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.

50 Billion Dollar Boss: African-American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership by Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman (Palgrave Macmillan)	100 Greatest Women on Coins by Ron Guth (Whitman Publishing)	Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century edited by Elana Levine (University of Illinois Press)
Enduring Truths: Sojourner’s Shadows and Substance by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (University of Chicago Press)	Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England: Creating Their Own Meanings by Akiko Kusunoki (Palgrave Macmillan)	Hidden Lives, Public Personae: Women and Civic Life in the Roman West by Emily Hemelrijk (Oxford University Press)
Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism edited by Donna King and Catherine G. Valentine (Vanderbilt University Press)	Maternal Mortality: Risk Factors, Anthropological Perspectives, Prevalence in Developing Countries and Preventive Strategies for Pregnancy-Related Deaths by David A. Schwartz (Nova Science Publishing)	Opening Acts: Narrative Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Feminist Fiction by Catherine Romagnolo (University of Nebraska Press)
Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949 by Zhao Ma (Harvard University Asian Center)	Sex Trafficking: Issues from a Gender-Based Discrimination Perspective and Federal Legal Proposals by Joyce Fuller (Nova Science Publishers)	Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter (Random House)
Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate edited by Sanja Bahun and V.G. Julie Rajan (Ashgate Publishing)	Women in the Medieval Monastic World edited by Janet Burton and Karen Stober (Brepols Publishing)	Women Screenwriters: An International Guide edited by Jill Nelmes and Jule Selbo (Palgrave Macmillan)