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.

100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women’s Political Activism edited by Holly J. McCammon and Lee Ann Banaszak (Oxford University Press)	A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara (Oxford University Press)	Aesthetic Violence and Women in Film: Kill Bill With Flying Daggers by Joseph H. Kupfer (Routledge)
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain by Abby Norman (Nation Books)	Bodies That Birth: Vitalizing Birth Politics by Rachelle Chadwick (Routledge)	Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film by Kristen Anderson Wagner (Wayne State University Press)
Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States edited by Gillian Frank et al. (University of North Carolina Press)	Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery (HarperOne)	Exercise in the Female Life-Cycle in Britain, 1930-1970 by Eilidh Macrae (Palgrave Macmillan)
First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role by Jeanne Abrams (New York University Press)	Formulas for Motherhood in a Chinese Hospital by Suzanne Gottschang (University of Michigan Press)	Gender Inequalities in Rural European Communities During 19th and Early 20th Century: A Historical Perspective by Polly Thanailaki (Springer)
Gendered Vulnerability: How Women Work Harder to Stay in Office by Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt (University of Michigan Press)	Marie Stopes’ Sexual Revolution and the Birth Control Movement by Clare Debenham (Palgrave Pivot)	One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada by Joan Sangster (University of British Columbia Press)
Rocking the Boat: Welsh Women Who Championed Equality 1840-1990 by Angela V. John (Parthian Books)	The Feminist Revolution: The Struggle for Women’s Liberation by Bonnie J. Morris and D-M Withers (Smithsonian Books)	The Logics of Gender Justice: State Action on Women’s Rights Around the World by Malan Htun and S. Laurel Weldon (Cambridge University Press)
Using the Greek Goddesses to Create a Well-Lived Life for Women by Martha Beck (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)	Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TV by Diana Adesola Mafe (University of Texas Press)	Your Story Is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice by Elle Luna and Susie Herrick (Workman Publishing)