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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.


Diasporic Womanist Sociology
edited by Sancha Doxilly Medwinter et al.
(Routledge)

Digging for Hope:
A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves
by R. Aida Hernandez Castillo
(University of Arizona Press)

Feminist Substances:
Plastics in Art of the 1960s and 1970s
by Charlotte Matter
(Manchester University Press)
 
 
 

Gender, Leadership, and Crisis:
Possibilities and Perils for Women Leaders
by Louise K. Davidson-Schmich et al.
(Oxford University Press)


Labor Journalism, Labor Feminism:
Women at the Federated Press
by Victoria Grieve
(University of Illinois Press)
 
 
 

Not Going Back:
Public Opinion on Abortion in Post-Dobbs America
by Laurel Elder et al.
(Temple University Press)

The Politics of Women’s Health Care in the United States
by Elizabetg Palley et al.
(Palgrave Macmillan)


Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism
by Alison Phipps
(Manchester University Press)
 
 
 

This Dark Night:
Emily Bronte, A Life
 by Deborah Lutz
(W.W. Norton)

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