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.

Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt by Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn Claire Higgins (Polity)	The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies by Amy Erdman Farrell (Routledge)	The Defiant Optimist: Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women by Durreen Shahnaz (Broadleaf Books)
Learning to Succeed in Science: Stories of South Asian Women in Britain by Saima Salehjee and Mike Watts (Bloomsbury Academic)	Money, Power, Respect: How Women in Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism by Macaela MacKenzie (Seal Press)	New Ways of Solidarity With Korean Comfort Women: Comfort Women and What Remains edited by Nusta Carranza Ko (Palgrave Macmillan)
The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States by Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour (Columbia University Press)	Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice by Amber Knight and Joshua Miller (Oxford University Press)	Violence Never Heals: The Lifelong Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Immigrant Women by Allison Bloom (New York University Press)