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 Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820 by JoEllen DuLucia (Edinburgh University Press)	Accounting for Affection: Mothers, Families, and Politics in Early Modern Rome by Caroline Castiglione (Palgrave Macmillan)	Black Girls and Adolescents: Facing the Challenges edited by Cahterine Fisher Collins (Praeger)
Creating a College That Works: Audrey Cohen and Metropolitan College of New York by Grace G. Roosevelt (State University of New York Press)	Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 by Elissa Mainlander (Michigan State University Press)	In Search of the New Woman: Middle Class Women and Work in Britain, 1870-1914 by Gillian Sutherland (Cambridge University Press)
New Media in Black Women’s Autobiography: Intrepid Embodiment and Narrative Innovation by Tracy Curtis (Palgrave Macmillan)	New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment: Feminist and Material Resolutions by Carla Lam (Ashgate Publishing)	New Views on Pornography: Sexuality, Politics, and the Law by Lynn Cornella and Shira Tarrant (Praeger)
Sex and Unisex: Fashion, Feminism, and the Sexual Revolution by Jo B. Paoletti (Indiana University Press)	Simone de Beauvoir: Feminist Writings edited by Margaret A. Simons et al. (University of Illinois Press)	Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women by Michael A. Messner et al. (Oxford University Press)
Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000 by Michelle Haberland (University of Georgia Press)	The Color of Grace: How One Woman’s Brokenness Brought Healing and Hope to Child Survivors of War by Bethany Haley Williams (Howard Books)	The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development edited by Anne Coles et al. (Routledge)
Women in Contemporary Indian Society by Seema Pandey (Rawat Publications)	Women, Patronage, and Salvation in Renaissance Florence: Lucrezia Tornabuoni and the Chapel of the Medici Palace by Stefanie Solum (Ashgate Publishing)	Working Women in the U.S.: Statistical Data and a View of Female Self-Employment edited by Myles Godfrey (Nova Science Publishing)