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.

Female Smugglers of the 19th Century by Dee Gordon (Pen and Sword History)	First-Wave Feminism and Women’s Civil and Political Rights in South America by Carmen Diana Deere (Routledge)	Imperial and Royal Child Brides in Byzantium and Beyond by Cecily Hennessy (Arc Humanities Press)
In Flaming Letters: Lucia Pitts, Poet of the Six Triple Eight edited by Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis (University of Virginia Press)	Mourning and Mobilization in the Americas: The Affective Politics of Women Killings by Lydia Huerta Moreno (State University of New York Press)	Pleasure, Play, and Politics: A History of Humor in U.S. Feminism by Kirsten Leng (University of Nebraska Press)
The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film, 1959–1973 by Sophie A. Jones (Edinburgh University Press)	Routledge Handbook of Gender and Corruption edited by Sope Williams et al. (Routledge)	Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film by Leslie Barnes (Edinburgh University Press)
Society of Women Engineers Legends edited by Cecilia D. Craig et al. (Springer)	Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts by Brad Bigelow (Bison Books)	Women’s Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1400–1800: An Anthology edited by Sarah Prescott et al. (Cambridge University Press)