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 Early Christian Dress: Gender, Virtue, and Authority by Kristi Upson-Saia (Routledge)
Ӣ Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 by Sandra Slater and Fay A. Yarborough (University of South Carolina Press)
Ӣ Gender, Power and Management: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Higher Education edited by Barbara Bagihole and Kate White (Palgrave Macmillan)
Ӣ Gentlemen and Amazons: The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900 by Cynthia Eller (University of California Press)
Ӣ Herstories: Leading with the Lessons of the Lives of Black Women Activists by Judy A. Alston and Patrice A. McClellan (Peter Lang Publishing)
Ӣ Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran: The Life and Legacy of a Popular Female Artist by Kamran Talattof (Syracuse University Press)
Ӣ Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras by Sanja Bahun-Radunovic and V.G. Julie Rajan (Ashgate Publishing)
Ӣ Patrons of Women: Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal by Esther Hertzog (Berghahn Books)
Ӣ Postcolonial Representations of Women: Critical Issues for Education by Rachel Bailey Jones (Springer)
Ӣ Regulating the International Movement of Women: From Protection to Control by Sharron FitzGerald (Routledge)
Ӣ The Governance of Friendship: Law and Gender in the Decameron by Michael Sherberg (Ohio State University Press)
Ӣ The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany by Katie Sutton (Berghahn Books)
”¢ Women and Children’s Tribulation in Haiti by Rene Chery (Xlibris)
”¢ You Alone May Live: One Women’s Journey Through the Aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide by Mary K. Blewitt (Dialogue)

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