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Unsettled Listening
Authors: Jordan Randolph 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This chapter considers how film sound can become an essential part of soundscape research conducted by acoustic ecology, and how folding the discourse of film sound theory back onto acoustic ecology can correct for a variety of gaps in the field’s foundational texts. The chapter focuses on media produced in the city of Vancouver, birthplace of acoustic ecology and longest running case study of the World Soundscape Project, as an example of how the sonic environment of a specific geographical locale can be researched through film and audiovisual media. The author uses the sound of trains as represented in Vancouver-based films as the foundation for addressing how sound is tied to geographical specificity in local media: given that the sounds of trains have become a defining characteristic of the city, we can say that the entire city becomes the acoustic profile across which these sounds can be heard. The work of acoustic profiling in this chapter engages with the emerging practice of unsettled listening, whereby listener positionality is taken into account when trying to understand the relationship between sound and culture within a given acoustic profile. This analysis demonstrates why film sound design should be an important area of consideration for soundscape research.
Travellers’ Tales
Authors: Datta Arunima 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Travellers’ tales, from Marco Polo onwards, were a genre of literature through which European elites learned to relate to ‘exotic others’ in a world which they were setting out to colonize. In the imperial world, however, it was not only European elites who undertook daring voyages, faced daunting challenges, and encountered ‘exotic others’. The tales told in this chapter were not written down by their protagonists for posterity but have been unearthed from the archives long after their heroes had passed from this earth. Travelling ayahs negotiated waiting in a myriad number of spaces and conditions. Previous chapters focused on their experiences within the British Empire in times of peace, in which their presence was accepted as normal, structures existed to support them even if these structures were often inadequate, and most had enough command of English to negotiate their needs. This chapter considers travelling ayahs in more ‘exotic’ spaces—European countries outside Britain (whose cases were ultimately routed through Britain)—and more dangerous times resulting from world wars.
Conclusion
Authors: Datta Arunima 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This chapter sums up the arguments developed in the preceding chapters, presents answers to the questions regarding waiting posed in the introduction, and discusses the implications of these answers for the study of migrants. Emphasizing the travelling ayahs’ self-determination, survival strategies, and active engagement with the process of waiting, the chapter draws attention to the insights available to us from studying the travelling ayahs’ relationship with the Empire and their upper-class employers and shows how these insights are relevant to historicizing the present-day experiences of migrant domestic and care workers. It also brings the lives of travelling ayahs into a larger framework, noting that women’s transnational labour has been neglected within the histories of Britain, South Asia, and the British Empire, an absence which this book seeks to go some way to fill.
La Nouvelle Vague
Authors: Han Irene 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Chapter 2 focuses on the utopian paradigm that we find in the Republic, the “Beauty City” (kallipolis). The chapter provides a close reading of Republic Book V, specifically, where Plato has Socrates enter into the feminine or “womanly drama” (Pl. Resp. 451c) of the performance and advances controversial arguments in three waves, for granting the same education for guardian men and women and the incorporation of philosopher-queens into the ideal city. The chapter re-evaluates “Plato’s feminism”: though the arguments for women as agents in the political theory are tenuous, for the author hardly believes that Plato is a feminist, it illuminates the feminine as an abstract force in his thought.
Introduction: The Culture of Unequal Work
Authors: Fu Huiyan 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The introductory chapter first highlights the significance of the book amidst emerging trends and developments that shape precarious work and associated social inequalities. The rest of the chapter is organized into four sections, which are centred on a set of interrelated research questions. The first section lays out theoretical underpinnings that focus on culture’s relationship with institutions and its analytical importance in unpacking precarious work. The second section turns to a comparative examination of major themes arising from the research questions. This is followed by a summary of the book’s structure and chapters in the third section. The final concluding section addresses broad implications with the aim of informing policy, practice, and future research.
Gender, Precarious Labour, and Neoliberalism in Japan
Authors: Shibata Saori 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Prior to the 1990s, social compromise and job security typically characterized Japan’s employment relations, although they were marked by distinctive gendered and unequal patterns. From the 1990s onwards, there has been a gradual growth of neoliberalism and increased use of flexible non-regular workers, which has deepened inequality and insecurity, particularly for female workers. By tracing the historical development, this chapter demonstrates how a lack of willingness to achieve gender equality and persistent bias against women continue to dominate Japan’s political and economic domain. In so doing, the chapter highlights obstacles to Japanese labour market reforms, which have a profound impact on women in the long term.
