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.

Black Girls: Migrant Domestic Workers and Colonial Legacies by Sabrina Marchetti (Brill Academic Publishing)	Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle Within the Israeli Prison System by Nahla Abdo (Pluto Press)	Gender and Sexualities in Education: A Reader edited by Elizabeth J. Meyer and Dennis Carlson (Peter Lang International)
Growing up Female in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia by Cynthia Joseph (Routledge)	Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human by Alexander G. Weheliye (Duke University Press)	Informal Ambassadors: American Women, Transatlantic Marriages, and Anglo-American Relations 1865-1945 by Dana Cooper (Kent State University Press)
Searching for Scientific Womanpower: Technocratic Feminism and the Politics of National Security, 1940-1980 by Laura Micheletti Puaca (University of North Carolina Press)	Susan Sontag: A Biography by Daniel Schreiber (Northwestern University Press)	Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism edited by Jana L. Argersinger and Phyllis Cole (University of Georgia Press)
Transforming Scholarship: Why Women’s and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World by Michele Tracy Berger and Cheryl L. Radeloff (Routledge)	Women’s Movements and Countermovements: The Quest for Gender Equality in Southeast Asia and the Middle East edited by Claudia Derichs (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)	Working With Women’s Groups for Problem Gambling: Treating Gambling Addiction Through Relationship by Liz Karter (Routledge)