Recent Books 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. As an Amazon Associate, WIAReport will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases.

Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.


A History of Women in Piracy:
Life Under the Black Flag

by Roxanne Gregory
(Pen and Sword History)
 
 
 

Bold Breaks:
Japanese Women and Literary Narratives of Divorce

by Anne Sokolsky
(University of Hawai’i Press)

Challenges for Chinese Women in the Early Twenty-First Century

by Gordana Malesevic
(World Scientific Publishing)

The Collected Works of Ruth Whitman:
Personas and Personhood

edited by David Houghton
(Wayne State University Press)
 
 
 

Contemporary Gender Formations in India:
Conformity, Dissent and New Space-Time Continuums

edited by Nandini Dhar and Peerzada Raouf Ahmad
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Dressing for England:
Fashion and Nationalism in Victorian Novels

by Amy L. Montz
(State University of New York Press)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Reclaiming Clio:
Making American Women’s History, 1900-2000

by Jennifer Banning Tomas
(University of North Carolina Press)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Women in the History of Language Learning and Teaching

edited by Sabine Doff et al.
(Routledge)

Women Writers of Huizhou:
Imaginaries of Space and Place in Qing China

by Binbin Yang
(University of Washington Press)

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