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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.


Gendering Post-1945 German History:
Entanglements
edited by Karen Hagermann et al.
(Berghahn Books)

How Girls Achieve
by Sally A. Nuamah
(Harvard University Press)

Irish Women and the Creation of Modern Catholicism, 1850-1950
by Cara Delay
(Manchester University Press)

Mother Is a Verb:
An Unconventional History
by Sarah Knott
(Sarah Crichton Books)

Pioneer Mother Monuments:
Constructing Cultural Memory
by Cynthia Culver Prescott
(University of Oklahoma Press)

Seasoned Socialism:
Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life
edited by Anastasia Lakhtikova et al.
(Indiana University Press)

Step In, Step Up:
Empowering Women for the School Leadership Journey
by Jane A.G. Kise and Barbara K. Watterson
(Solution Tree Press)

Women Made Visible:
Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City
by Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda
(University of Nebraska Press)

Woman of Color
by LaTonya Yvette
(Abrams Image)

Women of the Midan:
The Untold Stories of Egypt’s Revolutionaries
by Sherine Hafez
(Indiana University Press)

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