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.com.


A History of Women’s Boxing
by Malissa Smith
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

Bodies and Bones:
Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging

by Tanya L. Shields
(University of Virginia Press)

Deborah’s Daughters:
Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation

by Joy A. Schroeder
(Oxford University Press)


Fantasies of Identification:
Disability, Gender, Race

by Ellen Samuels
(New York University Press)


Hard Choices
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
(Simon & Schuster)

Representation:
The Case of Women

edited by Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
(Oxford University Press)

Talking to the Dead:
Religion, Music, and Lived Memory Among Gullah/Geechee Women

by LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant
(Duke University Press)

The Lost Wave:
Women and Democracy in Postwar Italy

by Molly Tambor
(Oxford University Press)

The Rani of Jhansi:
Gender, History, and Fable in India

by Harleen Singh
(Cambridge University Press)

The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime
edited by Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy
(Oxford University Press)

The Queer Turn in Feminism:
Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender

by Anne Emmanuelle Berger, translated by Catherine Porter
(Fordham University Press)

Voices at Work:
Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece

by Andromache Karanika
(Johns Hopkins University Press)

Western College for Women
by Jacqueline Johnson
(Arcadia Publishing)

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