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.


Good and Mad:
The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger

by Rebecca Traister
(Simon & Schuster)

Lost:
Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America

by Shannon Withycombe
(Rutgers University Press)

Modernism, Sex, and Gender
by Celia Marshik and Allison Pease
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Mothering and Desistance in Re-Entry
by Venezia Michalsen
(Routledge)

Muslim Women and White Femininity:
Reenactment and Resistance

by Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra
(Peter Lang International Publishers)

Rethinking Feminist Phenomenology:
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives

edited by Sara Cohen Shabot and Shristinia Landry
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding:
Power, Pleasure, Poetics

by Robyn Lee
(University of Toronto Press)

Vexy Thing:
On Gender and Liberation

by Imani Perry
(Duke University Press)

WE:
Men, Women, and the Decisive Formula for Winning at Work

by Rania H. Anderson
(John Wiley & Sons)

Women in Early Medieval China
by Bret Hinsch
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

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