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.

A Halfway House for Women: Oppression and Resistance by Gail A. Caputo (Northeastern University Press)	Bodily Desire, Desired Bodies: Gender and Desire in Early Twentieth-Century German and Austrian Novels and Paintings by Esther K. Bauer (Northwestern University Press)	Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84 by Dominique Clement (University of British Columbia Press)
Finnish Women Making Religion: Between Ancestors and Angels edited by Terhi Utriainen and Paivi Salmesvuori (Palgrave Macmillan)	Girlhood and the Plastic Image by Heather Warren-Crow (Dartmouth College Press)	India’s Working Women and Career Discourses: Society, Socialization, and Agency by Suchitra Shenoy-Packer (Lexington Books)
Integral Voices on Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: Critical Inquiries edited by Sarah E. Nicholson and Vanessa D. Fisher (State University of New York Press)	Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt by Koenraad Donker van Heel (American University in Cairo Press)	Post-War Spanish Women Novelists and the Recuperation of Historical Memory by Patricia O’Byrne (Tamesis Books)
Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas edited by Julie Shayne (State University of New York Press)	The Woman I Am: Southern Baptist Women’s Writings, 1906-2006 by Melody Maxwell (University of Alabama Press)	The Women’s Land Army in First World War Britain by Bonnie White (Palgrave Macmillan)
White Migrations: Gender, Whiteness and Privilege in Transnational Migration by Catrin Lundstrom (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women and Development in Africa: How Gender Works by Michael Kevane (Lynne Rienner Publishers)	Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism: A History of the Shuttle Trade by Irina Mukhina (Northern Illinois University Press)
Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam by Dawn-Marie Gibson and Jamillah Karim (New York University Press)	Women, Travel Writing, and Truth edited by Clare Broome Saunders (Routledge)	Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing edited by Nina Lykke (Routledge)