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.

Breaking Out: An Indian Woman’s American Journey by Padma Desai (MIT Press)	Framing Sexual and Domestic Violence Through Language by Renate Klein (Palgrave Macmillan)	Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II by Farah Jasmine Griffin (Basic Civitas)
Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture by Linda Seidel (Lexington Books)	Portrayal of Women in Media and Literature by A.M. Nawale et al. (Authors Press)	Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions by Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (Cambridge University Press)
Reproductive Acts: Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film by Heather Latimer (McGill-Queen’s University Press)	Women in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Bonnie MacLachlan (Bloomsbury Academic)	Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia by Amy Aisen Kallander (University of Texas Press)