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.

Action Heroines in the 21st Century: Sisters in Arms edited by Fran Pheasant-Kelly and Christa Van Raalte (Edinburgh University Press)	British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel by Anne Wetherilt (Palgrave Macmillan)	Femicide: Problems, Possibilities, and Prevention edited by Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Sandra Walklate (Emerald Publishing)
The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President by Eden Collinsworth (Doubleday)	Mother’s Milk: Essays on Child-Rearing, the Household, and the Making of Jewish Culture by Deena Aranoff (Indiana University Press)	Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence by Alisa Kessel (Oxford University Press)
Rebel Girl and the Godfather: New York City’s Italians and the Fight for Civil Rights by Jeffrey Louis Decker (State University of New York Press)	Therapeutic Community for Women Prisoners: Re-Imagining Rehabilitation and the Loss of Liberty by Elaine Player and Ealine Genders (Routledge)	Victorian Legs: Degeneracy, Disability, Decorum, Desire by Clayton Tarr (Manchester University Press)
Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Devoney Looser (St. Martin’s Press)	Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence by Julie Dolan (Bloomsbury Academic)	The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Martin Austin-Nesvig (Cambridge University Press)