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.

Beyond the Cloister: Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Literary Culture by Jenna Lay (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Everyday Discourses of Menstruation: Cultural and Social Perspectives by Victoria Louise Newton (Palgrave Macmillan)	Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives edited by Carole R. McCann and Seung-kyung Kim (Routledge)
Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400─1800 edited by James Daybed and Svante Norrhem (Routledge)	Handbook on Gender in World Politics edited by Jill Stearns and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage (Edward Elgar Publishing)	Horseback Schoolmarm: Montana, 1953–1954 by Margot Liberty (University of Oklahoma Press)
Indian Women as Entrepreneurs: An Exploration of Self-Identity by Payal Kumar (Palgrave Macmillan)	Let’s Get Real: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender Identities in the Classroom by Martha Caldwell and Oman Frame (Routledge)	Live Form: Women, Ceramics, and Community by Jenni Sorkin (University of Chicago Press)
Ovid’s Women of the Year: Narratives of Roman Identity in the Fasti by Angeline Chiu (University of Michigan Press)	The Lives of Older Lesbians: Sexuality, Identity & the Life Course by Jane Traies (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing: An Historical and Social Study by William Aspray (Springer)