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 World Elsewhere: An American Woman in Wartime Germany by Sigrid MacRae (Viking)	Being Miss America: Behind the Rhinestone Curtain by Kate Shindle (University of Texas Press)	Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890-1914 by Louise Hide (Palgrave Macmillan)
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott (Harper)	New Rules for Women: Revolutionizing the Way Women Work Together by Anne Litwin (Third Bridge Press)	Partisan Diary: A Woman’s Life in the Italian Resistance by Ada Gobetti (Oxford University Press)
Recognizing Women’s Leadership: Strategies and Best Practices for Employing Excellence by Tiffani Lennon (Praeger)	Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security edited by Gina Heathcote and Dianne Otto (Palgrave Macmillan)	Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women’s Intellect in Film and Television by Laura Mattoon D’Amore (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
The Remaking of Social Contracts: Global Feminists in the 21st Century edited by Gita Sen and Marina Durano (Zed Books)	Those Good Gertrudes: A Social History of Women Teachers in America by Geraldine J. Clifford (Johns Hopkins University Press)	Transitions to Adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa: Young Women’s Rising? by Michael Gebel and Stephanie Heyne
Wednesdays in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964 by Debbie Z. Harwell (University Press of Mississippi)	What Women Want: An Agenda for the Women’s Movement by Deborah L. Rhode (Oxford University Press)	When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections by Kathleen Dolan (Oxford University Press)