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.

Agency and Gender in Gaza: Masculinity, Femininity and Family During the Second Intifada by Aitemad Muhanna (Ashgate Publishing)	Battered Women’s Protective Strategies: Stronger Than You Know by Sherry Hamby (Oxford University Press)	Elite Girls’ Schooling, Social Class and Sexualised Popular Culture by Claire Charles (Routledge)
Living With Brain Injury: Narrative, Community, and Women’s Renegotiation of Identity by J. Eric Stewart (New York University Press)	Playing House in the American West: Western Women’s Life Narratives, 1839-1987 by Catheryn Halverson (University of Alabama Press)	Poetry, Geography, Gender: Women Rewriting Contemporary Wales by Alice Entwistle (University of Wales Press)
Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements by Erica Lorraine Williams (University of Illinois Press)	The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956 by Noel Burch et al. (Duke University Press)	The Faith Lives of Women and Girls: Qualitative Research Perspectives edited by Nicola Slee et al. (Ashgate Publishing)
The Incarceration of Women: Punishing Bodies, Breaking Spirits by Linda Moore and Phil Scraton (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women and Poverty: Psychology, Public Policy, and Social Justice by Heather E. Bullock (Wiley-Blackwell)	Women and Transformation in Russia edited by Aino Saarinen et al. (Routledge)