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.


Dancing Transnational Feminisms:
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice

edited by Ananya Chatterjea et al.
(University of Washington Press)

Doing Feminisms in the Academy
edited by Radhika Govinda et al.
(Zubaan Books)

Feminisms With Chinese Characteristics
edited by Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao
(USYRC)

If This Is a Woman:
Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust

edited by Denisa Nestakova et al.
(Academic Studies Press)

Intimate Connections:
Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s High Mountains

by Anna-Maria Walter
(Rutgers University Press)

Investing in the Educational Success of Black Women and Girls
edited by Lori D. Patton et al.
(Stylus Publishing)

Novel Approaches to Lesbian History
by Linda Garber
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Science by Women:
Stories From Careers in STEM

edited by Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi
(Springer)

Women in Wartime:
Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century

by Paula R. Backscheiedr
(Johns Hopkins University Press)

Women’s Work and Child Welfare in the Third World
edited by Joanne Leslie and Michael Paolisso
(Routledge)

Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939
by Allison Schachter
(Northwestern University Press)

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