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

Keddie, Amanda / Flood, Michael, Young Men's Online Lives: Cultivating Critical Digital Dispositions for Gender Justice. 132 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-997>
ISBN 978-3-031-99979-6 hard ¥9,896.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This Palgrave Pivot offers insight into the factors that influence, motivate and inform young men's online experiences. In Australia and globally recent media and public discourse has expressed strong concerns about the gender-based harms arising from young men's online behaviours - these concerns have prompted renewed scrutiny on boys and masculinity and produced a sense of urgency around addressing these online harms. They have provided a strong warrant for research that seeks to better understand how young men are navigating their online worlds. This book presents findings from a qualitative study of 117 young men in Australia. In foregrounding a diversity of young men's voices, the book responds to calls for more nuance and care in how we debate the gendered impact of social media on young men's lives. As such we highlight the tensions and complexities in how young men navigate negative and positive online experiences including their critical engagement with harmful content. Against this backdrop, the book presents a case for fostering young men's critical digital dispositions towards more gender just engagements online. It provides a conceptual framework and series of activities for fostering these dispositions. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in critical masculinity studies, sociology, psychology, public health, and media and internet studies, as well as practitioners who work with young men.

Malesevic, Gordana (ed.), Challenges for Chinese Women in The Early Twenty-first Century. 390 pp. 2025:11 (World Scientific, SI) <754-758>
ISBN 978-981-9814-93-0 hard ¥29,297.- (税込) US$ 138.00

This anthology explores the causes and consequences of persistent gender-based inequalities in contemporary China. Through 13 chapters, it examines how gender inequality is shaped, reinforced, questioned and worked around in early 21st century China. This book covers areas such as the welfare system, labour market, land rights and divorce - areas in which equality between men and women is still inadequate in law and practice. The book also offers insight in less-explored areas such as the legal and bureaucratic rights of diverse families, migration and split households, grassroots labour organising and self-determination and equality in the pursuit of Chinese socialist feminism. The introduction highlights the enduring role of the household registration system (hukou) as a tool to exercise power, control and coercion. Since the hukou system is based on households rather than individuals, it remains a powerful source of institutionalised reproduction of hierarchical power relations (i.e. patriarchal values). While focused on contemporary China, the introduction also situates gender inequality within a global context, showing how gender inequality is shaped and reinforced globally in the early 21st century.

Kuhar, Roman / Zaharijevic, Adriana (eds.), Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space. (Global Queer Politics) 190 pp. 2025:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-662>
ISBN 978-3-031-92412-5 hard ¥29,696.- (税込) EUR 119.99

The book sheds light on the diverse forms of anti-gender mobilization in the post-Yugoslav space by exploring its historical trajectories, cultural variances, and different religious frames. It offers a meticulous comparative analysis of seven post-socialist countries that shared a common history, which collapsed through wars and through their different paths to "Europeanisation." Gender scholars and activists have never ceased to build and rebuild ties across the new borders, fighting for freedom of speech, human rights and against their local nationalisms. Today, however, it is precisely the ultraconservative forces that speak the same language of rights but with diametrically opposing illiberal goals. The fiercest opponents in all other respects, the post-Yugoslav ultraconservatives agree that the major threat lies in the specter of "gender." This volume tells a story about gender as a post-Yugoslav "symbolic glue." This volume advances knowledge in the area of anti-gender mobilizations and offers helpful insights for academics, researchers, and policymakers alike.

Ingram, Caroline, Women on Trial: Criminal Trials in Colonial Western Australia. (Palgrave Histories of Policing, Punishment and Justice) 220 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-548>
ISBN 978-3-031-98071-8 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book considers how legal rules and institutions affected the outcome of women's trials in nineteenth century Western Australia and how this was mediated by various social and cultural constructs. It uses numerous case studies to determine the effect of legal representation, co-accused status, Aboriginality and mercy on the outcome of these women's trials. The stories of these mainly working-class women, often traced through trials records and witness depositions, also illuminates the challenges and pitfalls of their lives, the survival strategies they used to navigate these and the pathways that led them to be charged with serious crime. Western Australia offers a different set of conditions for examining female criminality. Its small population meant that women committing crime often became well-known identities within their communities and may have been known, at least by reputation, to the limited number of men eligible for jury duty. Western Australia's low population meant that the number of lawyers practising in the colony was small and that few judges were appointed. During this period Western Australia also created separate laws to apply only to Aboriginal defendants meaning that Aboriginal women became subject to different laws to non-Aboriginal women. The book examines how, and why, some women appeared to receive a more lenient outcome, whereas others were less fortunate. Despite the all-male nature of the criminal justice system in which they appeared, some women appeared to possess a degree of legal literacy which allowed them to use the system to achieve a more favourable outcome in court. This book will be of interest to scholars of criminology, as well as those interested in the history of crime, Western Australian history and the history of the criminal justice system in Australia.

