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 Singularly Unfeminine Profession: One Woman’s Journey in Physics by Mary K. Gaillard (World Scientific Publishing)	Becoming a Romanov: Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and Her World (1807-1873) by Marina Soroka and Charles A. Rudd (Ashgate Publishing)	Big Pharma, Women, and the Labour of Love by Thea Cacchioni (University of Toronto Press)
Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity by Montre Aza Missouri (Palgrave Macmillan)	Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body by Beverly Thompson (New York University Press)	Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice by Pascha Bueno-Hansen (University of Illinois Press)
Gender Equality Policy in the European Union: A Fast Track to Parity for the New Member States by Ingrid Bego (Palgrave Macmillan)	Gender Inequality in Our Changing World: A Comparative Approach by Lori Kenschaft and Roger Clark (Routledge)	Lives of Incarcerated Women: An International Perspective edited by Candace Kruttschnitt and Catrien Bijleveld (Routledge)
My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves by Julie Wosk (Rutgers University Press)	Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior by Erin J. Campbell (Ashgate Publishing)	Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry by Annie Blazer (New York University Press)
Post-Feminist Impasses in Popular Heroine Television: The Persephone Complex by Alison Norbury (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Wrong Prescription for Women: How Medicine and Media Create a “Need” for Treatments, Drugs, and Surgery by Maureen C. McHugh and Joan C. Chrisler (Praeger)	Women’s Cricket and Global Processes: The Emergence and Development of Women’s Cricket as a Global Game by Philippa Velija (Palgrave Macmillan)