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 Girl’s Got To Breathe: The Life of Teresa Wright by Donald Spoto (University Press of Mississippi)	American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers by Nancy Jo Sales (Alfred A. Knopf)	Another Year Finds Me in Texas: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Pier Stevens by Vicki Adams Tonnage (University of Texas Press)
Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women edited by Chia Youyee Vang et al. (University of Minnesota Press)	Combat Service Opportunities for Women: Expansion and Progress Issues edited by Cassandra Schultz (Nova Science Publishers)	Fighting for Mandela: The Explosive Autobiography of the Woman Who Helped to Destroy Apartheid by Priscilla Jana (Metro Books)
Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Psychological Assessment edited by Virginia Brander and Joni L. Mihura (Routledge)	Migrant Women’s Voices: Talking About Life and Work in the UK Since 1945 by Linda McDowell (Bloomsbury)	Poems That Make Grown Women Cry edited by Anthony Holden and Ben Holden (Simon & Schuster)
Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines: Woman’s Work by Jessica Silsby Brater (Bloomsbury)	Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and its Victims by Ramona Vijeyarasa (Ashgate Publishing)	Women Doing Life: Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity by Lora Bex Lempert (New York University Press)