Kukla, Quill R., Sex Beyond "Yes": Pleasure and Agency for Everyone. (A Norton Short) 176 pp. 2025:9 (Norton, US) <754-45>
ISBN 978-1-324-06492-3 hard ¥5,095.- (税込) US$ 24.00

Today's conversations about sex often focus on consent-who has given it, when one has it and how to get it. However, good, fulfilling sex requires more than securing a "yes" from a partner. It requires a variety of kinds of communication, as well as social circumstances that support sexual agency and pleasure. In Sex Beyond "Yes", Quill R. Kukla explores what sexual agency is and how it can be enabled or hindered. Kukla reimagines pleasurable, ethical sex beyond the constraints of commodification, patriarchal and heterocentric social scripts, ableism, and puritanical and stigmatising attitudes toward sex. This book addresses the complexities of desire and the importance of creating an environment that prioritises respect, communication and joy. Centring pleasure and agency, it encourages conversations and social changes that can make good sex accessible to all.

Johnson, Rebecca / McKenzie, Debra / Napoleon, Val et al., Ravens Talking: Indigenous Feminist Legal Studies. 277 pp. 2025:12 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <754-478>
ISBN 978-1-4875-5142-1 hard ¥20,168.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-5147-6 paper ¥7,844.- (税込) US$ 36.95

While awareness of the sexual and gendered colonial violence faced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people has grown, the field of Indigenous law and beyond has yet to fully engage with Indigenous feminisms, gender, and sexuality in a sustained way. Ravens Talking challenges this gap, treating Indigenous feminisms as essential, insightful, and deeply transformative. Through critical feminist analyses, this book examines key issues in Indigenous law, demonstrating how legal understandings shift when gender is consistently, meaningfully, and creatively engaged. The contributors to this collection confront the forms of power shaping these essential conversations and bring to the fore intergenerational Indigenous feminisms; Indigenous law and gender; the forms of expression and translation between and across legal and political worlds; and the rich array of disagreements and conflicts between Indigenous women. Ravens Talking intends to capture the complexities arising from Indigenous feminisms in living contexts to provoke questions and develop critical perspectives. Both intellectually rigorous and practically grounded, Ravens Talking is a vital contribution encouraging dialogue on Indigenous legal traditions, justice, and sovereignty.

Powell, Alex, Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration. (Law, Society, Policy) 224 pp. 2025:11 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <754-480>
ISBN 978-1-5292-4257-7 hard ¥23,144.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

In the context of a global backlash against both migrant and LGBTIQA+ rights , this book critically examines the experiences of LGBTIQA+ people within the UK asylum system. The book draws on interviews with refugees, legal practitioners and charity workers to analyse the systemic challenges faced by LGBTIQA+ people seeking asylum. By blending empirical data and critical theory, the text highlights the contradictions between the UK's purportedly LGBTIQA+ inclusive narratives and its treatment of sexually diverse refugees, offering insights for researchers, practitioners and policy makers on the pressures facing LGBTIQA+ people within the asylum system.

女性、権力、自律－法と社会における権利、敬意、表現
Scutt, Jocelynne A. (ed.), Women, Power and Autonomy: Rights, Respect and Representation in Law and Society. 392 pp. 2025:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-481>
ISBN 978-3-031-97957-6 hard ¥44,546.- (税込) EUR 179.99

This book explores women's rights from an international perspective. The authors discuss abortion, surrogacy, prostitution, marriage and family law, touching on themes including children, property, forced and arranged marriage and under-age marriage, separation, divorce and widowhood. They also analyse commerce and financial rights, as well as employment rights and women in the corporate sector. Throughout the book these topics raise questions of respect, from the perspective of violence against women, provision of resources and services, and women in the criminal justice system under bail and imprisonment. This book also addresses the representation of women in media and politics, including in film and literature. Overall, the authors explore the intersection of rights, respect and representation, and their roles in women's status in society as well as in law.

