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.

Asian American Women’s Popular Literature: Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging by Pamela Thoma (Temple University Press)	Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century by Clare Debenham (I.B. Tauris)	 Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland edited by Sarah Sheehan and Ann Dooley (Palgrave Macmillan)
Dilemmas of Adulthood: Japanese Women and the Nuances of Long-Term Resistance by Nancy Rosenberger (University of Hawaii Press)	Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World by Alison Weir (Ballantine Books)	 In Duty Bound: Men, Women, and the State in Upper Canada, 1783-1841 by J.K. Johnson (McGill Queens University Press)
More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures by Susan J. Carroll and Kira Sanbonmatsu (Oxford University Press)	Party Politics, Religion, and Women’s Leadership: Lebanon in Comparative Perspective by Fatima Sbaity Kasse (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia by Amy Aisen Kallender (University of Texas Press)