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.

Collateral Damage: Women Write About War edited by Barbara Mujica (University of Virginia Press)	Copper Lady: Life in the Met and Lords by Jenny Hilton (Amberly Publishing)	Irma Stern: African in Europe – European in Africa by Sean O’Toole (Prestel)
Japanese Women in Leadership edited by Yoshie Tomozumi Nakamure et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)	Making the Right Choice: Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka by Asha L. Abeyasekera (Rutgers University Press)	New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World edited by Ronnie Ancona and Georgi Tsouvala (Oxford University Press)
Raising the Roof: Women Architects Who Broke Through the Glass Ceiling by Agata Toromanoff (Prestel)	Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China by Y. Yvon Wang (Cornell University Press)	Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America by Julie DiCaro (Dutton)
Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick (Verso)	The Fallen Veil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France by Raisa Adah Rexer (University of Pennsylvania Press)	The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories edited by Janell Bobson (Routledge)
The Use of Victim Impact Statements in Sentencing for Sexual Offences: Stories of Strength by Rhiannon Davies and Lorana Bartels (Routledge)	Trafficking With Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000 by Martha Rampton (Cornell University Press)	Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 edited by Misty Krueger (Bucknell University Press)
Unbound: A Woman’s Guide to Power by Kasia Urbaniak (TarcherPerigee)	Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna by Babette Bohn (Pennsylvania State University Press)	Women in Tourism in Asian Muslim Countries edited by Natasa Slak Valek and Hamed Almuhrzi (Springer)