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 Cultural History of Women in the Modern Age edited by Liz Conor (Bloomsbury Academic)	A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Oxford University Press)	Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent by Susan C. Seymour (University of Nebraska Press)
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura (W.W. Norton & Company)	Gender, Peace and Security: Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325 edited by Louise Olsson and Theodora-Ismene Gizelis (Routledge)	Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915-1930 by Tanya Hart (New York University Press)
Helene Schweitzer: A Life of Her Own by Patti M. Marxsen (Syracuse University Press)	Laws Relating to Sex, Pregnancy, and Infancy: Issues in Criminal Justice by Carmen M. Cusack (Palgrave Macmillan)	Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform by Nanxiu Qian (Stanford University Press)
Rising to the Challenge: My Leadership Journey by Carly Fiorina (Sentinel)	Saving Florida: Women’s Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century by Leslie Kemp Poole (University Press of Florida)	Sight Unseen: Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes by Ellyn Kaschak (Columbia University Press)
Under the Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over by Caroline Fredrickson (The New Press)	Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain Since 1914 by Martin Pugh (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women’s Health in Africa: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities edited by Chimaraoke O. Izugbara et al. (Routledge)