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.

Even the Women Are Leaving: Migrants Making Mexican America, 1890–1965 by Larisa L. Vloz (University of California Press)	A Girl’s Life in New Orleans: The Diary of Ella Grunewald, 1884–1886 by Hans C. Rasmussen (Louisiana State University Press)	The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-Century America by Nick Ripatrazone (Fortress Press)
Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment edited by Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg (Edward Elgar)	Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women’s Graphic Narratives by Victoria Aarons (Wayne State University Press)	Motherhood, Childhood, and Parenting in an Age of Education by Maryellen Schaub (Routledge)
Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty by Victoria Bateman (Polity)	Prostitution in Twentieth-Century Europe edited by Sonja Dolinsek and Siobhan Hearne (Routledge)	They Run with Surprising Swiftness: The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain by Peter Radford (University of Virginia Press)