioritise a range of voices by focusing on dancers in the entertainment industry, sexual and gender minorities, urban poor people living in slums, and disabled women. They also document and archive the academic agency of staff and students as they work to rectify the unjust conditions of higher education institutions. Part of the Contemporary Issues in Social Science Research series, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, women's studies, history, political science, sociology, social anthropology, development studies, law, media studies and South Asia studies.

Dobrow, Julie, Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinry Interracial Marriage. 4448 pp. 2025:11 (New York U. Pr., US) <748-1022>
ISBN 978-1-4798-3789-2 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Draycott, Jane, Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome. 296 pp. 2025:7 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-1023>
ISBN 978-0-300-27804-0 hard ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Dunn, Thomas R., The Pink Scar: How Nazi Persecution Shaped the Struggle for LGBTQ+ Rights. (Troubling Democracy) 216 pp. 2025:10 (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) <748-1024>
ISBN 978-0-271-10015-9 hard ¥20,787.- (税込) US$ 99.99
ISBN 978-0-271-10016-6 paper ¥5,195.- (税込) US$ 24.99

The Third Reich subjected some one hundred thousand individuals to a pernicious anti-homosexual campaign that included censorship, surveillance, medical experimentation, and death. Credible scholarship suggests that as many as fifteen thousand were interned in concentration camps, though the actual names and numbers of all those who suffered and died will never be known.Today, prevailing historical narratives hold that the persecution of homosexuals under Hitler was "discovered" in the 1970s by a post-Stonewall gay and lesbian community, who were the first to use these tragic events-emblematically symbolized by the pink triangle-to advance the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights around the world. The Pink Scar tells a different story. This book shows that Americans had ample opportunity to learn about this persecution before and during the war and explores how activists in the United States made Hitler's anti-homosexual campaign a central, animating force in their arguments at almost every major turning point in the lesbian and gay struggle since 1934.Victims of the Nazi regime were among the most important and the most contested symbols in the history of lesbian and gay rights rhetoric-perhaps even more contested than the pink triangle itself. This book shows us how, nearly one hundred years after Hitler came to power, remembering the people persecuted by the Nazi regime is once again essential for defending LGBTQ+ rights in a new age of growing fascism and anti-queer/trans oppression.

Ezell, Jason, For a Spell: Sissie Collectivism and Radical Witchery in the Southeast. (Gender and American Culture) 288 pp. 2025:10 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-1026>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9043-8 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9044-5 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In the Southeastern United States of the late 97 s, a regional network of radical communal gay households formed in the face of rising New Right terror. Comprised of primarily white, self-described sissies, the "Southeast Network," as it came to be known, spanned from the Ozarks, to New Orleans, to Appalachian Tennessee. Though this network was short-lived, its legacy lives on today through Short Mountain Sanctuary, a thriving member of the international network of Radical Faeries. Jason Ezell's intimate account of the formation and dissolution of these sissie houses reveals a little-known history of Southern gay liberation, nonbinary gender expression, and radical feminism and femininity.Drawing from journals, letters, oral histories, collective manifestos, and newsletters, Ezell illustrates how these gay households nurtured their community through lesbian feminist practices such as collectivism, consciousness-raising, witchcraft rituals, and rural gatherings. As people and practices traveled from one house to another, these linked houses attempted to conjure underground sanctuaries for queer southerners. Preserving their moving stories, Ezell details the visions, experiments, and shortfalls of these radical households in their attempts to build solidarity, resist mounting right-wing violence, and sustain their revolutionary dreams for queer movements yet to come.

Farrell, Amy Erdman, Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA. (A Ferris and Ferris Book) 320 pp. 2025:10 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-1027>
ISBN 978-1-4696-8683-7 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy days at school. But a few years later, Farrell found an escape from bullying, the promise of sisterhood, a rising sense of confidence, adventure, and-best of all-lifelong friendship when she joined a Girl Scout troop. Decades later, award-winning author Farrell returns to those formative experiences to explore the complicated and surprising history of the Girl Scouts of the USA.Drawing from extensive archival research, visits to iconic Girl Scout sites around the world, and vivid personal reflections, Farrell uncovers the Girl Scouts intricate history, revealing how the organization has shaped the lives of more than 5 million girls and women since its founding in 9 2. With Farrell as our own intrepid guide, we travel to American Indian Boarding Schools, Japanese American incarceration centers, segregated African American communities, middle-class white neighborhoods, and outposts throughout the globe. Intrepid Girls unpacks how the Girl Scouts navigated tensions over feminism, race, class, and political differences, carving out extraordinary opportunities for girls and women-even as it participated in the very discrimination it promised to transcend.For anyone who has ever worn a uniform or wondered about the hidden history behind this iconic American institution, Intrepid Girls will surprise, inspire, and challenge what we think we know about the Girl Scouts.

