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.

Excursions Into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body by Joyce E. Kelley (Ashgate Publishing)	Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7 by Hilary Neroni (Bloomsbury Academic)	Muslim Women, Social Movements and the ‘War on Terror’ by Narzanin Massoumi (Palgrave Macmillan)
Scarlet Women: The Scandalous Lives of Courtesans, Concubines, and Royal Mistresses by Ian Graham (Thomas Dunne Books)	Sneakers: Fashion, Gender, and Subculture by Yuniya Kawamura (Bloomsbury Academic)	The Color of Grace: How One Woman’s Brokenness Brought Healing and Hope to Child Survivors of War by Bethany Haley Williams (Thorndike Press)
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory edited by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth (Oxford University Press)	Women Empowerment and Socio-economic Development edited by Karmic Das and Gopal Sharma (New Century Publications)	Women, Workers, and Race in Life Magazine: Hansel Mieth’s Reform Photojournalism, 1934-1955 by Dolores Flamiano (Ashgate Publishing)