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.

A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead (Harper)	Body Parts on Planet Slum: Women and “Telenovelas” in Brazil by Lisa Beljuli Brown (Anthem Press)	Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie (Random House)
Daughters of the Declaration: How Women Social Entrepreneurs Built the American Dream by Claire Gaudiani and David Graham Burnett (Public Affairs)	Diffusion of Gender Quotas in Latin America and Beyond: Advances and Setbacks in the Last Two Decades by Adriana Paitti-Crocker (Peter Lang Publishing)	Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism: The Philosophy of Ella Lyman Cabot by John J. Kaag (Lexington Books)
Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons edited by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi (McSweeney’s Books)	Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space by Alice Fahs (University of North Carolina Press)	Performing Herself: Autobiography and Fanny Kelly’s “Dramatic Recollections” by Gilli Bush-Bailey (Manchester University Press)
The First We Can Remember: Colorado Pioneer Women Tell Their Stories by Lee Schweninger (University of Nebraska Press)	The Gendered Palimpsest: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early Christianity by Kim Haines-Eitzen (Oxford University Press)	Today I Am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah around the World edited by Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz (Indiana University Press)
Women, Spirituality, and Transformative Leadership: Where Grace Meets Power by Kathe Schaaf et al. (Skylight Paths Publishing)	Women’s Poetry and Popular Culture by Marsha Bryant (Palgrave Macmillan)