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.

American Cocktail: A “Colored Girl” in the World by Anita Reynolds (Harvard University Press)	Choosing Nonviolence: A Homework Manual for Women’s Groups by Kevin A. Fall et al. (Routledge)	Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India by Sarah Pinto (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters by Diane Jacobs (Ballantine Books)	Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting by Donna L. Harper (M.E. Sharpe)	Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945 by Anna Snaith (Cambridge University Press)
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific by Mary Cronk Farrell (Abrams)	Oshun’s Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas by Vanessa K. Valdes (State University of New York Press)	Rethinking Occupied Ireland: Gender and Incarceration in Contemporary Irish Film by Jessica Scarlata (Syracuse University Press)
The Ideal Refugees: Islam, Gender, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Syracuse University Press)	The National Federation of Women Workers, 1906-1921 by Cathy Hunt (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women Physicians and Professional Ethos in Nineteenth-Century America by Carolyn Skinner (Southern Illinois University Press)