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.

A Question of Sex: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Differences That Matter by Kristan Poirot (University of Massachusetts Press)	Alice Paul: Claiming Power by J.D. Zahniser and Amelia R. Fry (Oxford University Press)	Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis (Routledge)
Education and the Reverse Gender Divide in the Gulf States: Embracing the Global, Ignoring the Local by Natasha Ridge (Teachers College Press)	Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory: Feminism and Retelling the Tale by Veronica L. Schanoes (Ashgate Publishing)	Framing the Rape Victim: Gender and Agency Reconsidered by Carine M. Mardorossian (Rutgers University Press)
Indigenous African Knowledge Production: Food-Processing Practices Among Kenyan Rural Women by Njoki Nathani-Wane (University of Toronto Press)	Modern Motherhood: An American History by Jodi Vandenberg-Daves (Rutgers University Press)	Rose Elizabeth Cleveland: First Lady and Literary Scholar by Sirpa Salenius (Palgrave Pivot)
The Cult of St. Clare of Assisi in Early Modern Italy by Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby (Ashgate Publishing)	The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality edited by Susan Ehrlich et al. (Wiley-Blackwell)	Women and the Counter-Reformation in Early Modern Munster by Simone Laqua-O’Donnell (Oxford University Press)