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 Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome by Melissa Dabakis (Penn State University Press)	A World of Their Own: A History of South African Women’s Education by Meghan Healy-Clancy (University of Virginia Press)	Alice Paul: Claiming Power by J.D. Zahniser (Oxford University Press)
Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read by Barbara Lounsberry (University Press of Florida)	Catholic Women’s Movements in Liberal and Fascist Italy by Helena Dawes (Palgrave Macmillan)	Desiring Emancipation: New Women and Homosexuality in Germany, 1890–1933 by Marti M. Lybeck (State University of New York Press)
Farms, Factories, and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut by Anthony V. Riccio (State University of New York Press)	Female Piety and the Catholic Reformation in France by Jennifer Hillman (Pickering & Chatto)	Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim: At Her Most Radiant Moment by Juliane Romhild (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)
Feminism as Life’s Work: Four Modern American Women Through Two World Wars by Mary K. Trigg (Rutgers University Press)	Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark (University of Georgia Press)	Israeli Feminist Scholarship: Gender, Zionism, and Difference edited by Esther Fuchs (University of Texas Press)
Small Arms Survey 2014: Women and Guns (Cambridge University Press)	Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas edited by Julie Shayne (State University of New York Press)	The Republic of Men: Gender and the Political Parties in Interwar France by Geoff Read (Louisiana State University Press)
Vietnam’s New Middle Class: Gender, Career, City by Catherine Earl (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies)	Waiting for Cancer to Come: Women’s Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer by Sharlene Hesse-Biber (University of Michigan Press)	War Echoes: Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production by Ariana E. Vigil (Rutgers University Press)
Warrior Women: Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star by Lisa Funnell (State University of New York Press)	Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui (Zed Books)	Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles by Paul Heger (Brill Academic)