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.

All the Rage: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty: A History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power: 1860-1960 by Virginia Nicholson (Pegasus Books)	Broken: Women’s Stories of Intimate and Institutional Harm and Repair (Volume 12) by Lisa Young Larance (University of California Press)	The Feminist Pacific: International Women’s Networks in Hawai’i, 1820–1940 by Rumi Yasutake (Columbia University Press)
Gender Violence by Philip Wolny (Brightpoint Press)	How We Write Now: Living With Black Feminist Theory by Jennifer C. Nash (Duke University Press)	Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women by Ellen Atlanta (St. Martin’s Press)
Religion and Women in India: Gender, Faith, and Politics, 1780s-1980s by Tanika Sarkar (State University of New York Press)	Rights of the Girl Child in India by Nitu Kumari (Routledge)	Snapping Beans: Voices of a Black Queer Lesbian South by Jayme N. Canty (State University of New York Press)
Social Representations of Gender Violence in Italy: Blaming Women in the Courts and the Press by Flaminia Sacca (Palgrave Macmillan)	Tundra Passages: History and Gender in the Russian Far East by Petra Rethmann (BiblioRossica)	Women As Writing Subjects in High Qing China: Reconfiguring the Poetics of Feminine Propriety by Chengjuam Sun (Brill Academic Press)