Teleworking in Pandemic Japan
Authors: Osawa Machiko , Kingston Jeff 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Teleworking or remote working was not a panacea during the 2020–2021 pandemic, despite a significant increase in the overall rate of telework (including hybrid arrangements) from 13.3 per cent of workers in 2016 to 27.3 per cent in 2021. This doubling of the national rate was exceeded in Tokyo firms where teleworking surged from 16.9 per cent of employees in 2016 to 42.1 percent by 2021. This chapter explains how remote working has amplified existing disparities by gender, work status, and firm size, and represents a thus far missed opportunity in promoting work–life balance. Large firms have been much more successful at ramping up teleworking capacity than small and medium-sized enterprises, many non-regular workers have been excluded, and it is not suitable in jobs where physical presence is necessary. These disparities have further disadvantaged women workers and made it difficult for them to reap the fruits of flexibility inherent to teleworking.
Making Sense of Inequalities at Work
Authors: Kojima Shinji 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This chapter examines how neoliberal employment institutions and gendered cultural norms combine to shape the ways in which female non-regular workers negotiate the meanings of precarious work in their everyday lives. Based on in-depth interview data, the chapter employs the concept ‘disaffected consent’ as a way of grasping the ongoing struggle to find a point of compromise between strong feelings of dissatisfaction on the one hand, and self-doubt in the legitimacy of demanding better treatment on the other. The findings from this study suggest that policies to redress inequality in treatment should not assume voicing workers. Instead, policy makers may consider instituting a stronger enforcement regime, including systematic policing to detect noncomplying employers combined with larger fines for non-compliance.
Patch Works
Authors: Elkins Amy E. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
This interchapter, written somewhat in the style of a patchwork quilt, begins with a consideration of raw materials—their gathering, melting together, and giving them shape—in the history of alchemy. Zadie Smith’s writing at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic calls upon the temporal organization of crafted feminist responses such as scraps of metal, fabric, or paper. How might the pieces of a year—still in progress—comment on themselves as material remnants of something, collected but not yet fully assembled? And how might we imagine archival practices as collaborations? In readings of Mina Loy, Chet’la Sebree, Lucille Clifton, Layli Long Soldier, Thom Gunn, and others, this interchapter embraces thinking associatively about intellectual work. Assemblage, collage, and quilting circulate as ways of both teaching and theorizing the placements and ruptures of feminist writing.
Digital Turns
Authors: Elkins Amy E. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Where do traditional crafts and digital forms intersect? How might adaptation and assemblage be forms of handiwork? This interchapter studies the work of Kabe Wilson, a multimedia artist who rearranged Virginia Woolf’s 1929 long essay on women’s rights and creativity, A Room of One’s Own, into the anagrammatical work Of One Woman or So by Olivia N’Gowfri. The author compares Wilson’s transmedia adaptations of Woolf to the multiple levels of methodology involved in studying craft. Extending craft studies to the postdigital present through processes such as 3-D scanning, this interchapter theorizes tactility and artistic encounters between media and across time.
Common Threads
Authors: Elkins Amy E. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The final interchapter culminates in a practice-based discussion of the archive as a feminist argument about craft and community—foregrounding the chaos and urgency of connection. Even when working in solitude, there is a communal dimension to the history of craft practices that brings people together and reveals collectives (bonds, recognition, solidarity) in places readers might not expect, as writers respond to craft’s capacity for disorientation and empowerment. How might fragments, glitches, and other traces of transmedia craft processes reveal important sites of queer vulnerability? The interchapter concludes the book with a reading of craft’s associative and serendipitous capacity to network historical and activist contexts.
A Protean Moral? Aristotelian Metamorphoses in the Figures of Icarus, Daedalus, and Phaethon
Authors: Rabone Richard 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThis chapter analyses the myths of Icarus and Phaethon, arguing that their ability to illustrate different facets of Aristotle’s mean underpins their remarkable popularity in literature. It uses emblems, mythography, and Renaissance commentaries to construct an interpretative framework for moralizing references to these tales, covering: their use to evoke either the general triadic model of virtue or the specific vice of temerity; their association specifically with a modified understanding of temerity that was commonplace in the Renaissance; and further ambivalence in the figure of Daedalus, who may be a figure of the prudential mean (contrasting Icarus), or a second cautionary figure of temerity. This framework clarifies multi-voiced Golden-Age poems that blend several aspects of this heritage, including sonnets by Herrera and Arguijo, and Villamediana’s ‘Fábula de Faetón’. The chapter subsequently examines Icarus and Phaethon’s literary deployments more broadly, demonstrating that their frequent use in key literary contexts depends on the revised definition of temerity which they represent. Such contexts include: discussions of literary endeavour and poetic imitation; the unrequited sentiment of the Petrarchan lover; and the impossible love of socially mismatched couples in drama. Examples are drawn from Villamediana, Herrera, Gracián, Lope, Cervantes, Garcilaso, and Cetina, with a particular focus on Lope’s El perro del hortelano. A concluding section extends this temerity logic to contexts where Icarus and Phaethon need not appear, such as theatre’s concern with providentially assigned social roles (exemplified by Calderón’s El gran teatro del mundo), and picaresque obsession with social ascent (playfully explored in the Lazarillo).
