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.

Black Women in Politics: Demanding Citizenship, Challenging Power, and Seeking Justice edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachary and Nikoi G. Alexander-Floyd (State University of New York Press)	Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses by Jean O’Malley-Halley (University of Georgia Press)	Lumberjills: Britain’s Forgotten Army by Joanna Foat (The History Press)
Syndicate Women: Gender and Networks in Chicago Organized Crime by Chris M. Smith (University of California Press)	The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England’s “Maids for Virginia” by Jennifer Potter (Oxford University Press)	What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal by E. Jean Carroll (St. Martin’s Press)
Women and Sustainable Human Development: Empowering Women in Africa edited by Maty Konte and Nyasha Tirivayi (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women Before the Court: Law and Patriarchy in the Anglo-American World, 1600-1800 by Lindsay Moore (Manchester University Press)	Women, Patronage, and Salvation in Renaissance Florence: Lucrezia Tornabuoni and the Chapel of the Medici Palace by Stefanie Solum (Routledge)