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

Ӣ Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment by Mona Oikawa (University of Toronto Press)
Ӣ Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical by Stacy Wolf (Oxford University Press)
Ӣ Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet (Oxford University Press)
Ӣ Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity Among Asian Migrant Women edited by Pnina Werbner and Mark Johnson (Routledge)
Ӣ Disrupted Childhoods: Children of Women in Prison by Jane A. Siegel (Rutgers University Press)
Ӣ Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland by Katherine Glover (Boydell Press)
Ӣ Feminism and International Relations: Conversations About the Past, Present and Future edited by J. Ann Tickner and Laura Sjoberg (Routledge)
Ӣ Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America by Faye E. Dudden (Oxford University Press)
Ӣ Marion D. Cuyjet and Her Judimar School of Dance: Training Ballerinas in Black Philadelphia 1948-1971 by Melanye White Dixon (Edwin Mellen Press)
Ӣ Refugee Women in Britain and France by Gill Allwood and Khursheed Wadia (Manchester University Press)
Ӣ Religion and the State in Turkish Universities: The Headscarf Ban by Fatma Nevra Seggie (Palgrave Macmillan)
”¢ She’s Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn by Oneka LaBennett (New York University Press)
”¢ Soldiers’ Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television Since World War II by Yvonne Tasker (Duke University Press)
Ӣ The Mask and the Quill: Actress-Writers in Germany From Enlightenment to Romanticism by Mary Helen Dupree (Bucknell University Press)
”¢ Women and Heroin Addiction in China’s Changing Society by Huan Gao (Routledge)

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