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Alison M. Downham Moore, The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women’s Ageing: A History – Oxford University Press, October 2022, now available open access Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the … Continue reading →

In the final years of his life, Michel Foucault often used the Bibliothèque du Saulchoir, a small Dominican library in Paris, for his work. I’ve never had a reason to visit before, but today I spent the morning there, looking … Continue reading →

Georg Löfflmann, The Politics of Antagonism: Populist Security Narratives and the Remaking of Political Identity – Routledge, March 2024 Very expensive hardback and e-book only at this time. This book demonstrates how populist security narratives served as the driving force behind … Continue reading →

Rok Benčin, Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity – Edinburgh University Press, print and open access, January 2024

Domenico Losurdo, Democracy or Bonapartism: Two Centuries of War on Democracy – trans. David Broder, Verso, April 2024 The history of universal suffrage is best understood as a conflict between liberal elites and democractic workers’ movements, according to Domenico Losurdo. … Continue reading →

Kathryn Yusoff, Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race – Duke University Press, May 2024 The Introduction is open access In Geologic Life, Kathryn Yusoff theorizes the processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Examining both the history … Continue reading →

Henri Bergson, Freedom: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1904–1905 – edited by Nils F. Schott and Alexandre Lefebvre, translated by Leonard Lawlor, Bloomsbury, May 2024

Jonas Roelens, Citizens and Sodomites: Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400–1700) – Brill, February 2024 The Southern Low Countries were among Europe’s core regions for the repression of sodomy during the late medieval period. As the … Continue reading →