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 and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons edited by Stephanie Y. Evans et al. (State University of New York Press)	Gender, Power, and Violence: Responding to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today by Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk by Amy S. Greenberg (Alfred A. Knopf)
Religion, Feminism, and Idoloclasm: Being and Becoming in the Women’s Liberation Movement by Melissa Raphael (Routledge)	Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe by Amanda Konkie (Rutgers University Press)	The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory edited by Robin Truth Goodman (Bloomsbury Academic)
The Collected Essays of Josephine J. Turpin Washington: A Black Reformer in the Post-Reconstruction South edited by Rita B. Dandridge (University of Virginia Press)	The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines by Kara Dixon Vuic (Harvard University Press)	This Is Our Message: Women’s Leadership in the New Christian Right by Emily S. Johnson (Oxford University Press)
Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia by Meera E. Deo (Stanford University Press)	Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities by Anna-Mari Almila (I.B. Tauris)	Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema by Barbara Mennel (University of Illinois Press)