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.

Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music by Ann Werner (Bloomsbury Academic)	Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective: Institutions, Labour and Social Networks, 16th to 20th Centuries edited by Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women by Barbie Latza Nadeau (Penguin Books)
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon and Humanitarian by Helen Rappaport (Pegasus Books)	Jewish Women and the Defense of Palestine by Meir Chazan (State University of New York Press)	Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power by Eleanor Herman (St. Martin’s Press)
The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and Her Path to Power by Pnina Lahav (Princeton University Press)	Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America by Felicity M. Turner (University of North Carolina Press)	Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women’s Association and Family Law by Sharon Thompson (Hart Publishing)
The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture edited by Emma Rees (Routledge)	Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell (St. Martin’s Press)	Why Men Hurt Women and Other Reflections on Love, Violence and Masculinity by Kopano Ratele (Wits University Press)
Women Writing Trauma in the Global South by Annemarie Pabel (Routledge)	Working 9 to 5: A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie by Ellen Cassedy (Chicago Review Press)	You Should Smile More: How to Dismantle Gender Bias in the Workplace by Dawn Hudson et al. (City Point Press)