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.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath edited by Anita Helle et al. (Bloomsbury Academic)	Childfree Across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children edited by Davinia Thornley (Rutgers University Press)	China’s Grandmothers: Gender, Family, and Ageing from Late Qing to Twenty-First Century by Diana Lary (Cambridge University Press)
Entry Lessons: The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their Futures After Incarceration by Jorja Leap (Beacon Press)	A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective by Françoise Verges (Pluto Press)	Gender Inequalities in Africa’s Mining Policies: A Study of Inequalities, Resource Conflict and Sustainability by Francis Onditi (Springer)
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet by Nell McShane Wulfhart (Doubleday)	The Pragmatic Ideal: Mary Field Parton and the Pursuit of a Progressive Society by Mark Douglas McGarvie (Northern Illinois University Press)	Prisoners of War and Local Women in Europe and the United States, 1914-1956: Consorting with the Enemy edited by Matthias Reiss and Brian K. Feltman (Palgrave Macmillan)
A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America by Jennifer H. Lansbury (University of Arkansas Press)	Taking Travel Home: The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750–1830 by Emma Gleadhill (Manchester University Press)	Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History by Jason Barrett-Fox (Ohio State University Press)
Veronica Franco in Dialogue by Marilyn Migiel (University of Toronto Press)	Why Would I Be Married Here? Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India by Reena Kukreja (Cornell University Press)	Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia by Susan H. Brandt (University of Pennsylvania Press)