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.

Becoming a Mother: An Australian History by Carla Pascoe Leahy (Manchester University Press)	The ‘Cursus Laborum‘ of Roman Women: Social and Medical Aspects of the Transition from Puberty to Motherhood by Anna Tatarkiewicz (Bloomsbury Academic)	The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia by Tamika Y. Nunley (University of North Carolina Press)
Imaginaries of Domesticity and Women’s Work in Germany Around 1800 by Karin A. Wurst (Camden House)	In This Place Called Prison: Women’s Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment by Rachel Ellis (University of California Press)	The Life and Times of Elizabeth Upham Yates: A Crusader for Women’s Suffrage, Temperance, and Missionary Work by Shannon M. Risk (Lexington Books)
Lordship and Governance by the Countesses of Boulogne, 1160–1260 by Heather J. Tanner (Arc Humanities Press)	Rape, Agency, and Carceral Solutions: From Criminal Justice to Social Justice by Leland G. Spencer (University of Massachusetts Press)	Taking Pace: Building Histories of Queer and Feminist Art in North America by Erin Silver (Manchester University Press)
Virgin Crossing Borders: Feminist Resistance and Solidarity in Translation by Emek Ergun (University of Illinois Press)	The Wild Woman of Cincinnati: Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War by Michael D. Pierson (Louisiana State University Press)	Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000 – 1500: Debating Identities, Creating Communities edited by Julie Hotchin and Jirki Thibaut (Boydell Press)