黒人女性と人権の形成
Blain, Keisha N., Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights. 312 pp. 2025:9 (Norton, US) <754-511>
ISBN 978-0-393-88229-2 hard ¥6,791.- (税込) US$ 31.99

Even before they were recognized as citizens of the United States, Black women understood that the fights for civil and human rights were inseparable. Over the course of two hundred years, they were at the forefront of national and international movements for social change, weaving connections between their own and others' freedom struggles around the world. Without Fear tells how, during American history, Black women made humans rights theirs: from worldwide travel and public advocacy in the global Black press to their work for the United Nations, they courageously and effectively moved human rights beyond an esoteric concept to an active, organizing principle. Acclaimed historian Keisha N. Blain tells the story of these women-from the well-known, like Ida B. Wells, Madam C. J. Walker, and Lena Horne, to those who are still less known, including Pearl Sherrod, Aretha McKinley, and Marguerite Cartwright. Blain captures human rights thinking and activism from the ground up with Black women at the center, working outside the traditional halls of power. By shouldering intersecting forms of oppression-including racism, sexism, and classism-Black women have long been in a unique position to fight for freedom and dignity. Without Fear is an account of their aspirations, strategies, and struggles to pioneer a human rights approach to combating systems of injustice.

Klostermann, Janna, At the Limits of Care: Gendered Work and Stories That Matter. 277 pp. 2025:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <754-258>
ISBN 978-1-4875-6394-3 hard ¥15,922.- (税込) US$ 75.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-6395-0 paper ¥5,296.- (税込) US$ 24.95

For author Janna Klostermann, reaching her limits and resigning from care work felt like a crisis of self. In the aftermath of this upheaval, this is the book she needed to write. At the Limits of Care is a book that will change how you think about care work and about the women who provide it. Now an assistant professor in sociology and a radical care scholar, Klostermann interrogates women's counter-stories of reaching their limits, crossing ethical lines, and stepping back from paid or unpaid care work roles. She weaves feminist sociological analyses with memoir to challenge dominant narratives around women and care, transforming the ways we think about ourselves and our relationships. The book makes a major contribution in how and what constitutes care research. Drawing on in-depth life history interviews with women ages twenty-seven to seventy-eight in Ontario, Canada, Klostermann enacts a "counter politics of care" approach that centres untold and lesser-told stories of care work. She pushes readers to rethink gendered power dynamics, question prevailing tropes of care, and imagine more equitable, emancipatory futures.

Reynolds, Paul / Simpson, Paul et al. (eds.), Resexualising Later Life: Performances of Older Sexual Citizenship. (Sex and Intimacy in Later Life) 220 pp. 2025:9 (Policy Pr., UK) <754-315>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6619-5 hard ¥23,144.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

Building on the work of the previous volumes in the Sex and Intimacy in Later Life series, this book explores how resexualisation may take place in later life. Drawing on transdisciplinary and international content, it provides a theoretically and experientially informed overview and discussion of resexualisation, highlighting important areas of research in a nascent area of study. This volume covers a range of sexual identities and ageing populations, blending cultural representations and current research to highlight the possible forms and practices that can lead to the creative enabling of pleasure.

Burnett, Scott / Vigo, Francesca (eds.), Battlefield Linguistics: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Interventions in Linguistic and Discursive Change. (Critical Approaches in Applied Linguistics 9) 450 S. 2025:12 (de Gruyter Mouton, GW) <754-1099>
ISBN 978-3-11-135141-4 hard ¥29,686.- (税込) EUR 119.95

This volume addresses the politicization of linguistic features indexing sexual and gender non-normativity at the phonological, morphological, and discursive levels. In the context of masculinist, heteronormative, and transphobic backlash around the world, these groundbreaking studies adopt queer, trans, and feminist linguistic perspectives to examine how normativity is resisted and identity is stylized, negotiated, and reproduced in everyday text and talk. Part 1 focuses on self-determination/identification through phonetic and other resources. Part 2 focuses on debates over language reform and change. Part 3 examines the contestation of gender ideology using critical linguistic analytical tools.

Carpenter, Jenna (ed.), Women in Academia. (Women in Engineering and Science) 267 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <754-1100>
ISBN 978-3-031-97937-8 hard ¥19,796.- (税込) EUR 79.99

This book provides an overview of the history and contributions of academic women in engineering and computer science, both within their own institutions, as well as at the national level, together with the current status of these women's accomplishments and both the challenges and opportunities for the future. The book first covers the history of women in engineering and computer science, including key shifts that opened the door for women students to these fields. It then looks at the role of professional organizations and affinity groups in helping advance women academic leaders in engineering and computer science. The contributors also discuss the history and perspectives of women in engineering and computer science who have served in institutional and national leadership roles. As an important part of the Women in Engineering and Science book series, the work highlights the contribution of women leaders in academia, inspiring women and men, girls and boys to enter and apply themselves to secure our future in engineering and computer science.

