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.

American Women Report World War I: An Anthology of Their Journalism by Chris Dubbs (University of North Texas Press)	Calila: The Later Novels of Carmen Martín Gaite by Joan L. Brown (Bucknell University Press)	Conflict, Civil Society, and Women’s Empowerment: Insights from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip by Ibrahim Natil (Emerald Publishing)
Empowering Mindfulness for Women by Leigh Burrows (Routledge)	Equal Representation Without Legislation: Gender, Power, and Institutions in Sweden by Lenita Freiddenvall (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction by Julie Rak (McGill-Queens University Press)
Fighting Sports, Gender, and the Commodification of Violence: Heavy Bag Heroines by Victoria E. Collins (Lexington Books)	Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg (Harvard Business Review Press)	Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay by Shanna Greene Benjamin (University of North Carolina Press)
Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design by Kristina Wilson (Princeton University Press)	Paving the Way: The First American Women Law Professors by Herma Hill Kay (University of California Press)	Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence by Nimmi Gowrinathan (Beacon Press)
Re-Imagining Black Women: A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics by Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd (New York University Press)	She Speaks Her Anger: Myths and Conversations of Gimi Women: A Psychological Ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Gillian Gillison (Palgrave Macmillan)	Still a Mother: Noncustodial Mothers, Gendered Institutions, and Social Change by Jackie Krasas (Cornell University Press)
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America by Jenifer L. Barclay (University of Illinois Press)	The Paradox of Diversity In Public & Private Sectors: Reflections of an African-American Female Educator by Kehinde I. Olowoyeye (Lulu Press)	Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South by Candice Bailey (University of Illinois Press)
Wives Not Slaves: Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions by Kirsten Sword (University of Chicago Press)	Women, Film, and Law: Cinematic Representations of Female Incarceration by Suzanne Bouclin (University of British Columbia Press)	Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre by Dara Rossman Regaignon (Ohio State University Press)