Recent Books 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 Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold (Crown Books)	Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet by Terese Svoboda (Schaffner Press)	Black Women’s Christian Activism: Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb by Betty Livingston Adams (New York University Press)
Excursions into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body by Joyce E. Kelley (Routledge)	Feminist Theory and the Bible: Interrogating the Sources by Esther Fuchs (Lexington Books)	Gender and Power: Towards Equality and Democratic Governance edited by Mino Vianello and Mary Hawkesworth (Palgrave Macmillan)
Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire by Allyson M. Poska (University of New Mexico Press)	Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War by Pamela D. Toler (Little, Brown & Co.)	Kicking Butt in Computer Science: Women in Computing at Carnegie Mellon University by Carol Frieze and Jeria Quesenberry (Dog Ear Publishing)
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet by Philip Freeman (W.W. Norton & Co.)	The FBI Wife: A Memoir by Sandra Windsor (Abbott Press)	The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World by Nawal El Saadawi (Zed Books)
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection by Holly Lewis (Zed Books)	Women, Work, and Worship in Lincoln’s Country: The Dumville Family Letters edited by Anne Heinz and John Heinz (University of Illinois Press)	Women’s Rights in the USA: Policy Debates and Gender Roles, Fifth Edition by Dorothy E. McBride and Janine A. Perry (Routledge)