Delamotte, Marie-Christine, L'histoire oubliee de la violence feminine dans la Bretagne du XVIIIe siecle. (Aux sources de l'Histoire) 302 p. 2025:7 (les Perseides, FR) <754-1101>
ISBN 978-2-37125-084-0 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) EUR 19.90

Hrynyk, Nicholas A., Liberation and Libido: Masculinity, Sexuality, and the Aesthetics of Gay Liberation in Canada, 1971-1987. 277 pp. 2026:1 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <754-1102>
ISBN 978-1-4875-0707-7 hard ¥18,045.- (税込) US$ 85.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-2477-7 paper ¥6,994.- (税込) US$ 32.95

Liberation and Libido delves into the vibrant, messy, and deeply political history of gay liberation in Canada, exploring how The Body Politic (TBP) shaped and challenged ideas of gay male masculinity - and gender more broadly - between 1971 and 1987. As one of Canada's largest lesbian and gay activist periodicals, TBP was a lively forum where people debated, defended, and dismantled notions of gender. It also shed light on the divergent representations of masculinity - some reinforcing queer patriarchal ideas of whiteness, race, health, disability, and class, while others challenged and pushed back against the status quo. Through an in-depth exploration into TBP's images, advertisements, letters, classified ads, and editorial content, Hrynyk unravels how shifting attitudes on masculinity, race, class, ability, and health played out on its pages. Two guiding frameworks underpin this analysis: queer patriarchy, which highlights the dominance of whiteness and masculinity within gay male spaces, and queer style, which captures the playful, rebellious manner in which queer culture appropriated and rejected mainstream gender and sexual norms. This book presents TBP not simply as an activist newspaper but rather as a battleground where masculinity was contested, reshaped, and reimagined. From radical manifestos to steamy personal ads, every page of TBP reflected the push-and-pull between liberation and assimilation, activism and commerce. Liberation and Libido invites readers to reevaluate our understanding of masculinity, power, and desire in the context of queer resistance in Canadian history.

Hajkova, Anna, People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust. 200 pp. 2025:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <754-1103>
ISBN 978-1-4875-5710-2 hard ¥18,045.- (税込) US$ 85.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-5711-9 paper ¥5,296.- (税込) US$ 24.95

Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. People Without History Are Dust challenges this silence, weaving together compelling stories of German, Dutch, Czech, and Polish Jewish Holocaust victims and survivors - including Anne Frank, Molly Applebaum, Margot Heuman, and Gad Beck - whose experiences help illuminate the hidden history of queerness in a time of genocide. Drawing on extensive archival research, this groundbreaking book uncovers the lives of those who were doubly marginalized, not only persecuted as Jews but also as queer individuals. In doing so, it confronts the ways in which history has excluded or minimized their experiences, urging us to question normative accounts of the Holocaust. By shedding light on these long-overlooked stories, People Without History Are Dust deepens our understanding of identity, survival, and memory, reminding us why an inclusive and complex approach to history is essential - not just for the sake of the past, but in service to the present and the future as well.

Payne, Laura A. (ed.), Psychosocial Interventions for Chronic Pain in Women and Girls. (CBT: Science Into Practice) 204 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <754-1114>
ISBN 978-3-031-98875-2 hard ¥39,596.- (税込) EUR 159.99

Ruspini, Elisabetta / Vidu, Ana (eds.), Generations of Feminism and Gender Studies in Europe. (Generations, Transitions and Social Change) 192 pp. 2026:1 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <754-1117>
ISBN 978-1-5292-4342-0 hard ¥23,144.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

How did feminism shape the rise of gender studies in Europe? Using a generational lens, this book offers fresh insights and perspectives on the ongoing development and establishment of gender studies in Europe. With contributions from pioneering women scholars who built and sustained the European Sociological Association's Research Network 33, it provides an unprecedented history of how feminism and women's studies was the catalyst for a gender turn in academic thought. Highlighting the interdisciplinary innovations feminism brought to the field, this is a vital exploration of the lasting impact of generations of scholars on European and global gender studies.

