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.

Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania by Jill Massino (Berghahn Books)	Feminist Theology and Contemporary Dieting Culture: Sin, Salvation and Women’s Weight Loss Narratives by Hannah Bacon (T&T Clark)	Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India by Natasha Behl (Oxford University Press)
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King (Doubleday)	Romantic Vacancy: The Poetics of Gender, Affect, and Radical Speculation by Kate Singer (State University of New York Press)	Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution by Kacy Tillman (University of Massachusetts Press)
The Pursuit of Parenthood: Reproductive Technology FromTest-Tube Babies to Uterus Transplants by Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner (Johns Hopkins University Press)	Urban Captivity Narratives: Women’s Writing After 9/11 by Heather Hillsburg (Routledge)	Women and Evacuation in the Second World War: Femininity, Domesticity and Motherhood by Maggie Andrews (Bloomsbury Academic)