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 Salem Witch:
Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse

by Daniel A. Gagnon
(Westholme Publishing)

Black Feminist Sociology:
Perspectives and Praxis

by Zaklya Luna and Whitney Pirtle
(Routledge)

Female Religious Authority in Shi’i Islam:
Past and Present

edited by Mirjam Kunkler and Devin J. Stewart
(Edinburgh University Press)

Her Cold War:
Women in the U.S. Military, 1945-1980

by Tanya L. Roth
(University of North Carolina Press)

Relation and Resistance:
Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora

edited by Sailaja Krishnamurti and Becky R. Lee
(McGill-Queens University Press)

The First Fifteen:
How Asian American Women Became Federal Judges

by Susan Oki Mollway
(Rutgers University Press)

Transforming Girls:
The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence

by Julie Pfeiffer
(University Press of Mississippi)

Transnational Africana Women’s Fictions
by Cheryl Sterling
(Routledge)

Women and Leadership Development in College
edited by Jennifer M. Pigza et al.
(Stylus Publishing)

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