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.

Addressing Violence Against Women on College Campuses edited by Catherine Kaukinen (Temple University Press)	Ascendancy Women and Elementary Education in Ireland: Educational Provision for Poor Children, 1788-1848 by Ellis O’Sullivan (Palgrave Macmillan)	Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film edited by Julie A. Chappell and Mallory Young (Palgrave Macmillan)
Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability edited by Stephanie Y. Evans et al. (State University of New York Press)	Conversations With Edwidge Danticat edited by Maxine Lavon Montgomery (University Press of Mississippi)	International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History by Jocelyn Olcott (Oxford University Press)
It’s My Country Too: Women’s Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan edited by Jerri Bell and Tracy Crow (Potomac Books)	Muslim Women’s Quest for Justice: Gender, Law and Activism in India by Mengia Hong Tschalaer (Cambridge University Press)	Okinawa’s GI Brides: Their Lives in America by Etsuko Takushi Crissey (University of Hawaii Press)
Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies: Women and the Mexican-American War by John M. Belohlavek (University of Virginia Press)	Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan by Elaine M. Hayes (Ecco Press)	Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy by Steve Massa (BearManor Media)
Tagore’s Ideas of the New Woman: The Making and Unmaking of Female Subjectivity edited by Chandrava Chakraverty and Sneha Kar Chaudhuri (Sage Publications)	When Women Didn’t Count: The Chronic Mismeasure and Marginalization of American Women in Federal Statistics by Robert Lopresti (Praeger)	Women and Asian Religions edited by Zayn R. Kassam (Praeger)
Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites by Yuval Jobani and Nahshon Perez (Oxford University Press)	Women’s Rights: Reflections in Popular Culture edited by Ann M. Savage (Greenwood Publishing)	Writings of Farm Women, 1840-1940: An Anthology edited by Carol Fairbanks and Bergine Haakenson (Routledge)