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Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

books2Women 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.


British Women Short Story Writers:
The New Woman to Now
edited by Emma Young and James Bailey
(Edinburgh University Press)

Gender Lens:
Women’s Issues and Perspectives
edited by Rekha Pande
(Rawat Publications)

Gendering Radicalism:
Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California
by Beth Slutsky
(University of Nebraska Press)

Girls, Gender and Physical Education:
An Activist Approach
by Kimberly L. Oliver and David Kirk
(Routledge)

Jewish Voices in Feminism:
Transnational Perspectives
by Nelly Las
(University of Nebraska Press)

Joy:
Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis
by Abigail Sanataria
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Mediated Eros:
Sexual Scripts Within and Across Cultures
by Miglena M. Sternadori
(Peter Lang Publishers)

Monica:
An Ordinary Saint
by Gillian Clark
(Oxford University Press)

Patronage, Gender and the Arts in Early Modern Italy:
Essays in Honor of Carolyn Valone
edited by Katherine A. McIver and Cynthia Stollhans
(Italica Press)

The Born Frees:
Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu
by Kimberly Burge
(W.W. Norton)

The Limits of Knowledge:
Generating Pragmatist Feminist Cases for Situated Knowing
by Nancy Arden McHugh
(State University of New York Press)

Women in Dark Times
by Jacqueline Rose
(Bloomsbury USA)

Women in the Criminal Justice System:
Tracking the Journey of Females and Crime
edited by Tina L. Freilburger and Catherine D. Marcum
(CRC Press)

Women Representatives in Britain, France, and the United States
by Harriet B. Applewhite
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Women’s Employment in Muslim Countries:
Patterns of Diversity
by Niels Spierings
(Palgrave Macmillan)

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