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.

Ageing Femininity on Screen: The Older Woman in Contemporary Cinema by Niall Richardson (Bloomsbury Academic)	Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender by Claire Annesley et al. (Oxford University Press)	Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival by Diane Noomin (Abrams ComicArts)
Gender Mosaic: Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain by Daphna Joel and Luba Vikhanski (Little, Brown Spark)	In Plain Sight: Exploring the Field of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict edited by Kirsten Campbell et al. (Zubaan Books)	Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America by Nefertiti Austin (SourceBooks)
Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership: From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel edited by Elisabeth Krmmer and Patricia Anne Simpson (Camden House)	Re-Reading the Monstrous-Feminine: Art, Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis edited by Nicholas Chare et al. (Routledge)	Simone de Beauvoir and the Colonial Experience: Freedom, Violence, and Identity by Nathalie Nye (Lexington Books)
Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America by Anya Jabour (University of Illinois Press)	The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity by Amy Allen (Routledge)	The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy (Beacon Press)
Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector by Chiara Bonfiglioli (I.B. Tauris)	Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor edited by David Gold and Jessica Enoch (University of Pittsburgh Press)	Women’s Everyday Lives in War and Peace in the South Caucasus by Ulrike Ziemer (Palgrave Macmillan)