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.

Fashioning China: Precarious Creativity and Women Designers in Shanzhai Culture by Sara Liao (Pluto Press)	Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia: The Cultural Politics of Women’s Food Practices edited by Nita Kumar and Usha Sanyai (Bloomsbury Academic)	Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy by Gabriele Koch (Stanford University Press)
Lift as You Climb: Women and the Art of Ambition by Viv Groskop (Bantam Press)	Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy by Alison Sharrock and Alison Keith (University of Toronto Press)	Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America by David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe (University of California Press)
The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World by Janice Kaplan (Dutton Books)	The Pope and the Pill: Sex, Catholicism and Women in Post-War England by David Geiringer (Manchester University Press)	The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson (University Press of Mississippi)
The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts by Slyvia Sellers-Garcia (Yale University Press)	Times of Mobility: Transnational Literature and Gender in Translation edited by Jasmina Lukic et al. (Central European University Press)	Women Against Cruelty: Protection of Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Diana Donald (Manchester University Press)
Women on the Frontline: British Servicewomen’s Path to Combat by Kathleen Sherit (Amberley Publishing)	Women Who Kill: Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era edited by Cristelle and David Roche (Bloomsbury Academic)	Wonder Woman: The Female Body and Popular Culture by Joan Ormrod (Bloomsbury Academic)