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.

Fashionability, Exhibition Culture and Gender Politics: Fair Women by Meaghan Clarke (Routledge)	Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of Matchmaking Between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China by Chigusa Yamaura (Cornell University Press)	Midwifery from the Tudors to the Twenty-First Century: History, Politics and Safe Practice in England by Julia Allison (Routledge)
Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices edited by Maha Bashri and Sameera Ahmed (Lexington Books)	Reframing Syrian Refugee Insecurity Through a Feminist Lens: The Case of Lebanon by Jessy Abouarab (Lexington Books)	The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration by Aya Gruber (University of California Press)
The Saigon Sisters: Privileged Women in the Resistance by Patricia D. Norland (Northern Illinois University Press)	Treating Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Clinician’s Guide edited by Charlynn Small and Mazella Fuller (Routledge)	Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul by Sertac Sehlikoglu (Syracuse University Press)