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.

A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America by Jennifer H. Lansbury (University of Arkansas Press)	All I Want Is a Job! Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System by Mary Gatta (Stanford Economics and Finance)	American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture by Michelle Schreiber (Edinburgh University Press)
Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage by Trisha Franzen (University of Illinois Press)	Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue: Liberating Traditions edited by Jennifer McWeeny and Ashby Butnor (Columbia University Press)	Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in African American and Afro-Cuban Women’s Writing by Paula Sanmartin (Cambria Press)
British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850-1930: Reclaiming Social Space by Kate Krueger (Palgrave Macmillan)	Creating This Place: Women, Family, and Class in St John’s, 1900-1950 by Linda Cullum and Marilyn Porter (McGill Queens University Press)	Displaced Women: Multilingual Narratives of Migration in Europe edited by Lucia Aiello et al. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
Fair Shared Cities: The Impact of Gender Planning in Europe edited by Ines Sanches de Madariaga and Marion Roberts (Ashgate Publishing)	Feminisms, Empowerment and Development: Changing Women’s Lives edited by Andrea Cornwall and Jenny Edwards (Zed Books)	Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine edited by Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Folkmarson Kall (State University of New York Press)
Gender and Sexualities in Education: A Reader edited by Elizabeth J. Meyer and Dennis Carlson (Peter Lang International)	Gender in Organizations: Are Men Allies or Adversaries to Women’s Career Advancement? edited by Ronald J. Burke and Debra A. Major (Edward Elgar Publishing)	Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American by David Greven (Ashgate Publishing)
Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery (Chicago Review Press)	Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen edited by Maristella Cantini (Palgrave Macmillan)	Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea by Jessok Song (State University of New York Press)
Ordinary Theologies: Religio-Spirituality and the Leadership of Black Female Principals by Noelle Witherspoon Arnold (Peter Lang International)	Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America’s Environment by Robert K. Musil (Rutgers University Press)	Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America by Leslie Dorrough Smith (Oxford University Press)
Staging Women and the Soul-Body Dynamic in Early Modern England by Sarah E. Johnson (Ashgate Publishing)	Suffrage and the Silver Screen by Amy Shore (Peter Lang International)	Waging Gendered Wars: U.S. Military Women in Afghanistan and Iraq by Paige Whaley Eager (Ashgate Publishing)