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.

African Female Entrepreneurship: Merging Profit and Social Motives for the Greater Good by Amanobea Boateng (Palgrave Macmillan)	Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back by Gretchen Carlson (Center Street)	Everyday Life and the Sacred: Re/Configuring Gender Studies in Religion edited by Angela Berlis et al. (Brill Academic Publishing)
Gender, Ageing and Extended Working Life: Cross-National Perspectives edited by Aine Ni Leime (Policy Press)	Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900 by Ashley Baggett (University Press of Mississippi)	Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel by Francine Klagsbrun (Schocken)
Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper by Linda Simon (Reaktion Books)	Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Transforming Public Space by Elizabeth Currans (University of Illinois Press)	Most Scandalous Woman: Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru by Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes (University of Oklahoma Press)
Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America by Emily E. LB. Twarog (Oxford University Press)	Sexual Politics and Feminist Science: Women Sexologists in Germany, 1900-1933 by Kirsten Leng (Cornell University Press)	The Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain by Leah Bassel and Akwugo Emejulu (Policy Press)
This Is How We Rise: Reach Your Highest Potential, Empower Women, Lead Change in the World by Claudia Chan (Da Capo Lifelong Books)	Women’s International Activism During the Inter-War Period, 1919–1939 edited by Ingrid Sharp and Matthew Stibbe (Routledge)	Women of the Storm: Civic Activism After Hurricane Katrina by Emmanuel David (University of Illinois Press)