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.

Categories We Live By: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories by Asta (Oxford University Press)	Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel’s Periphery by Pnina Motzafi-Haller (Wayne State University Press)	Gender and Short Fiction: Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain edited by Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura Lojo-Rodriguez (Routledge)
Junctures in Women’s Leadership: The Arts by Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin (Rutgers University Press)	Mothers of the Military: Support and Politics During Wartime by Wendy M. Christensen (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Representations of the Mother-in-Law in Literature, Film, Drama, and Television edited by Jo Parnell (Lexington Books)
Speaking Up: Understanding Language and Gender by Allyson Jule (Multilingual Matters)	The Gender Legacy of the Mao Era: Women’s Life Stories in Contemporary China by Xin Huang (State University of New York Press)	The Neurobiology of Motherhood: Maternal Subjectivities and Embodied Experiences by Linda Burnett (Routledge)
The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought by Mara H. Benjamin (Indiana University Press)	Women of the Blue and Gray: True Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies of the Civil War by Marianne Monson (Shadow Mountain)	Women Researching in Africa: The Impact of Gender edited by Ruth Jackson and Max Kelly (Palgrave Macmillan)