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

• An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women’s Islamic Movements by Sherine Hafez (New York University Press)
• Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730 by Laura Linker (Ashgate Publishing)
• Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law edited by Tracy A. Thomas and Tracey Jean Boisseau (New York University Press)
• From Shamanism to Sufism: Women, Islam, and Culture in Central Asia by Razia Sultanova (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Gender and Higher Education edited by Barbara J. Bank (Johns Hopkins University Press)
• Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Space edited by Marilyn Booth (Duke University Press)
• Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature by Erin Khue Ninh (New York University Press)
• Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen: Hidden Histories, Enduring Vitality edited by Eun-Su Cho (State University of New York Press)
• Lives of the Sonnet, 1787-1895: Genre, Gender, and Criticism by Marianne van Remoortel (Ashgate Publishing)
• Observations on the Real Rights of Women and Other Writings by Hannah Mather Crocker (University of Nebraska Press)
• Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory by Fatma Kassem (Zed Books)
• Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars, and Artists edited by Jodie Michelle Lawston and Ashley E. Lucas (State University of New York Press)
• Reasoning From Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution by Serena Mayeri (Harvard University Press)
• Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World by Mary Beth Norton (Cornell University Press)
• Sisters in the Faith: Shaker Women and Equality of the Sexes by Glendyne R. Wergland (University of Massachusetts Press)
• Winning the West for Women: The Life of Suffragist Emma Smith Devoe by Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal (University of Washington Press)
• Women and the Animal Rights Movement by Emily Gaarder (Rutgers University Press)
• Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 by Leigh Whaley (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Women’s Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies by Beth Palmer (Oxford University Press)