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.

Black Women Filmmakers and Black Love on Screen by Brandale N. Mills (Routledge)	Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities by Stephanie Kirk (University Press of Florida)	Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 by Michael E. O’Sullivan (University of Toronto Press)
Female Railway Workers in World War II by Susan Major (Pen and Sword Transport)	Global Women’s Work: Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy edited by Beth English et al. (Routledge)	Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920–1945 by Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy (University of North Carolina Press)
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R. Ghodsee (Nation Books)	Women and Sports in the United States: A Documentary Reader edited by Jaime Schultz et al. (Dartmouth College Press)	Women of Substance in Homeric Epic: Objects, Gender, Agency by Lilah Grace Canevaro (Oxford University Press)