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 Speech:
Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy

edited by Mari Mikkola
(Oxford University Press)

Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640:
Turning the World Upside Down

by Susan D. Amussen and David W. Underdown
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Gertrude Weil:
Jewish Progressive in the New South

by Leonad Rogoff
(University of North Carolina Press)

Making My Pitch:
A Woman’s Baseball Odyssey

by Ila Jane Borders
(University of Nebraska Press)


Negotiating Dissidence:
The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary

by Stefanie Van de Peer
(Edinburgh University Press)

The Destruction of Hillary Clinton
by Susan Bordo
(Melville House)

The Hello Girls:
America’s First Women Soldiers

by Elizabeth Cobbs
(Harvard University Press)

Ties That Bound:
Founding First Ladies and Slaves

by Marie Jenkins Schwartz
(University of Chicago Press)

Translation, Ideology and Gender
edited by Carmen Camus Camus and Cristina Gamez Castro
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

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