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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.


A Conditional Embrace:
Black Queer Feminism in Performance
by Kristyl D. Tift
(Ohio State University Press)

Anna Murray Douglass:
Biography of a Revolutionary
edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier
(Edinburgh University Press)

Becoming Orthodox:
Women, Religion, and Ethnicity in the American South
by Elena V. Kravchenko
(Fordham University Press)
 
 
 

Double Crossings:
Feminism, Race, the Popular
by Cora Kaplan
(Edinburgh University Press)
 
 
 

Envoy to the Archives:
Ruth Anna Fisher and Hidden Transatlantic History
by William L. Fox
(University of Massachusetts Press)

Gender, Technology and Work Engagement
by K.G. Priyashantha
(Routledge)
 
 
 

Her America:
Eight Women Who Transformed the Nation
by Heather B. Moore
(Shadow Mountain)
 
 
 

Rage in Caribbean Women’s Writing
by Nicole King and Ana Nenadovic
(Cambridge University Press)
 
 
 

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