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.

A Feminist Reading of Debt by Luci Cavallero and Veronica Gago (Pluto Press)	An Artist in Abydos: The Life and Letters of Myrtle Broome by Lee Young and Pater Lacovara (American University in Cairo Press)	Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes by Lorraine Ryan (Routledge)
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective edited by Sarah E. Owens and Margaret E. Boyle (University of Toronto Press)	Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story by Mazie K. Hirono (Viking Books)	Is Austerity Gendered? by Diana Perrons (Polity)
Patterns of Women’s Leadership in Early Christianity edited by Joan E. Taylor and Ilaria L.E. Ramelli (Oxford University Press)	Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature by Jenna Grace Sciuto (University Press of Mississippi)	Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet by Wendy K.Z. Anderson (University Press of Mississippi)
Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras by Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda (University of Texas Press)	Strange Situation: A Mother’s Journey Into the Science of Attachment by Bethany Saltman (Ballantine Books)	The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr (Brazos Press)
Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton by Gail Crowther (Gallery Books)	Transforming State Responses to Feminicide: Women’s Movements, Law and Criminal Justice Institutions in Brazil by Fiona Macauley (Emerald Publishing)	Women’s Food Matters: Stirring the Pot by Vicki A. Swinbank (Palgrave Macmillan)