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.

African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women’s Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse by Khannous Touria (Lexington Books)	Battered Women Doing Time: Injustice in the Criminal Justice System by Rachel Zimmer Schneider (Lynne Reinner)	Blazing the Trail: Essays by Leading Women in Science edited by Emma Ideal and Rhiannon Meharchand (CreateSpace)
Contemporary Women’s Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities by Zoe Skoulding (Palgrave Macmillan)	Improbable Women: Five Who Explored the Middle East by William Woods Cotterman (Syracuse University Press)	Mothering Without a Home: Attachment Representations and Behaviors of Homeless Mothers and Children by Ann G. Smolen (Jason Aronson)
Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions edited by Angela Dimitrakaki and Lara Perry (Liverpool University Press)	The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers by Sally Barr Ebest (Syracuse University Press)	The New Senior Woman: Reinventing the Years Beyond Mid-Life by Barbara M. Fleisher and Thelma Reese (Rowman & Littlefield)
The New Soft War on Women: How the Myth of Female Ascendance Is Hurting Women, Men-and Our Economy by Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett (Tarcher)	The Woman Suffrage Movement in America: A Reassessment by Corrine M. McConnaughy (Cambridge University Press)	Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey by Fred Minnick (Potomac Books)