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.

A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia by Amelie Le Renard (Stanford University Press)	Feminism as Life’s Work: Four Modern American Women Through Two World Wars by Mary K. Trigg (Rutgers University Press)	Feminized Counsel and the Literature of Advice in England, 1380-1500 by Misty Schieberie (Brepols Publishers)
Iraqi Women in Denmark: Ritual Performance and Belonging in Everyday Life by Marianne Holm Pedersen (Manchester University Press)	Knowing Victims: Feminism, Agency and Victim Politics in Neoliberal Times by Rebecca Stringer (Routledge)	New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics: The Centennial of the End of the Qing Dynasty edited by Ya-chen Chen (Routledge)
Performing Anti-Slavery: Activist Women on Antebellum Stages by Gay Gibson Cima (Cambridge University Press)	Supporting the Well Being of Girls: An Evidence-Based School Programme by Tina Rae and Elizabeth Piggott (Routledge)	The French Screen Goddess: Film Stardom and the Modern Woman in 1930s France by Jonathan Driskell (I.B. Tauris)
The Wayward Woman: Progressivism, Prostitution, and Performance in the United States, 1888-1917 by Barbara Antoniazzi (Farleign Dickinson University Press)	Translocalities / Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Americas edited by Sonia E. Alvarez et al. (Duke University Press)	Women Writers and the Hero of Romance by Judith Wilt (Palgrave Macmillan)