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 American Women Educators: A Critical Examination of Their Pedagogies, Educational Ideas, and Activism from the Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century edited by Karen A. Johnson et al. (R&L Education)	Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage by Trisha Franzen (University of Illinois Press)	Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India by Sarah Pinto (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Gender, Conflict and Peace in Kashmir: Invisible Stakeholders by Seema Shekhawat (Cambridge University Press)	Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease by Janet K. Shim (New York University Press)	Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture edited by Maja Bajac-Carter et al. (Rowman & Littlefield)
Hillary Clinton in the News: Gender and Authenticity in American Politics by Shawn J. Parry-Giles (University of Illinois Press)	Mining Coal and Undermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West by Jessica Smith Rolston (Rutgers University Press)	Once I Too Had Wings: The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908–1918 edited by Steven Cox (Ohio University Press)
Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South by Blain Roberts (University of North Carolina Press)	Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics by Linda Mizejewski (University of Texas Press)	Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China by Kelvin E.Y. Low (University of British Columbia Press)
The Dean’s Bible: Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality by Angie Klink (Purdue University Press)	The Ex-Prisoner’s Dilemma: How Women Negotiate Competing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance by Andrea M. Leverentz (Rutgers University Press)	Underserved Women of Color, Voice, and Resistance: Claiming a Seat at the Table edited by Sonja M. Brown Givens and Keisha Edwards Tassie (Lexington Books)
Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain by Margaret E. Boyle (University of Toronto Press)	Walking Prey: How America’s Youth Are Vulnerable to Sex Slavery by Holly Austin Smith (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women Attorneys and the Changing Workplace: High Hopes, Mixed Outcomes by Phyllis Kitzerow (Lynne Rienner Publishers)