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.

Access to Justice in Iran: Women, Perceptions, and Reality by Sahar Maranlou (Cambridge University Press)	City Women: Money, Sex, and the Social Order in Early Modern London by Eleanor Hubbard (Oxford University Press)	Farzana: The Woman Who Saved an Empire by Julia Keay (I.B. Tauris)
Gender Equality in Public Services: Chasing the Dream by Hazel Conley and Margaret Page (Routledge)	Gender Politics in Transitional Justice by Catherine O’Rourke (Routledge)	Gender, Work, and Harness Racing: Fast Horses and Strong Women in Southwestern Pennsylvania by Elizabeth Anne Larsen (Lexington Books)
Gendering Globalization on the Ground: The Limits of Feminized Work for Mexican Women’s Empowerment by Gay Young (Routledge)	Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance by Elizabeth Hodgson (Cambridge University Press)	Imagining Women’s Careers by Laurie Cohen (Oxford University Press)
Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing edited by Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith (Palgrave Macmillan)	Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways Into Crime by Anqi Shen (Palgrave Pivot)	Protest Politics and the Democratization of South Korea: Strategies and Roles of Women by Youngtae Shin (Lexington Books)
Reconsidering Women’s History: Twenty Years of the Women’s History Network edited by Lucy Bland and Katharina Rowold (Routledge)	Women and Death in Film, Television, and News: Dead but Not Gone by Joanne Clarke Dillman (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women in Politics in the American City by Mirya R. Holman (Temple University Press)