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 Woman’s Life: Pauline Wengeroff and Memoirs of a Grandmother by Shulamit Magnus (Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization)	Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings by Hanadi Al-Samman (Syracuse University Press)	Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities edited by Becky R. Lee and Terry Tak-ling Woo (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South: Towards a Feminised Urban Future by Sylvia Chant and Cathy McIlwaine (Routledge)	Communicating Women’s Health: Social and Cultural Norms That Influence Health Decisions edited by Annette Madlock Gatison (Routledge)	Contemporary Perspectives on Ecofeminism edited by Mary Phillips and Nick Rumens (Routledge)
Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife by Kylie Jarrett (Routledge)	Finding Charity’s Folk: Enslaved & Free Black Women in Maryland by Jessica Millward (University of Georgia Press)	International Cinema and the Girl: Local Issues, Transnational Contexts edited by Fiona Handyside and Kate Taylor-Jones (Palgrave Macmillan)
Lee Miller: A Woman’s War by Hilary Roberts (Thames & Hudson)	Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Becoming Parents or Remaining Childfree: Confronting Social Inequalities by Cara Bergstrom-Lynch (Lexington Books)	Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory by Robin Truth Goodman (Cambridge University Press)
Muslim Women, Social Movements and the ‘War on Terror’ by Narzanin Massoumi (Palgrave Macmillan)	Political Belief in France 1927-1945: Gender, Empire, and Fascism in the Croix De Feu and Parti Social Français by Caroline Campbell (Louisiana State University Press)	Pregnancy Discrimination and the American Worker by Michelle D. Deardorff and James G. Dahl (Palgrave Macmillan)
Righteous Transgressions: Women’s Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right by Lihi Ben Shitrit (Princeton University Press)	She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body by Melissa Blanco Borelli (Oxford University Press)	The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature edited by Jodie Medd (Cambridge University Press)
The Female Voice of Myanmar: Khin Myo Chit to Aung San Suu Kyi by Nilanjana Sengupta (Cambridge University Press)	Violence Against Women in Pornography by Walter S. DeKeseredy and Marilyn Corsianos (Routledge)	What Gender is Motherhood? Changing Yoru‘ba’ Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity by Oyeronke Oyewumi (Palgrave Macmillan)