女主人－女性とそのカントリーハウスの歴史
Fletcher, Anthony / Larsen, Ruth M., Mistress: A History of Women and their Country Houses. 368 pp. 2025:8 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-1029>
ISBN 978-0-300-16381-0 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

An insightful, hugely engaging new history of elite women and the country house from the sixteenth to the twentieth century Grand houses can be found across the countryside of England and Wales. From the Stuart and Georgian periods to the Edwardian and Victorian, these buildings were once home to the aristocratic families of the nation. But what was life like for the mistresses of these great houses? How much power and influence did they really have? Anthony Fletcher and Ruth M. Larsen explore the lives of country house mistresses. Focusing on eighteen women, and spanning five centuries, they look at the ways in which elite women not only shaped the house, household, and family, but also had an impact on society, culture, and politics within their estates and beyond. We meet Brilliana Harley, who defended her castle at Brampton Bryan; Frances Boscawen, who oversaw the building of Hatchlands; and Lady Mary Elcho, who preserved her secret life as mistress to Arthur Balfour. This is a fascinating account of the country house that puts women's experiences centre stage.

Auerbach, Karen, The Nighttime Butterfly: A Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Warsaw at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. 272 pp. 2025:9 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-103>
ISBN 978-0-300-27083-9 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A dynamic history of life in turn-of-the-century Warsaw through the eyes of a young woman and her Jewish family who converted to Catholicism When Alicja Lewental's parents came of age in the middle of the nineteenth century, they believed they did not have to choose between two communities, one Polish and the other Jewish. But by the time Alicja was growing up in the 1890s, it seemed that for some Polish nationalists there was little Jews could do to be accepted unequivocally as Poles. As Alicja entered young womanhood and her father, a prominent publisher, became the target of polemics casting him as an outsider in Polish culture, her mother came to believe that only through her daughters' conversion to Catholicism and marriage to Catholic men could their family achieve acceptance in Polish society. The Lewentals' lives and their aspirations for belonging played out in Warsaw's homes, salons, and bookstores in a modernizing city. Drawing on Alicja Lewental's diary and other sources, historian Karen Auerbach provides a unique window onto how the Lewentals and their circle navigated a time of increasing ambivalence about the possibility for Jewish belonging to the Polish nation. As exclusionary notions of what it meant to be Polish gained traction in politics, Alicja and her family encountered these ideas in their private lives.

Gregory, Chase, As If!: Queer Criticism Across Difference. (Theory Q) 208 pp. 2025:8 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-1030>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2889-5 hard ¥21,610.- (税込) US$ 103.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3212-0 paper ¥5,394.- (税込) US$ 25.95

イタリア・ルネサンスにおける家族、職業、人文主義
McClure, George, Family, Vocation, and Humanism in the Italian Renaissance. 222 pp. 2026:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-1035>
ISBN 978-1-009-62927-0 hard ¥26,856.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

The first generations of Italian Humanists, which included Petrarch, Boccaccio, Giovanni Conversini, and Leon Battista Alberti, wrestled with the crisis of vocational choice amid struggles with their natal and conjugal families. Instead of following their fathers into conventional and reliably stable professions, they instead chose a literary and scholarly path not yet recognized as a viable profession. The inchoate nature of their careers, together with their propensity to write about themselves, created a unique setting for the emergence of modern notions of secular vocation. In this study, George McClure analyzes the rich residue of humanist writings - letters, autobiographies, dialogues, polemics, and fictional works - that defined the values of a literary life against the traditional models of monk, priest, physician, lawyer, or merchant. Collectively, they serve as the first substantive discourse on the moral and psychological meaning of work, which helped to lay the foundation for a general concept of secular vocation.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity. (John Hope Franklin Center Book) 264 pp. 2025:9 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-1037>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2895-6 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3222-9 paper ¥6,018.- (税込) US$ 28.95