危機の時代のジェンダーと高等教育管理
Wroblewski, Angela / Barnard, Sarah (eds.), Gender and Higher Education Management in Times of Crisis. (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education) 330 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-1121>
ISBN 978-3-031-98940-7 hard ¥42,071.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This edited book explores the role of higher education management during crises and analyses the responses and gendered consequences for women in particular. Contributions adopt multidimensional, multilevel and intersectional approaches to gender inequalities to better understand power relations as expressed through institutional and cultural change processes. The chapters explore the ways in which crises play out and the extent to which they undermine, ratify or reconfigure gender relations in higher education. Contributing authors from different geographical locations also reflect on how higher education management conceives of gender when responding to crisis, as well as the consequences of a binary approach and related essentialism. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of higher education, gender studies and organisation and management studies, and higher education leadership and policy makers.

Parsley, Samantha, Minor Keys: Gender, Inequality and Work in Electronic Music. 192 pp. 2025:10 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <754-1023>
ISBN 978-1-5292-4041-2 hard ¥23,144.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-5292-4042-9 paper ¥4,336.- (税込) GB￡ 14.99

What's it like to work in the male-dominated world of electronic music? How do women and gender-expansive music producers and DJs thrive despite clubland's so-called 'bro culture'? This book combines the author's personal journey into DJing and music production with insights from a six-year immersive research project and interviews with 63 global artists to explore the challenges women and gender-expansive artists face in the industry. The book tackles common myths around gender, technology and cultural production head on, introducing the concept of 'ameliorative work' to recognise the continual and considerable additional work that minoritized genders do in order to succeed. Engaging, accessible and thought-provoking, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in electronic music, the sociology of the contemporary club scene or diversity issues for workers in the creative industries.

Paulovich, Natallia, The Taste of Agency: Cooking, Gender, and Social Change in Georgia. 262 pp. 2025:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-1024>
ISBN 978-3-031-97813-5 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores the evolving role of women in Georgian society through the lens of food and cooking. Drawing on ethnographic research in Ozurgeti, it reveals how domestic practices serve as powerful expressions of female agency. From the 19th century to the post-Soviet era, Georgian women have used food to navigate socio-economic crises, reshape family structures, and preserve cultural identity. The book combines feminist anthropology and food studies to challenge assumptions about women's roles in traditional societies. By focusing on everyday acts of sustenance, it offers a nuanced view of how women actively shape both private and public life. A vital contribution to gender studies, anthropology, and post-Soviet research, this book enhances our understanding of food as a site of social change.

Thomas, Paul Lee, II, Black Widow Underestimated and Hypersexualized: "I Am What I Am". (Critical Media Literacies Series 11) 168 pp. 2025:6 (Brill, NE) <754-1031>
ISBN 978-90-04-73455-5 hard ¥16,830.- (税込) EUR 68.00

Superhero Black Widow/ Natasha Romanov has endured more than 60 years in the Marvel Universe before becoming a prominent character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the Avengers; however, this volume examines how this woman character has mostly been underestimated and hypersexualized. The overview and analysis explore the contradiction between Black Widow's enduring popularity and the limited commitment to her solo series and character development in print. This discussion centers Black Widow as a representation of the inadequate care and commitment given to women characters in mainstream superhero comics.

Viljoen, Jeanne-Marie, Comics and Women's Mental Health: Five Stories. (Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels) 142 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-1032>
ISBN 978-3-031-98264-4 hard ¥9,896.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book discusses five recent, hand-drawn, comics memoirs of women's mental health experiences, not easily captured in words alone. It deals with a range of mental health experiences that are not simply diagnoseable mental disorders, and do not always stem from visible physical conditions (heavy feelings, loneliness, postpartum depression, grief, schizophrenia and suicide). Yet, by also considering the formal qualities of these stories, it is able to focus on embodied aspects of experience, inflecting these with perspectives from a range of women of various ages, sexualities, genders, races and cultures. This book demonstrates how comics are an effective, interdisciplinary means of communicating women's mental health and wellbeing.

世界を報道するBBCの女性たち
Murrell, Colleen, BBC Women Reporting the World: Conversations with Foreign Correspondents. 237 pp. 2025:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-1044>
ISBN 978-3-031-85197-1 paper ¥6,184.- (税込) EUR 24.99

This book explores the changing experiences and roles of the BBC's female journalists. Featuring original interview content, the book focuses on the careers of female foreign correspondents, from Kate Adie to Shaimaa Khalil. It begins by examining the power structures and gender-based assumptions widespread in the BBC from its inception through to the 1970s and 1980s, when international reporting opportunities first opened up for women, and then charts the changes that took place between the 1980s to the 2020s, including the recent controversy surrounding pay inequality. Featuring insights and anecdotes from the women themselves, it will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in the BBC, news journalism and gender, while also informing evolving academic debates around public service broadcasting, international news flows, media practice and issues of gender, race, class and power in the media industry.