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.

Ancient Greek Women in Film edited by Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Oxford University Press)	Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany by Alice Sanger (Ashgate Publishing)	Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature by Susana M. Morris (University of Virginia Press)
Daughters in Danger: Helping Our Girls Thrive in Today’s Culture by Elayne Bennett (Thomas Nelson)	Educating the New Southern Woman: Speech, Writing, and Race at the Public Women’s Colleges, 1884-1945 by David Gold and Catherine L. Hobbs (Southern Illinois University Press)	Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma by Federica K. Clementi (Brandeis University Press)
Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption by E. Wayne Carp (University of Michigan Press)	Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion: Lived Theologies and Literature edited by Mary McCartin Wearn (Ashgate Publishing)	Philanthropy and the Construction of Victorian Women’s Citizenship: Lady Frederick Cavendish and Miss Emma Cons by Andrea Geddes Poole (University of Toronto Press)