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. As an Amazon Associate, WIAReport will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases.

Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.

Bodies That Work: African American Women’s Corporeal Activism in Progressive America by Tami Miyatsu (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers)	Developing Women Leaders in the Academy Through Enhanced Communication Strategies edited by Jayne Cubbage (Lexington Books)	In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America by Kabria Baumgartner (New York University Press)
Making Waves: French Feminisms and Their Legacies 1975-2015 edited by Margaret Atack (Liverpool University Press)	Mental Health and Illness of Women edited by Prabha Chandra (Springer)	New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture edited by Christine Kozikowski and Helen Scheck (Arc Humanities Press)
Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality: Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition by Jane Moore and William Moore (University of Illinois Press)	Queen Mothers: Articulating the Spirit of Black Women Teacher-Leaders by Rhonda Jeffries (Information Age Publishing)	Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed With Alcohol by Holly Whitaker (Dial Press)
Selling Sex in Kenya: Gendered Agency Under Neoliberalism by Eglė Česnulytė (Cambridge University Press)	The Guilty Feminist: You Don’t Have to Be Perfect to Overthrow the Patriarchy by Deborah Frances-White (Seal Press)	Working Girls: Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880-1919 by Patricia Tilburg (Oxford University Press)