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.

Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings by Hanadi Al-Samman (Syracuse University Press)	Disruptive Feminisms: Raced, Gendered, and Classed Bodies in Film by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (Palgrave Pivot)	Elite Women in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690-1745 by Rachel Wilson (Boydell Press)
Enabling Gender Equality: Future Generations of the Global World edited by Eunice Rodriguez and Barbara Wejnert (Emerald Group Publishing)	From Slave Girls to Salvation: Gender, Race, and Victoria’s Chinese Rescue Home, 1886-1923 by Shelly Ikebuchi (University of British Columbia Press)	Gender and Social Hierarchies: Perspectives From Social Psychology edited by Klea Faniko et al. (Routledge)
Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From Obscurity to Parity? edited by Gretchen Bauer and Josephine Dawuni (Routledge)	High-Skill Migration and Recession: Gendered Perspectives edited by Anna Triandafyllidou and Irina Isaakyan (Palgrave Macmillan)	Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Polish Women’s Writing by Ursula Chowaniec (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
Napoleon’s Other Wife: The Story of Marie-Louise, Duchess of Parma, the Lesser Known Wife of Napoleon Bonaparte by Deborah Jay (Rosa’s Press)	Nepali Migrant Women: Resistance and Survival in America by Shobha Hamal Gurung (Syracuse University Press)	Sewing, Fighting and Writing: Radical Practices in Work, Politics and Culture by Maria Tamboukou (Rowman & Littlefield International)
Sex Radical Cinema by Carol Siegel (Indiana University Press)	The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform: Governing Loose Women by Greggor Mattson (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Choson Korea by Jisoo Kim (University of Washington Press)
The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract: Working and Living in Contingency edited by Lisa Adkins and Maryanne Dever (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women Ethnographers and Native Women Storytellers: Relational Science, Ethnographic Collaboration, and Tribal Community by Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez (Lexington Books)	Women’s Views: The Narrative Stereograph in Nineteenth-Century America by Melody Davis (University of New Hampshire Press)