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 Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis (W.W. Norton)	Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism by Elnav Rabinovitch-Fox (University of Illinois Press)	Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s by Rachel Garfield (Bloomsbury Academic)
Gender, Homicide, and the Politics of Responsibility: Fatal Relationships by Ashlee Gore (Routledge)	Shaping Tradition: Women’s Roles in Ceremonial Rituals of the Agwagune by David Uru Iyam (University of Wisconsin Press)	The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (University of Illinois Press)
The Power of Women: A Doctor’s Journey of Hope and Healing by Denis Mukwege (Flatiron Books)	The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History by Ilise S. Carter (Prometheus)	The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)member by Cynthia Dillard (Beacon Press)
University Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in Canada by Sara Z. MacDonald (McGill-Queen’s University Press)	Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh by Nayma Qayum (Rutgers University Press)	Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing edited by Leonardo Arriola et al. (Oxford University Press)