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 Battling Pornography: The American Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement, 1976-1986 by Carolyn Bronstein (Cambridge University Press)
Ӣ Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In by Jasmine Rault (Ashgate Publishing)
Ӣ For Women Only in the Workplace: What You Need to Know About How Men Think at Work by Shaunti Feldhahn (Multnomah Books)
Ӣ Francophone Women Writers: Feminisms, Postcolonialisms, Cross-Cultures by Eric Touya de Marenne (Lexington Books)
Ӣ Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History by Teresa Berger (Ashgate Publishing)
”¢ Higglers in Kingston: Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica by Winnifred Brown-Glaude (Vanderbilt University Press)
Ӣ Language, Gender and Feminism: Theory, Methodology and Practice by Sara Mills and Louise Mullany (Routledge)
”¢ Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appalachian Women’s Literacies by Erica Abrams Locklear (Ohio University Press)
Ӣ Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry (Yale University Press)
Ӣ The Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860-1945 by Victoria Olwell (University of Pennsylvania Press)
”¢ The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott’s Critical Feminism edited by Judith Butler and Elizabeth Weed (Indiana University Press)
Ӣ What You Will: Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social Space by Kathryn Schwarz (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Ӣ Women and the Liberal Democrats: Representing Women by Elizabeth Evans (Manchester University Press)
Ӣ Women in Management Worldwide by Marilyn J. Davidson and Ronald J. Burke (Gower Publishing)

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