Remedia amoris? Love and the Problem of Excess in the Poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega
Authors: Rabone Richard 
Published: July 2023

AbstractThis chapter analyses Garcilaso’s dissent from Petrarchan norms and rejection of emotional excess. It sees Garcilaso’s engagement with metriopatheia and the mean as a literary strategy designed to signal his dissent from previous traditions, particularly in Petrarchan and pastoral poetry; and it argues that a significant strand of his poetic corpus is animated not by advocacy of emotional moderacy, but by the narrator’s struggle to enact it. After outlining Garcilaso’s broader tendency towards emulative imitation and dissent from convention, and the view of Petrarchan or elegiac love as an emotional extreme to which metriopatheia is a key response, the chapter examines three areas of Garcilaso’s poetry. In the sonnets, several narrators attempt ‘remedies’ for the lover’s excess; but those sonnets’ poetic interest lies in their dramatization of the narrators’ struggle to enact potentially viable, ‘moderate’ cures. The Second Elegy is Garcilaso’s most explicit engagement with the mean, and has been read as an attack on its viability; instead, this poem really again dramatizes the narrator’s struggle, misapplying the legitimate logic of metriopatheia and the mean because his own perceptions are distorted as a figure of extremes. The centrepiece of the chapter is a re-reading of Garcilaso’s most substantial poem, the Second Eclogue, as this struggle to cure excessive, elegiac love is the key to the poem’s relationship with a specific imitative tradition encompassing Theocritus, Virgil, and Sannazaro. That tradition of the pastoral pharmakon/medicina defines Garcilaso’s poem, and allows the long-controversial generic shift from pastoral to epic/panegyric to be newly explained.
Speculum prudentiae? Means of Kingship and the Functioning of Tragedy in Calderón’sEl médico de su honra
Authors: Rabone Richard 
Published: July 2023

AbstractChapter 4 examines Calderón’s El médico de su honra, arguing that the play is driven by widespread susceptibility to several vices of excess which are shown by Aristotle and Aquinas to be opposed to prudence and the mean, especially temerity, precipitation, negligence, and haste. The chapter begins with key Thomist definitions and the link to Aristotelian prudence, suggested by the play’s consistent foregrounding of proportion, prudence, and the mean. The first half of the chapter then focuses on King Pedro’s appearances throughout the play, to show that he repeatedly errs in precisely these ways, demonstrating negligence, precipitation, and rashness, often because of excessive sensitivity regarding his royal image. This allows for renegotiation of the traditional dichotomy of Pedro as ‘just’ vs ‘cruel’: his imprudence, read in Aristotelian-Thomist terms, provides a clearer explanation for his conduct and his controversial judgement at the play’s climax, as well as a more profound understanding of his human frailties and sensitivities. The second half of the chapter extends this Aristotelian-Thomist framework to other characters, notably Mencía, Enrique, and Gutierre, presenting Calderón’s characterization in terms which are more psychologically plausible. The chapter also illuminates the play’s model of causation, whereby repeated moral errors shared by several characters form a collective hamartia and allow harmless coincidences to spiral into a tragic conclusion that inspires pity and fear. The chapter therefore also contributes to discussion of El médico as Aristotelian tragedy, reclaiming the usefulness of particular terms from the Poetics—in modified form—for interpretation of Calderón’s techniques.
Menopause and Hysterectomy
Authors: Mishra Gita D. , Chung Hsin-Fang , Hickey Martha , Kuh Diana , Hardy Rebecca 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
The timing of natural menopause has been linked to numerous chronic disease risks in later life. The mean age at menopause has shown a steady increase across birth cohorts, but the trends of premature (&lt; 40 years) and early menopause (40–44 years) are less clear. Some women do not experience natural menopause but instead undergo bilateral oophorectomy (surgical menopause) and/or hysterectomy. In this chapter, we summarise the evidence for biological and social factors across the life course that affect the timing of menopause, and the factors leading to decision-making about hysterectomy, including the presence of fibroids. The review covers the progress made as cohort studies have matured. In particular, we discuss the factors that influence age at menopause, including genetic factors, prenatal exposures, adverse childhood experiences, and reproductive, social, and behavioural factors. We also highlight evidence on vasomotor symptoms over the menopausal transition and the current guidelines on the use of menopausal hormone therapy.
