Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

books2Women 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 Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence
by Stephanie M. Crumpton
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Absent Aviators:
Gender Issues in Aviation

edited by DonnaBridges et al.
(Ashgate Publishing)

Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950
edited by Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Female Tommies:
The Frontline Women of the First World War

by Elisabeth Shipton
(The History Press)

Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature:
1789-1920

by Elizabeth Smith Rousselle
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Mademoiselle:
Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

by Rhonda K. Garelick
(Random House)

Memorializing Motherhood:
Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother’s Day

edited by Katharine Lane Antolini
(West Virginia University Press)

Nazi Women:
The Attraction of Evil

by Paul Roland
(Arcturus Publishing)


Personal Effects:
Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo

edited by Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta
(Fordham University Press)


Shaping Work-Life Culture in Higher Education:
A Guide for Academic Leaders

by Laura Koppes Bryan and Cheryl A. Wilson
(Routledge)

Women, Ritual, and Power:
Placing Female Imagery of God in Christian Worship

by Elizabeth Ursic
(State University of New York Press)

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