古代ローマ及び中世文化における戦争とマスキュリニティ
Peltonen, Jaakkojuhani / Pyy, Elina / Rantala, Jussi (eds.), War and Masculinity in Roman and Medieval Culture. 248 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-1040>
ISBN 978-1-032-84099-4 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The chapters in this volume highlight the complexity and diversity of approaches to how ancient and medieval cultures understood martial masculinity and the significance warfare had on masculine values during the premodern era. They also point to how these ideals were manifested in numerous environments, covering topics from multiple points of view and using a variety of sources and methods.In the ancient and medieval periods, "manliness" was often understood as the ability to demonstrate bravery in war and eagerness to use violence in different situations. While certain marginal groups, such as philosophers and Christians, promoted more peaceful ideals of masculinity, war and masculinity were tightly connected to the cultures and societies of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Indeed, in Roman and later medieval culture, warfare played an essential role in constructing ideals of proper manliness and masculinity. This constructed masculinity manifested itself not only in written culture but also in everyday life, both visually and bodily.War and Masculinity in Roman and Medieval Culture is intended for those interested in ancient Roman and medieval culture, particularly researchers and students of gender and masculinity in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Peyrat, Morgan, Madame Infante a la cour de Parme: pouvoir feminin, relations familiales et ambitions dynastiques (1748-1760). (Histoire. L'univers de la cour) 294 p. 2025:3 (Pr. U. de Rennes, FR) <748-1041>
ISBN 978-2-7535-9777-8 paper ¥6,120.- (税込) EUR 26.00

性とジェンダー－生物心理学的アプローチ　第2版
Riggio, Heidi R., Sex and Gender: A Biopsychological Approach. 2nd ed. 448 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <748-1044>
ISBN 978-1-032-89113-2 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-89110-1 paper ¥16,958.- (税込) GB￡ 59.99

The second edition of this popular textbook provides a current and comprehensive understanding of sex and gender that incorporates biological, psychological and social approaches. Using both scientific and feminist approaches in its analysis, the book shows how sex and gender can only be properly understood when taking into account biopsychological approaches and the interactions between these processes.The first section discusses a biological analysis that includes evolutionary, cellular, and genetic processes. The second section considers a psychological and sociological analysis that discusses stereotypes, sexism, and theories of gender. The third section discusses current global challenges surrounding sex and gender, such as discrimination and religious and social oppression of various groups. The new edition has been thoroughly updated to include more discussion of gender identities such as nonbinary and gender fluid, as well as more coverages of global LGBTQ+ rights, more on global cultures and reproductive rights across the world.Sex and Gender is an invaluable textbook that considers biological, psychological, and social processes as separate entities and interacting processes. It is an essential resource for students and instructors on courses relating to sex and gender, the psychology of gender, gender studies, and women's studies who are looking for a thorough analysis of sex and gender studies.

Sanchez, Magdalena S., Infanta: The Short, Remarkable Life of Catalina Micaela. 512 pp. 2025:10 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-1050>
ISBN 978-0-300-28283-2 hard ¥8,316.- (税込) US$ 40.00

The first full biography of Catalina Micaela, infanta of Spain and duchess of Savoy Catalina Micaela was the younger daughter of Philip II and granddaughter of Catherine de Medici. Aged just seventeen, Catalina married Carlo I, duke of Savoy, and moved from the royal court in Madrid to Turin to begin a new life as a duchess. Overlooked by historians and little known today, Catalina was nonetheless a key figure in sixteenth-century Europe. A woman of intelligence, forceful personality, and strong feeling, she energetically and effectively governed her husband's dukedom during his long absences from Turin on military campaigns. In this widely researched account, Magdalena Sanchez traces Catalina's life from her childhood to her early death shortly after giving birth to her tenth child. Drawing on thousands of letters Catalina exchanged with her husband, Sanchez paints an intimate portrait of a young Spanish woman adapting to a new husband, a new land, and the demands of governance.

