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. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of WIAReport.

Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

Childbearing, Women’s Employment and Work-Life Balance Policies in Contemporary Europe edited by Livia Sz. Olah and Ewa Fratczak (Palgrave Macmillan)	Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters, and Hospitals by Lori A. Brown (Ashgate Publishing Company)	Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement by J. Todd Moye (Rowman & Littlefield)
It’s My Fault: My Journey Through Breast Cancer by Sherry Kay Thompson (WestBow Press)	Kantianism, Liberalism, and Feminism: Resisting Oppression by Carol Hay (Palgrave Macmillan)	Race and Narrative in Italian Women’s Writing Since Unification by Melissa Coburn (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)
Sex and International Tribunals: The Erasure of Gender From the War Narrative by Chiseche Salome Mibenge (University of Pennsylvania Press)	The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology, 1863-1963 by Kathleen L. Sheppard (Lexington Books)	Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture by Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson (Texas A&M University Press)
Women and English Piracy, 1540-1720: Partners and Victims of Crime by John C. Appleby (BOYE6)	Women, Gender, and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Memory of Betty Rizzo edited by Temma Berg and Sonia Kane (Lehigh University Press)	Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection by Deborah L. Spar (Sarah Crichton Books)