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.

How Women Decide: What’s True, What’s Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices by Therese Huston (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)	Jewish Feminism and Intersectionality by Maria Brettschneider (State University of New York Press)	Marital Separation and Lethal Domestic Violence by Desmond Ellis et al. (Routledge)
Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats (University Press of Mississippi)	Single Mothers in Contemporary Japan: Motherhood, Class, and Reproductive Practice by Aya Ezawa (Lexington Books)	Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music by Anna Beer (Oneworld Publications)
The Fiction of Thea Astley by Susan Sheridan (Cambria Press)	The Public Law of Gender: From the Local to the Global edited by Kim Rubinstein and Katharine G. Young (Cambridge University Press)	The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies edited by Nancy Naples et al. (Wiley Blackwell)
Ultimate Makeover: The Transforming Power of Motherhood by Carrie Gress (Beacon Publishing)	Women in Transnational History: Connecting the Local and the Global edited by Clare Midgley et al. (Routledge)	Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China by Louise Edwards (Cambridge University Press)