Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

Ӣ Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging edited by Rahab Adulhadi et al. (Syracuse University Press)
Ӣ Body Shots: Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders by Emily Fox-Kales (State University of New York Press)
Ӣ Citizenship, Faith, and Feminism: Jewish and Muslim Women Reclaim Their Rights by Jan Feldman (Brandeis University Press)
Ӣ Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960 by Michael A. Rembis (University of Illinois Press)
”¢ Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala by Cecilia Menjivar (University of California Press)
Ӣ Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World by Cecilia L. Ridgeway (Oxford University Press)
Ӣ I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim edited by Maria M. Ebrahimji and Zahra T. Suratwala (White Cloud Press)
Ӣ Identity in Place: Contemporary Indigenous Fiction by Women Writers in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand by Paula Anca Farca (Peter Lang Publishing)
Ӣ Land of the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women edited by Jennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi (University of California Press)
”¢ Literature, Gender, and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Life and Works of A’isha Taymur by Mervat F. Hatem (Palgrave Macmillan)
Ӣ Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden (Scribner Publishing)
”¢ Pens and Needles: Women’s Textualities in Early Modern England by Susan Frye (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Ӣ Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics by Karla FC Holloway (Duke University Press)
Ӣ Sex, Gender, and Time in Fiction and Culture edited by Ben Davies and Jana Funke (Palgrave Macmillan)
”¢ Wanton West: Madams, Money, Murder, and the Wild Women of Montana’s Frontier by Lael Morgan (Chicago Review)

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Related Articles

Latest News

Michelle R. Johnston Named the First Woman President of the University of Montevallo

Although it was initially founded as school for women, the University of Montevallo has never had a woman president. Now the university has reached a historic milestone and selected selected Michelle R. Johnston to serve as its next president.

Katy Ho to Lead Portland Community College in Oregon

Dr. Ho is the new acting president of Portland Community College. Prior to her new role, she was the college's executive vice president.

Five Women Scholars Selected to Lead Professional Organizations in Their Fields

The women who are taking on new leadership roles with professional academic organizations are Yasmeen Shorish of James Madison University in Virginia, Elena Carbone of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shelley Lusetti of New Mexico State University, Oona Hathaway of Yale Law School, and Keisha Blain of Brown University.

Katherine Yelick to Direct Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a national program run by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Dr. Yelick, a computer scientist and longtime UC Berkeley faculty member, will become the laboratory's next director on July 1.

Two Women Selected for Key Interim Leadership Roles with the Universities of Wisconsin

Renée Wachter, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Superior, has been selected to serve as interim president of the Universities of Wisconsin. Maria Cuzzo, provost of UW-Superior, will serve as the university's interim chancellor while Dr. Wachter assumes her new responsibilities.

President

The next president will lead one of the most successful and well-respected community colleges in the country.

Research Assistant Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.