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.


Christine de Pizan, Empowering Women in Text and Image
by Charlotte Cooper-Davis
(Art Humanities Press)

Impressions from Paris:
Women Creatives in Interwar Years France

edited by Sylvie Eve Blum-Reid
(Vernon Press)

In the Company of Radical Women Writers
by Rosemary Hennessy
(University of Minnesota Press)

Post-Soviet Women:
New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment

edited by Ann-Mari Satre
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Reclaiming Time:
The Transformative Politics of Feminist Temporalities

by Tanya Ann Kennedy
(State University of New York)

Sex Matters:
Essays in Gender-Critical Philosophy

by Holly Lawford-Smith
(Oxford University Press)


Women, Stigma, and Desistance From Crime
by Gilly Sharpe
(Routledge)

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