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Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

Wobooks2men 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 Tyrannous Eye:
Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and Photographs
by Pearl Amelia McHaney
(University Press of Mississippi)

Eminent Buddhist Women
edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo
(State University of New York Press)

Fat Blame:
How the War on Obesity Victimizes Women and Children
by April Michelle Herndon
(University Press of Kansas)

Gender, artWork and the Global Imperative:
A Materialist Feminist Critique
by Angela Dimitrakaki
(Manchester University Press)

Management and Gender in Higher Education
by Pat O’Connor
(Manchester University Press)

Notes from a Colored Girl:
The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis
by Karsonya Wise Whitehead
(University of South Carolina Press)

Pandoras Box:
Looking Into the Conditions of Ageing Single Women in Mindanao
by Jennifer M. Arbiol
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

Sally Ride:
America’s First Woman in Space
by Lynn Sherr
(Simon & Schuster)

The Defiant Life of Vera Figner:
Surviving the Russian Revolution
by Lynne Ann Hartnett
(Indiana University Press)

Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
by Fiona Ritchie
(Cambridge University Press)

Women in Politics:
Gender, Power and Development
edited by Mariz Tadros
(Zed Books)

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