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.

Autonomous Motherhood? A Socio-Legal Study of Choice and Constraint by Susan B. Boyd et al. (University of Toronto Press)	Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 by Cokie Roberts (Harper)	China’s Leftover Women: Late Marriage Among Professional Women and Its Consequences by Sandy To (Routledge)
First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women by Susan Swain (Public Affairs)	Gender (In)equality and Gender Politics in Southeastern Europe: A Question of Justice edited by Sabrina P. Ramet and Christine Hassenstab (Palgrave Macmillan)	Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times edited by Melissa A. McEuen and Thomas H. Appleton (University of Georgia Press)
The Women’s National Indian Association: A History by Valerie Sherer Mathes (University of New Mexico Press)	Women on the Role of Public Higher Education: Personal Reflections from CUNY’s Graduate Center edited by Deborah S. Gambs and Rose M. Kim (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses: Walking on the Grass edited by Lia Bryant and Katrina Jaworski (Lexington Books)