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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.com.


A Question of Sex:
Feminism, Rhetoric, and Differences That Matter
by Kristan Poirot
(University of Massachusetts Press)

Drug Mules:
Women in the International Cocaine Trade
by Jennifer Fleetwood
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Going Places:
Slovenian Women’s Stories on Migration
edited by Mirjam Milharcic Hladnik and Jernej Mlekuz
(University of Akron Press)

Love, Money, and HIV:
Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS
by Sanyu A. Mojola
(University of California Press)

Monastic Women and Religious Orders in Late Medieval Bologna
by Sherri Franks Johnson
(Cambridge University Press)

Price of Fame:
The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce
by Sylvia Jukes Morris
(Random House)

The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement
by Amy Young Evrard
(Syracuse University Press)
The Myth of Seneca Falls:
Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
by Lisa Tetrault
(University of North Carolina Press)

The Political Consequences of Motherhood
by Jill S. Greenlee
(University of Michigan Press)

Sophie Discovers Amerika:
German-Speaking Women Write the New World
edited by Rob McFarland and Michelle Stott James
(Camden House)
Women and Gender in Science and Technology
edited by Londa Schiebinger
(Routledge)

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