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.

Black Women Against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil by Keisha-Khan Y. Perry (University of Minnesota Press)	Cupid’s Knife: Women’s Anger and Agency in Violent Relationships by Abby Stein (Routledge)	Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic by Samantha Pinto (New York University Press)
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod (Harvard University Press)	Green Retreats: Women, Gardens and Eighteenth-Century Culture by Stephen Bending (Cambridge University Press)	The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories by Susan Ostrov Weisser (Rutgers University Press)
Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam by Asma Sayeed (Cambridge University Press)	 Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Chloe Wigston Smith (Cambridge University Press)	 Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England by Paul Szarmach (University of Toronto Press)