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.

Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation by Oluwakemi M. Balogun (Stanford University Press)	Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Susan Watkins (Palgrave Macmillan)	Marxist Feminist Theories and Struggles Today: Essential Writings on Intersectionality, Postcolonialism and Ecofeminism edited by Nora Rathzel and Diana Mulinari (Zed Books)
Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché by Susanne Schmidt (University of Chicago Press)	Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa by Naminata Diabate (Duke University Press)	Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women by Lizzie Skurnick (Seal Press)
Rethinking the Age of Emancipation: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800–1918 edited by Martin Baumeister et al. (Berghahn Books)	The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America by Robert C. Plumb (Potomac Books)	Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology’s Fiercest Females by Kate Hodges (White Lion Publishing)
Women in the Irish Film Industry: Stories and Storytellers edited by Susan Liddy (Cork University Press)	Women’s Cinema in Contemporary Portugal edited by Mariana Liz and Hilary Owen (Bloomsbury Academic)	Women’s Work: Stories from Pioneering Women Shaping Our Workforce by Chris Crisman (Simon & Schuster)