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.

Companion to Women’s and Gender Studies by Nancy A. Naples (Wiley-Blackwell)	Developing Sport for Women and Girls edited by Emma Sherry and Katie Rowe (Routledge)	Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463–1778 by Nhung Tuyet Tran (University of Hawaii Press)
Final Girls, Feminism and Popular Culture by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and Stacy Rusnak (Palgrave Macmillan)	Geographies of Urban Female Labor and Nationhood in Spanish Culture, 1880–1975 by Mar Soria (University of Nebraska Press)	International Investment Law and Gender Equality: Stabilization Clauses and Foreign Investment by Sangwani Patrick Ng’ambi and Kanga-Musole George Chisanga (Routledge)
Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: Early Adventures of Working Women, the Professional Life and the Glass Ceiling by Jane Robinson (Doubleday)	Life In A Box: Traveller. Antiques Dealer. Mother. Model. Iconoclast. by Sarah Jane Adams (Murdoch Books)	The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese Societies by Natalia Kinstantinovskaia (Palgrave Macmillan)
Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music by Tes Slominski (Wesleyan University Press)	Unequal Partners: In Search of Transnational Catholic Sisterhood by Casey Ritchie Clevenger (University of Chicago Press)	Women of the Vatican: Female Power in a Male World by Kynda Telford (Amberley Publishing)