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.

African American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism by Joy R. Bostic (Palgrave Macmillan)	Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 by Carole A. Myscofski (University of Texas Press)	Black Women in Management: Paid Work and Family Formations by Diane Farmer (Palgrave Macmillan)
Califia Women: Feminist Education Against Sexism, Classism, and Racism by Clark A. Pomerleau (University of Texas Press)	Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers: Emerging From the Long Shadow of Farm Labor by Barbara Wells (Rutgers University Press)	Gender, Genre, and the Myth of Human Singularity by Nicole Tabor (Peter Lang Publishing)
Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives edited by Aili Mari Tripp et al. (New York University Press)	Male Peer Support and Violence Against Women: The History and Verification of a Theory by Walter S. DeKeseredy and Martin D. Schwartz (Northeastern University Press)	Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie (Quirk Books)
Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction: The Impact of Feminism and Postcolonialism edited by Helen Carol Weldt-Basson (Palgrave Macmillan)	 The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic by Helen Lovatt (Cambridge University Press)	Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism edited by Jeana Delrosso et al. (State University of New York Press)
When Sex Changed: Birth Control Politics and Literature Between the World Wars by Layne Parish Craig (Rutgers University Press)	Women in Pastoral Office: The Story of Santa Prassede, Rome by Mary M. Schaefer (Oxford University Press)	 Women, Men and Everyday Talk by Jennifer Coates (Palgrave Macmillan)