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 Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity by Karen Bloom Gevirtz (University of California Press)	Domestic Work in Postcolonial Tanzania: Gender, Learning and Unlearning by Paula Mählck (Bloomsbury Academic)	Gender, Sex and the Law by Susan Edwards (Routledge)
Hear Our Stories: Campus Sexual Violence, Intersectionality, and How We Build a Better University by Jessica C. Harris (Stanford University Press)	Hounded: Women, Harms and the Gender Wars by Jenny Lindsay (Polity)	Islamic Feminism: Hermeneutics and Activism by Mulki Al-Sharmani (Bloomsbury Academic)
It’s What You Do Next: The Fall and Rise of Nashville’s First Female Mayor by Megan Barry (Matt Holt)	Revolt Against Theocracy: The Mahsa Movement and the Feminist Uprising in Iran by Farhad Khosrokhavar (Polity)	Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy That the History Books Left Out by Jennifer Ashley Tepper (Applause)