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.

Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women by W. Brad Johnson and David Smith (Routledge)	Becoming Feminist: Narratives and Memories by Carly Guest (Palgrave Macmillan)	Centering Women of Color in Academic Counterspaces: A Critical Race Analysis of Teaching, Learning, and Classroom Dynamics by Annemarie Vaccaro and Melissa J. Camba-Kelsay (Lexington Books)
Comfort Woman: A Filipina’s Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military by Maria Rosa Henson (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Feminist Eschatology: Embodied Futures by Emily Pennington (Routledge)	Gender Violence in Peace and War: States of Complicity edited by Victoria Sanford (Rutgers University Press)
Girl Positive: Supporting Girls to Shape a New World by Tatiana Fraser and Caia Hagel (Random House Canada)	Girlhood, Schools, and Media: Popular Discourses of the Achieving Girl by Michele Paule (Routledge)	Hiding Politics in Plain Sight: Cause Marketing, Corporate Influence, and Breast Cancer Policymaking by Patricia Strach (Oxford University Press)
The Sleeping Queen: The Divine Awakening of the Entrepreneurial Woman by Bettina Langerfeldt (Morgan Jame Faith)	Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear…and Why by Sady Doyle (Melville House)	Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother From the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Era edited by Carey Fleiner and Elena Woodacre (Palgrave Macmillan)