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.

Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1960-2000 edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft (Oxford University Press)	Behind the Wireless: A History of Early Women at the BBC by Kate Murphy (Palgrave Macmillan)	Breaking the Sequence: Women’s Experimental Fiction edited by Ellen G. Friedman and Miriam Fuchs (Princeton University Press)
Breaking Through: Stories and Best Practices From Companies That Help Women Succeed by Martine Liautaud (John Wiley & Sons)	Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women’s Fiction: Gender, Narration and Globalisation by Ruvani Ranasinha (Palgrave Macmillan)	Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women edited by Erika Martinez (University of Georgia Press)
Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman by Brooke Hauser (Harper)	Feminist Theory and the Classics edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Amy Richly (Routledge)	Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne by Christopher Andersen (Gallery Books)
Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction by Megan Hoffman (Palgrave Macmillan)	Goze: Women, Musical Performance, and Visual Disability in Traditional Japan by Gerald Groemer (Oxford University Press)	Jobs, Collaborations, and Women Leaders in the Global Chemistry Enterprise edited by H.N. Cheng et al. (American Chemical Society)
Marital Separation and Lethal Domestic Violence by Desmond Ellis et al. (Routledge)	Reading Medieval European Women Writers: Strong Literary Witnesses From the Past by Albrecht Classen (Peter Lang Publishers)	Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms edited by Adele Jones and Claire O’Callaghan (Palgrave Macmillan)
Sex Work and Female Self-Empowerment by Stephanie Hunter Jones (Routledge)	The Enigma of a Violent Woman: A Critical Examination of the Case of Karla Homolka by Jennifer Kilty and Sylvie Frigon (Routledge)	The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability by Kristen Hogan (Duke University Press)
Understanding Doulas and Childbirth: Women, Love, and Advocacy by Cheryl A. Hunter and Abby Kallio (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women and Cultural Citizenship in Turkey by Solen Sanli (I.B. Tauris)	Wrongful Convictions of Women: When Innocence Isn’t Enough by Marvin D. Free Jr. and Mitch Ruesink (Lynne Rienner Publishers)