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.

Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 by Carole A. Myscofski (University of Texas Press)	Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 edited by Theresa Strouth Gaul (University of Nebraska Press)	Education Feminism: Classic and Contemporary Readings edited by Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon et al. (State University of New York Press)
Extraordinary, Ordinary Women: Questions of Expatriate Identity in Contemporary American Paris by Kelly Rogers (University Press of America)	Femininity, Time, and Feminist Art by Clare Johnson (Palgrave Macmillan)	Invisible Student Scientists: How Graduate School Science and Engineering Programs Shortchange Black, Hispanic, and Women Students by Robert Leslie Fisher (University Press of America)
Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa: Gender, Media, and Resistance by Kimberly Wedeven Segall (Syracuse University Press)	Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras edited by Elena Woodacre (Palgrave Macmillan)	Reading The Irish Woman: Studies in Cultural Encounter and Exchange, 1714-1960 by Gerardine Meaney et al. (Liverpool University Press)
The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence by Jennifer Higginbotham (Edinburgh University Press)	Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon by Eboni Marshall Turman (Palgrave Macmillan)	Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims by Adriana Mendez Rodenas (Bucknell University Press)
Women and War in Rwanda: Gender, Media and the Representation of Genocide by Georgina Holmes (I.B. Tauris)	Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010: Body, Time and Locale by David Kennedy and Christine Kennedy (Liverpool University Press)	Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas edited by Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola (State University of New York Press)