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.

Annie Marion MacLean and the Chicago Schools of Sociology, 1894-1934 by Mary Jo Deegan (Transaction Publishers)	Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature by Susana M. Morris (University of Virginia Press)	Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur (University of Chicago Press)
Contemporary Women Playwrights: Into the 21st Century edited by Penny Farfan and Lesley Ferris (Palgrave Macmillan)	Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture edited by Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport (Ohio State University Press)	Gender and Empowerment: a Comparative Analysis of India and USA by Keshab Chandra Mandal (Sarat Book House)
Gender Research in Natural Resource Management: Building Capacities in the Middle East and North Africa edited by Malika Abdelali-Martini and Aden Aw-Hassan (Routledge)	Gendering Science Fiction Films: Invaders From the Suburbs by Susan A. George (Palgrave Macmillan)	Girls Coming to Tech! A History of American Engineering Education for Women by Amy Sue Bix (MIT Press)
Pinay on the Prairies: Filipino Women and Transnational Identities by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio (University of British Columbia Press)	Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture by Sarah Projansky (New York University Press)	The Beauty Trade: Youth, Gender, and Fashion Globalization by Angela B. McCracken (Oxford University Press)
The ‘Incumberances’: British Women in India, 1615-1856 by Joan Mickelson Gaughan (Oxford University Press)	The Women Who Spied for Britain: Female Spies of the Second World War by Robyn Walker (Amberley)	Voicing Demands: Feminist Activism in Transitional Contexts edited by Sohela Nazneen and Maheen Sultan (Zed Books)
Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures by Karen Bush Gibson (Chicago Review Press)	Women in the Changing World: Global Experiences and Challenges edited by Sudakshina Ray Dutta and Sanchari Roy (Levant Books)	Women of Faith: The Chicago Sisters of Mercy and the Evolution of a Religious Community by Mary Beth Fraser Connolly (Fordham University Press)