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.
• Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class by Smitha Radhakrishnan (Duke University Press)
• Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places by Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones (ILR Press)
• Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures by Radha S. Hedge (New York University Press)
• Concubines and Courtesans: Women in Chinese Erotic Art by Ferry M. Bertholet (Prestel Publishing)
• Demanding Child Care: Women’s Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940-1971 by Natalie M. Fousekis (University of Illinois Press)
• Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility by Narin Hassan (Ashgate Publishing)
• Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan edited by Vera Mackie et al. (Routledge)
• Gendered Hate: Exploring Gender in Hate Crime Law by Jessica P. Hodge (Northeastern University Press)
• Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh by Lamia Karim (University of Minnesota Press)
• “Neoliberalization†as Betrayal: State, Feminism, and a Women’s Education Program in India by Shubhra Sharma Palgrave Macmillan)
• The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past by Gail Hershatter (University of California Press)
• The Limits of Gender Domination: Women, the Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765-1830 by Chad Thomas Black (University of New Mexico Press)
• Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman by Lesa Scholl (Ashgate Publshing)
• Troubling American Women: Narratives of Gender and Nation in Hong Kong by Stacilee Ford (Hong Kong University Press)
• Wings For Our Courage: Gender, Erudition, and Republican Thought by Stephanie H. Jed (University of California Press)