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 Tour of Reconstruction, Travel Letters of 1875 by Anna Dickinson edited by J. Matthew Gallman (University Press of Kentucky)	African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being by Elizabeth J. West (Lexington Books)	Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women’s Tradition, 1600-1900 by Jane Donawerth (Southern Illinois University Press)
Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power by Susan Hertog (Ballantine Books)	Destined for a Life of Service: Defining African-Jamaican Womanhood, 1865-1938 by Henrice Altink (Manchester University Press)	Integrating Women Into the Astronaut Corps: Politics and Logistics at NASA, 1972-2004 by Amy E. Foster (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China by Eileen M. Otis (Stanford University Press)	Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925 by Martin Hipsky (Ohio University Press)	Multicultural Girlhood: Racism, Sexuality, and the Conflicted Spaces of American Education by Mary E. Thomas (Temple University Press)
Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization edited by Grace K. Hong and Roderick A. Ferguson (Duke University Press)	The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States by Heather Munro Prescott (Rutgers University Press)	Women and Mental Disorders edited by Paula K. Lundberg-Love et al. (Praeger Publishers)