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.

Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World: Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress by Stephanie Cronin (Routledge)	Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women’s Writing by Sari Edelstein (University of Virginia Press)	Cross-Cultural Women Scholars in Academe: Intergenerational Voices edited by Lorri J. Santamaria et al. (Routledge)
Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India by Asha Nadkarni (University of Minnesota Press)	Exit Berlin: How One Woman Saved Her Family from Nazi Germany by Charlotte R. Bonelli (Yale University Press)	Feminism and Popular Culture: Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique by Rebecca Munford and Melanie Waters (Rutgers University Press)
Fifty Shades of Feminism edited by Lisa Appignanesi et al. (Virago UK)	Gender and Sexualities in Education: A Reader edited by Elizabeth J. Meyer and Dennis Carlson (Peter Lang International)	Gender, Science Fiction Television, and the American Security State: 1958-Present by Mark E. Wildermuth (Palgrave Macmillan)
Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs by Madonna Harrington Meyer (New York University Press)	In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women’s Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing by Mary McDonald-Rissanen (McGill-Queen’s University Press)	Japanese Women and the Transnational Feminist Movement Before World War II by Taeko Shibahara (Temple University Press)
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China by Leta Hong Fincher (Zed Books)	Medea’s Chorus: Myth and Women’s Poetry Since 1950 by Veronica House (Peter Lang International)	Never Wholly Other: A Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism by Jerusha Tanner Lamptey (Oxford University Press)
New Generations of Catholic Sisters: The Challenge of Diversity by Mary Johnson et al. (Oxford University Press)	Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia: A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture by Felice Lifshitz (Fordham University Press)	Surviving Katrina: The Experiences of Low-Income African-American Women by Jessica Warner Pardee (Lynne Rienner Publishers)
The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community by Kimberly Wilmot Voss (Rowman & Littlefield)	The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece by Kirk Ormand (Cambridge University Press)	The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish by Linda Przybyszewski (Basic Books)
The MBA Slingshot for Women: Using Business School to Catapult Your Career by Nicole McKinney Lindsay (Praeger Publishers)	Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South: Women, Specularity, and the Poetics of Subjectivity by Claire Raymond (Ashgate Publishing)	Women Photographers: From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman by Boris Friedewald (Prestel)