Catherine Malabou works in classic continental philosophy, neuroscience, and neuro-psychoanalysis. With Changing Difference she contributes to serious scholarship on contemporary feminism, most notably on the issue of essentialism.

Nayan Shah’s "Stranger Intimacy" examines the social history of migrant South Asian males in the Canadian and US West during the first half of the 20th century. He analyzes this world not in isolation from other social groups but rather paradoxically as a world full of encounter.

In "Techniques of Pleasure" Margot Weiss offers an ethnography of the pansexual BDSM scene in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 2000s. The book draws on interviews with more than sixty BDSM practitioners, as well as extended ethnographic observations at dungeon play parties, community social gatherings (‘munches’), and workshops teaching BDSM techniques and etiquette around bondage, flogging, and forms of erotic role play.

"Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis" is an inspiring book. Through a set of critical self-reflections on alliances involving feminist scholars in the United States and Canada and grassroots organizations around the world, the contributors to this edited volume explore both the potentials of transnational feminist collaborations and the relations of power embedded within them.

I opened up Fiona Robinson’s recent book with excitement when I received it, as I was working on a paper linking human security and disasters and needed to think more critically about the human security literature. Robinson achieves this goal handily.