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.

Creative Writing With Women in Prison: Narratives of Haunting by Rosalchen Whitecross (Bristol University Press)	Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales: ‘For Wives Alone’ by Jennifer Aston (Hart Publishing)	The Gloria Wekker Reader edited by Chandra Frank et al. (Duke University Press)
Greta Garbo and the Rise of the Modern Woman by Scott Reisfield (Vendela Publishing)	Handbook of Media and Gender: Perspectives and Findings of Feminist Communication and Media Studies  edited by Johanna Dorer et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)	A History of Scottish Witches: The Devil’s Handmaidens by Mary W. Craig (Pen and Sword History)
Judith Butler and Film: The Good Egalitarian, the Bad Feminist and the Ugly Others by Temmuz Sureyya Gurbuz (Bloomsbury Academic)	Kurdish Women’s Transnational Resistance: Revolutionary Politics in Everyday Life by Nisa Goksei et al. (University of Washington Press)	Mom, Unfiltered: Maternal Mental Health and Finding Freedom Through Motherhood by Leah Kim (Bloomsbury Academic)
Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature by Chad Benito Infante (University of Minnesota Press)	Neoliberal Feminism and the Discourse of Self-Improvement by Giuliana Ferri (Routledge)	Scottish Women: A Documentary History, 1780-1914 edited by Esther Breiten Bach et al. (Edinburgh University Press)
Women and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1775–1925 by Jillmarie Murphy (Routledge)	Women, Religion and Culture in Spain and Latin America, 1900-2000 edited by Ricki O’Rawe and Eamon McCarthy (Liverpool University Press)	Women, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial India: The Begams of Awadh by Nicholas J. Abbott (Edinburgh University Press)