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.

The Afro-Descendant Woman in Latin American Diasporic Visual Art by Rosita Scerbo (Routledge)	Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Complex Imaginings of Justice by Maya Hislop (University of South Carolina Press)	Desire to Serve: The Autobiography of Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson by Cheryl Brown Wattley (University of North Texas Press)
The Double Standard: A Feminist Critique of Feminist Social Science by Margrit Eicher (Routledge)	Freedom and Equality: Essays on Liberalism and Feminism by Clare Chambers (Oxford University Press)	The Georgia of the North: Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey by Hettie V. Williams (Rutgers University Press)
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation by Emily Van Duyne (W.W. Norton)	Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China’s New Social Order by Yuan Yang (Viking Books)	Sisters of Prometheus: Unmasking Women’s Achievements in Chemistry by Joao Paulo Andre (Springer)
Subjectified: Becoming a Sexual Subject by Suzannah Weiss (Polity)	To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement by Dara Baldwin (Beacon Press)	Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing by Marilyn Sanders Mobley (Temple University Press)