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.

AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective edited by Rosita Scerbo and Concetta Bondi (Lexington Books)	American Women’s History on Film by Rosanne Welch and Peg A. Lamphier (ABC-CLIO)	The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980 by Jennifer Helgren (University of Nebraska Press)
Crime and Deviance in the Colleges: Elite Student Excess and Sexual Abuse by Maurice Punch (Bristol University Press)	Dancing on the Sun Stone: Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz by Majorie Becker (University of New Mexico Press)	Divergent Women: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Female Deviance and Dissent edited by Lorraine Rumson and Abby Bentham (Emerald Publishing)
Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker by Jason McBride (Simon & Schuster)	Factory Girls: The Working Lives of Women and Children by Paul Chrystal (Pen and Sword History)	Feminism as World Literature edited by Robin Truth Goodman (Bloomsbury Academic)
Founding Mothers of the Indian Republic: Gender Politics of the Framing of the Constitution by Achyut Chetan (Cambridge University Press)	Gender Violence in the American Southwest (AD 1100-1300) by Debra L. Martin and Claira Ralston (Routledge)	Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty by Amanda Freeman and Lisa Dodson (The New Press)
Introduction to Women Studies: The Feminist Perspective by Sudha Menon (Society Publishing)	Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life by Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald (Princeton University Press)	LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives by Simon Joyce (Oxford University Press)
Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Coretta Pittman (University Press of Mississippi)	The Medium of Leonora Carrington: A Feminist Haunting in the Contemporary Arts by Catriona McAra (Manchester University Press)	Over-Sexualization of Black Women in America by Avery Washington (Happie Publishing)
Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400–1600 by Grace E. Coolidge (University of Nebraska Press)	Walking on Our Sacred Path: Indigenous American Women Affirming Identity and Activism edited by Isabel Dulfano (Peter Lang International Publishers)	Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land? Gender and Race in U.S. Self-Sufficiency Popular Culture by Valeria Padilla Carroll (University of Nebraska Press)