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 Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist by Margaret C. Jones (Bloomsbury Academic)	Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House…Yet by Ali Vitali (Dey Street Books)	Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources by Inna Perheentupa (Bristol University Press)
Gendered Justice? How Women’s Attempts to Cope With, Survive, or Escape Domestic Abuse Can Drive Them Into Crime by Jo Roberts (Emerald Publishing)	Grete Meisel-Hess: The New Woman and the Sexual Crisis by Helga Thorson (Camden House)	Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy edited by Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn et al. (Rutgers University Press)
Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II by Catherine Musemeche (William Morrow)	The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege by Alison Melnick Dyer (University of Washington Press)	Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China by Aviva Xue and Kate Rose (Bloomsbury Academic)
Woman’s Worth: Sexual Economics and the World of Women by Lisa Leghorn and Kathrine Parker (Routledge)	Women in the Work of Woody Allen by Martin Hall (Amsterdam University Press)	Working For Victory? Images of Women in the First World War, 1914–18 by Diana Condell and Jean Liddiard (Routledge)