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.

Ain’t I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon by Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall (University of Illinois Press)	Building a New Leadership Ladder: Transforming Male-Dominated Organizations to Support Women on the Rise by Carol J. Geffner (MIT Press)	California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal by Monique McDade (University of Nebraska Press)
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples From Destruction by Lynne Olson (Random House)	The Experiences of Black Women Diversity Practitioners in Historically White Institutions edited by Tristen Brenae Johnson (IGI Global)	Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez (Hanover Square Press)
Feminism and Protest Camps: Entanglements, Critiques and Re-Imaginings edited by Catherine Eschle and Alison Bartlett (Bristol University Press)	Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women by John T. Maddox IV (University of Wales Press)	Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio: Family, Politics, Gender and Reputation in (and Beyond) Renaissance Bologna by Elizabeth Bernhardt (Amsterdam University Press)
Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States by Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller (Cambridge University Press)	The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality by Angel Saini (Beacon Press)	Reading Gender in Irish and Literary Studies: Essays for Patricia Coughlan edited by Anne Fogarty and Tina O’Toole (Cork University Press)
Remarkable Women of the Second World War: A Collection of Untold Stories by Victoria Panton Bacon (The History Press)	Sex and Gender in the Pacific edited by Angela Kelly-Hanku et al. (Routledge)	A Woman’s Place? Challenging Values in 1960s Irish Women’s Magazines by Ciara Meehan (Manchester University Press)
Women and Politics: Global Lives in Focus edited by Malliga Och (ABC-CLIO)	Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 by Giusi Russo (University of Nebraska Press)	Women in the Ottoman Empire: A Social and Political History by Suraia Faroghi (I.B. Tauris)
Women, Peace and Security in Military Operations edited by Andree-Anne Melancon and Max Thompson (Howgate Publishing)	Women’s Contributions to Development in West Africa: Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives edited by Kelly Ann Krawczyk and Bridgett A. King (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women’s Literary Education, c. 1690–1850 edited by Louise Joy and Jessica Lim (Edinburgh University Press)