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.

Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity by Gemma Commane (Bloomsbury Academic)	Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class: Making Sense of Women’s Practices, Perceptions and Tastes by Katherine Appleford (Routledge)	Gender and Agriculture in Turkey: Women, Globalization and Food Production by Emine Erdogan (I.B. Tauris)
Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace by David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press)	Made Up: How the Beauty Industry Manipulates Consumers, Preys on Women’s Insecurities, and Promotes Unattainable Beauty Standards by Martha Laham (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces by Sarah Carter (University of British Columbia Press)
Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of Black Arts Movement Theater and Performance by La Donna Forsgren (Northwestern University Press)	Witch Hunt: A Traveler’s Guide to the Power and Persecution of the Witch by Kristen J. Sollee (Weiser Books)	Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba‘thist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968-2003 by Hawraa Al-Hassan (Edinburgh University Press)