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 City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950 by Marta Gutman (University of Chicago Press)	Feminism: Perspectives, Stereotypes/Misperceptions and Social Implications edited by Pearce Stroud (Nova Science Publishing)	Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma’s Women Prisoners by Susan F. Sharp (Rutgers University Press)
Moroccan Women, Activists, and Gender Politics: An Institutional Analysis by Eve Sandberg and Kenza Aqertit (Lexington Books)	Public Theology and the Challenge of Feminism edited by Anita Monro and Stephen Burns (Routledge)	The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor (Princeton University Press)
Women in Politics and Media: Perspectives From Nations in Transition edited by Maria Raicheva and Elza Ibroscheva (Bloomsbury Academic)	Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice by Marion Katz (Columbia University Press)	Women’s Colleges and Universities in a Global Context by Kristen A. Renn (Johns Hopkins University Press)