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.

Difficult Women: An Imperfect History of Feminism by Helen Lewis (Jonathan Cape)	Ellen N. La Motte: Nurse, Writer, Activist by Lea Williams (Manchester University Press)	Explorations in Women, Rights, and Religions edited by Morny Joy (Equinox)
Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History by Elana Levins (Duke University Press)	Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall (Viking Books)	Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power: Matilda Plantagenet and Her Sisters by Jitske Jasperse (Arc Humanities Press)
North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language edited by Lisa Sewell and Kazim Ali (Wesleyan University Press)	Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature by Eden Wales Freedman (University Press of Mississippi)	Scarlet and Black, Volume Two: Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945 edited by Kendra Boyd et al. (Rutgers University Press)
Sexual Harassment: A Reference Handbook by Merril D. Smith (ABC-CLIO)	Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote by Ellen Carol DuBois (Simon & Schuster)	The Illustrated Feminist: 100 Years of Suffrage, Strength, and Sisterhood in America by Aura Lewis (Abrams)
The Laywoman Project: Remaking Catholic Womanhood in the Vatican II Era by Mary J. Henhold (University of North Carolina Press)	The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President by Jill Wine-Banks (Henry Holt & Co.)	Why Who Cleans Counts: What Housework Tells Us About American Family Life by Shannon Davis and Theodore Greenstein (Policy Press)