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.

Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster by Anthea Taylor (Palgrave Macmillan)	Community Boundaries and Border Crossings: Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers edited by Kristen Lillvis (Lexington Books)	Elise Boulding: Autobiographical Writings and Selections from Unpublished Journals and Letters edited by J. Russell Boulding (Springer)
Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality: A Piercing Darkness edited by Elizabeth Anderson et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)	Muslim Women and Power: Political and Civic Engagement in West European Societies by Daniele Joly and Khursheed Wadia (Palgrave Macmillan)	On Raglan Road: Great Irish Love Songs and the Women Who Inspired Them by Gerald Hanberry (Collins Press)
Peter Gowland’s Girls edited by Thomas Schirmbock (Kehrer Verlag)	Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Reimagining Queer Identity by Irune del Rio Gabiola (Lexington Books)	Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain From the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly edited by Rosie Wyles and Edith Hall (Oxford University Press)
Women in STEM Disciplines: The Yfactor 2016 Global Report on Gender in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics by Claudine Schmuck (Springer)	Women, Politics, and Democracy in Latin America edited by Tomas Dosek et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women’s Writing, 1660-1830: Feminisms and Futures edited by Jennie Batchelor and Gillian Dow (Palgrave Macmillan)