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.


Conscripted to Care:
Women on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Response

by Julia Smith
(McGill-Queens University Press)

Denied:
Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity

by Michelle J. Manno
(New York University Press)

Earning Their Wings:
The WASPs of World War II and the Fight for Veteran Recognition

by Sarah Parry Myers
(University of North Carolina Press)

Fair Play:
How Sports Shape the Gender Debates

by Katie Barnes
(St. Martin’s Press)

The Indebted Woman:
Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism

by Isabelle Guerin
(Stanford University Press)

Lethal Intersections:
Race, Gender, and Violence

by Patricia Hill Collins
(Polity)

Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History
by Daniel H. Usner Jr.
(Louisiana State University Press)

Politics, Religion and Gender:
A Study of Western Societies

by Bob McDowell
(Larsen and Keller Education)

Radegund:
The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen

by E.T. Dailey
(Oxford University Press)

Women in Jazz
by Sammy Stein
(8th House Publishing)

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