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.

Carrying the Torch: Maud Howe Elliott and the American Renaissance by Nancy Whipple Grinnell (University Press of New England)	Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns by Abbie Reese (Oxford University Press)	Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts by Elizabeth A. Sheehy (University of British Columbia Press)
Feminist Activism, Women’s Rights and Legal Reform by Mulki Al-Sharmani (Zed Books)	How Asian Women Lead: Lessons for Global Corporations by Jane Horan (Palgrave Macmillan)	Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt by Farha Ghannam (Stanford University Press)
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare (Harper)	Revolutionary Women Writers: Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams by Angela Keane (Northcote House Publishers)	Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome by Sarah S. Richardson (University of Chicago Press)
Tan Men/Pale Women: Color and Gender in Archaic Greece and Egypt, a Comparative Approach by Mary Ann Eaverly (University of Michigan Press)	The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau’s School for Girls, 1900-1960 by Laura S. Schor (Brandeis University Press)	The Faith Lives of Women and Girls edited by Nicola Slee et al. (Ashgate Publishing)