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 Singularly Unfeminine Profession: One Woman’s Journey in Physics by Mary K. Gaillard (World Scientific Publishing)	Beyond Brutal Passions: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal by Mary Anne Poutanen (McGill Queens University Press)	Christian Doctrines for Global Gender Justice edited by Jenny Daggers and Grace Ji-Sun Kim (Palgrave Macmillan)
Culture and Liberty: Writings of Isabel Paterson edited by Stephen Cox (Transaction Publishers)	Elizabeth I and Her Circle by Susan Doran (Oxford University Press)	Finding Justice: A History of Women Lawyers in Maryland Since 1642 edited by Lynne A. Battaglia (George F. Thompson Publishing)
Gender and Sexualities in Education: A Reader edited by Elizabeth J. Meyer and Dennis Carlson (Peter Lang Publishers)	Maternal-Child Nursing Care with Women’s Health Companion, Second Edition: Optimizing Outcomes for Mothers, Children, and Families by Susan Ward and Shelton Hisley (F.A. Davis Company)	Myths About Women’s Rights: How, Where, and Why Rights Advance by Feryal M. Cherif (Oxford University Press)
Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954-2012 by Natalya Vince (Manchester University Press)	Parliamentary Pioneers: Labour Women MPs 1918-1945 by Mary Honeyball (Urbane Publications)	Princess Cultures: Mediating Girls’ Imaginations and Identities edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell and Rebecca C. Hains (Peter Lang Publishing)
Sportswomen in Cinema: Film and the Frailty by Nicholas Chare (I.B. Tauris)	Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan (Fourth Estate Ltd.)	The Afterglow of Women’s Pornography in Post-Digital China by Katrien Jacobs (Palgrave Macmillan)
The Art of the Animal: Fourteen Women Artists Explore “The Sexual Politics of Meat” by Kathryn Eddy et al. (Lantern Books)	The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891 edited by Cari M. Carpenter and Carolyn Sorisio (University of Nebraska Press)	Travels with Frances Densmore: Her Life, Work, and Legacy in Native American Studies edited by Joan M. Jensen and Michelle Wick Patterson (University of Nebraska Press)
Unsafe Abortion and Women’s Health: Change and Liberalization by Colin Francome (Ashgate Publishing)	Women Framing Hair: Serial Strategies in Contemporary Art by Heather Hanna (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)	Women in Japanese Religions by Barbara Ambros (New York University Press)