Recent Books That May Be 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.

Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

Cultivating Victory: The Women’s Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement by Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant (University of Pittsburgh Press)	Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity by Emily Matchar (Simon & Schuster)	No Mere Shadows: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico by Shirley Cushing Flint (University of New Mexico Press)
Ogling Ladies: Scopophilia in Medieval German Literature by Sandra Lindemann Summers (University Press of Florida)	Paths to Middle-Class Mobility Among Second-Generation Moroccan Immigrant Women in Israel by Beverly Mizrachi (Wayne State University Press)	Women in Old Norse Literature: Bodies, Words, and Power by Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir (Palgrave Macmillan)