A Life Course Approach to Musculoskeletal Ageing
Authors: Cooper Rachel , Ward Kate A. , Sayer Avan Aihie 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Osteoporosis, sarcopenia, and osteoarthritis pose major threats to healthy ageing and are leading contributors to the burden of disease and disability in all world regions. All three musculoskeletal conditions increase in prevalence with age, and at any one age, women have higher prevalence of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis and lower mean levels of muscle mass and strength than men. Over the last 2 decades, there has been a steady increase in the number of studies using a life course approach to investigate the aetiology of these age-related musculoskeletal conditions. In this chapter, we outline recent developments in this continually evolving field of study. This includes summaries of progress made on disease definitions and on understanding changes in relevant bone and muscle phenotypes across life. Recent life course findings on key risk factors including genetics, oestrogen, growth, obesity, diet, and physical activity are then described. These findings highlight some of the opportunities that exist at each and every life stage to prevent the onset of age-related musculoskeletal conditions and the many other adverse outcomes they precipitate. We also showcase some of the ways in which these findings are beginning to be translated into policy and practice with a life course approach now widely viewed as key to prevention and mitigation.
A Life Course Perspective on Women’s Health Behaviours
Authors: Chung Hsin-Fang , Mishra Gita D. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Adult health behaviours, such as smoking, alcohol use, diet, and physical inactivity, have been linked to chronic disease risk in later life, and the need to change harmful behaviours is a key aspect of health promotion policies. Women generally engage less in health-risk behaviours than men, but health inequalities are often more pronounced among women, especially in socially and economically disadvantaged groups. Thus, it is critical to understand the socioenvironmental effects driving gender differences in health behaviours. A life course approach to women’s health behaviours considers a temporal and social perspective, highlighting the population changes in health behaviours over time and studying inequalities with respect to gender and socioeconomic position. The comprehensive nature of life course epidemiology, which allows researchers to map biological, social, psychosocial, and environmental pathways throughout life leading to adult health behaviours has major implications for developing interventions and policies. This facilitates intervention policy not only to target at-risk groups at key stages in life but to recognise the social context as an opportunity to change their health behaviours, which may be more applicable and effective. This chapter reviews evidence for the long-term effects of childhood socioeconomic environment on adult health behaviours, pathways through self-identity, role model, behavioural capital, and behavioural tracking. We then discuss health behaviour changes during the COVID-19 pandemic and conclude with a brief outline of implications for health policy and future research.
Translating Women’s Health Research into Policy and Practice
Authors: Brown Helen , Best Stephanie , Hinkley Trina 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
Evidence alone is insufficient to change health-compromising behaviours. Therefore, effective Knowledge Translation (KT) is needed to maximise the uptake of evidence into practice through facilitating key evidence to be delivered as a preventive measure, identifying the most important phases of women’s lives when that evidence will influence decision-making, and determining the most effective messaging. This chapter outlines the KT process and how it can be used to ensure key messages are delivered to targeted audiences efficiently and effectively at the most relevant time in women’s lives. This includes an overview of the well-evidenced knowledge-to-action framework and three common processes within most KT frameworks: understanding the need, selecting, and trialling appropriate mechanisms for change and evaluating effectiveness. Following this, the chapter discusses how KT can be applied across women’s life course. This includes evidence that shows the necessity to consider differing biological and social influences at key stages throughout women’s lives and how this knowledge informs KT approaches that enable more appropriate mechanisms of change to be devised and implemented.
The Sino/Indian Rivalry and Indian Naval Modernization
Authors: Colley Christopher K. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
From 1991 to 2020 the Indian Navy transformed from a navy largely centred on protecting India’s immediate periphery to a force capable of projecting force to distant parts of the Indian Ocean Region. The key driver behind this modernization has been the Sino/Indian strategic rivalry. As Chinese naval visits increased in the Indian Ocean Region, calls increased in New Delhi to counter the Chinese navy. Of vital importance, multiple points of rivalry escalation between China and India constituted critical junctures in the rivalry, thus further exacerbating threat perceptions in India. Importantly, other explanations for India’s naval modernization such as arguments based on bureaucratic politics and nationalism are either insufficient, or are already embedded in the strategic rivalry.
Policy Recommendations and Conclusion
Authors: Colley Christopher K. 
Published: July 2023

Abstract
In this concluding chapter I argue that while there are opportunities for de-escalation in the Sino/U.S. and Sino/Indian strategic rivalries, there are also many opportunities for a continuation of the status quo and for increasing escalation. For each state involved there are policies that can be followed that would increase the chances of conflict. In the current situation I argue that the prospects of rivalry termination are very low. Rivalry termination does occur, but the conditions for such a termination are extremely low in the rivalries under review. In addition, this chapter provides a solid overview of the book and reinforces the book’s main argument that strategic rivalry is the primary driver of naval modernization in China and India.