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.

A Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist by Linda Janet Holmes (Praeger)	A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty’s Nonfiction and Photographs by Pearl Amelia McHaney (University Press of Mississippi)	Eminent Buddhist Women edited by Karma Lekshe Tsomo (State University of New York Press)
Fat Blame: How the War on Obesity Victimizes Women and Children by April Michelle Herndon (University Press of Kansas)	Gender, artWork and the Global Imperative: A Materialist Feminist Critique by Angela Dimitrakaki (Manchester University Press)	Management and Gender in Higher Education by Pat O’Connor (Manchester University Press)
Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis by Karsonya Wise Whitehead (University of South Carolina Press)	Pandoras Box: Looking Into the Conditions of Ageing Single Women in Mindanao by Jennifer M. Arbiol (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)	Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela by Marcia Ochoa (Duke University Press)
Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr (Simon & Schuster)	Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora: Black Women Writing and Performing by Mae G. Henderson (Oxford University Press)	Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom by Philip Eade (Picador)
The Defiant Life of Vera Figner: Surviving the Russian Revolution by Lynne Ann Hartnett (Indiana University Press)	The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport (St. Martin’s Press)	Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century by Fiona Ritchie (Cambridge University Press)
Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics by Kathryn J. Atwood (Chicago Review Press)	Women in Politics: Gender, Power and Development edited by Mariz Tadros (Zed Books)	Women, Mothers, Subjects: New Explorations of The Maternal edited by Maura Sheehy (Routledge)