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.

Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States by Lori Merish (Duke University Press)	Feminist Pedagogy, Practice, and Activism: Improving Lives for Girls and Women edited by Jennifer L. Martin et al. (Routledge)	The History of British Women’s Writing, 1945-1975: Volume Nine edited by Clare Hanson and Susan Watkins (Palgrave Macmillan)
The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald by Deborah Pike (University of Missouri Press)	Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Career of Ruby Keeler by Ed Harbur (BearManor Media)	Trance Speakers: Femininity and Authorship in Spiritual Séances, 1850-1930 by Claudie Massicotte (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Understanding Loss and Grief for Women: A New Perspective on Their Pain and Healing by Robert W. Buckingham and Peggy A. Howard (Praeger)	Women in the World of Frederick Douglass by Leigh Fought (Oxford University Press)	Women’s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Carme Font (Routledge)