アメリカの女性史の形成　1900～2000年
Tomas, Jennifer Banning, Reclaiming Clio: Making American Women's History, 1900-2000. 496 pp. 2025:12 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-1052>
ISBN 978-1-4696-8600-4 hard ¥24,948.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-8601-1 paper ¥9,344.- (税込) US$ 44.95

Women's history traveled a long and fascinating path before it became a respected and recognized academic field in twentieth-century America. This book explores the field's development as a multiracial and multigenerational effort, going beyond the careers of individual women historians to focus on how the discipline itself took shape. Focusing on the crucial period between 1900 and 1968, Jennifer Banning Tomas shines a light on the work performed by archivists and professional historians that gave women's history its own identity and legitimacy. The women in Reclaiming Clio laid the groundwork for the field's remarkable expansion during the final wave of twentieth-century feminism after 1970, when a genuine movement for women's history emerged. Their contributions made the later success of women's history possible. Tomas reveals the dedication and vision that turned women's history into the thriving, influential field it is today.

Tyburczy, Jennifer, Queer Traffic: Sex, Panic, Free Trade. (Dissident Acts) 296 pp. 2025:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-1053>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2896-3 hard ¥25,987.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-1-4780-3223-6 paper ¥7,068.- (税込) US$ 34.00

Vargherse, Ricky, Little Deaths: Sex and Psychoanalysis in the Age of Pandemics. (The Exquisite Corpse Territory: United States) 272 pp. 2025:11 (U. Regina Pr., CN) <748-1054>
ISBN 978-1-77940-092-5 hard ¥6,849.- (税込) US$ 32.95

Vega, Yolanda, Disbanding the Patriarchy: Sex, Policy and Power. 310 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-1055>
ISBN 978-1-032-85040-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-85039-9 paper ¥10,173.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Disbanding the Patriarchy: Sex Policy & Power presents evidence from Australia, Europe, India, the UK, and the USA, revealing the calculated efforts to impede progress, dictated by oligarchs, the media, religious dogmas, and androcentric leaders. Patriarchal forces are deliberately accelerating the regression of equality. The decline of democracy and human rights threaten health services, political frameworks, financial stability, and education systems. Celebrating the remarkable triumphs of activists, feminists, and advocates, their strength, courage, and perseverance exemplifies how united successes are possible. The four feminist waves, along with the current tsunami, are recognised as powerful demonstrations of collective voices disrupting corruption and exposing the reality that wealth does not equate to intelligence or capacity. Incorporating academic research, personal experiences, and a practical toolkit in every chapter, this book presents a comprehensive assessment of both contemporary and prescriptive norms that suppress autonomy, marginalise the majority, and distort reality. Readers will gain a critical, evidence-based understanding of the barriers to equality, alongside practical strategies to disband phallocentric principles and influence the implementation of sustainable, meaningful social reforms. Proportionate representation, reinforced by inclusive leadership, has been proven to deliver financial prosperity, effective governance, and social advancement, presenting a compelling case for disbanding unacceptable power structures in the pursuit of a fairer and more balanced world. For those who wear one or many hats - feminists, policymakers, educators, caregivers, researchers, advocates, activists, journalists, students, academics, lawyers, jurists, healthcare professionals, executives, entrepreneurs, artists, NGOs, and politicians - note the United Nations calculates that achieving legal parity could take another 286 years at the current rate. This alarming reality serves as a call to action, reminding the reader that transformative positive developments are within reach. Neutralising regression demands deliberate, sustained, and collective efforts to transform suppression into equal justice - one decisive action at a time.

Vigurs, Kate, Mission Europe: The Secret History of the Women of SOE. 368 pp. 2025:5 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-1056>
ISBN 978-0-300-27269-7 hard ¥6,756.- (税込) US$ 32.50 *

The remarkable history of the women who worked for Special Operations Executive across occupied Europe In the wake of the Nazi invasion of Europe, the tentative sparks of resistance in occupied countries were fanned by Britain's Special Operations Executive. Across the continent, SOE recruited women to "set Europe ablaze." Working as secret agents and saboteurs, these individuals bolstered resistance from within and provided much needed support and weapons. F Section's actions in France are renowned, and today some operatives have become household names. But what happened to the women who worked outside France and those who were locally recruited? In this gripping account, Kate Vigurs tells the stories of the lesser-known women who worked across Europe, from the Netherlands to Belgium and Poland to Denmark. She explores too the lives of Jewish agents recruited in Mandate Palestine for missions in Eastern Europe. These are stories of trial and error, escape and even execution. Mission Europe examines why women were recruited, analysing their successes and contributions-and celebrates the ordinary women who did extraordinary things.