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.

Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture by Eve Krakowski (Princeton University Press)	If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women’s Prison in Communist Poland by Anna Muller (Oxford University Press)	Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books)
Governing in a Global World: Women in Public Service edited by Maria J. D’Agostino and Marilyn Marks Rubin (Routledge)	Maternity: Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa by Herbert M. Cole (Mercatorfonds)	Mormon Women’s History: Beyond Biography edited by Rachel Cope et al. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)
Self-Harm in New Woman Writing by Alexandra Gray (Edinburgh University Press)	Shame and the Anti-Feminist Backlash: Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890-1920 by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa (Routledge)	The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England by Christina Luckyi and Niamh J. O’Leary (University of Nebraska Press)