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.


Blurred Boundaries:
Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor

edited by Jessica Edens McCrary and Lynee Lewis Gailet
(University of South Carolina Press)

Central American Women in Diaspora:
Testimonies of the Generations

by Karina Alma
(University of Arizona Press)
 
 
 

The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture

by Anne-Marie Evans
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Global Hair, Inequality and Women’s Worth

by Riitta Hogbacka
(Palgrave Macmillan)
 
 
 

Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism

edited by Elaine B. Richardson et al.
(University of California Press)
 
 
 

The Munitionettes:
The Canary Girls of the Great War

by Sandra Gold-Wood
(Pen and Sword Press)
 
 
 

Race Literature:
Women Contributors to the A.M.E. Church Review, 1884–1924

by Cynthia Lee Patterson
(University Press of Mississippi)

The Selena Reader:
Remembering the Queen of Tejano

edited by Larissa M. Mercado-Lopez and Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa
(University of Texas Press)

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