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.

Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina by Natalia Milanesio (University of Pittsburgh Press)	Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy edited by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis (Rutgers University Press)	Gender in the Rhetoric of Jesus: Women in Q by Sara Parks (Fortress Academic)
Guest House for Young Widows: The Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni (Scribe)	Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays by Maisha S. Akbar (Routledge)	Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion by Marcellas Reynolds (Abrams)
The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives by Melanie Micir (Princeton University Press)	Women and the Society of Biblical Literature by Nicole L. Tilford (SBL Press)	Women Artists on the Leading Edge: Visual Arts at Douglass College by Joan M. Marter (Rutgers University Press)