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.

Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom From Activists Who Built a Movement by April Young Bennett (Brown Blackwell Books)	Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women by Julia Nitz (Louisiana State University Press)	Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel edited by Anastasiya Lyubas (Academic Studies Press)
From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 by Alicia Gutierrez-Romine (University of Nebraska Press)	I Took Her Name: Lessons From My Journey Into Vulnerability, Authenticity, and Feminism by Shu Matsuo Post (Houndstooth Press)	Icons of Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination by William G. Witt (Baylor University Press)
Maria Czaplicka: Gender, Shamanism, Race by Grazyna Kubica (University of Nebraska Press)	Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity by Patriza Gentile (University of British Columbia Press)	She Animates: Gendered Soviet and Russian Animation by Lora Mjolsness and Michele Leigh (Academic Studies Press)
The Valkyries’ Loom: The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic by Michele Hayeur Smith (University Press of Florida)	Women, Gender and the Legacy of Slavery and Indenture edited by Farzana Gounder et al. (Routledge)	Women on the River of Life: A Fifty-Year Study of Adult Development by Ravenna M. Helson and Valory Mitchell (University of California Press)