Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

books2Women 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.


British Women Short Story Writers:
The New Woman to Now

edited by Emma Young and James Bailey
(Edinburgh University Press)

Gender Lens:
Women’s Issues and Perspectives

edited by Rekha Pande
(Rawat Publications)

Gendering Radicalism:
Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California

by Beth Slutsky
(University of Nebraska Press)

Girls, Gender and Physical Education:
An Activist Approach

by Kimberly L. Oliver and David Kirk
(Routledge)

Jewish Voices in Feminism:
Transnational Perspectives

by Nelly Las
(University of Nebraska Press)

Joy:
Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis

by Abigail Sanataria
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Mediated Eros:
Sexual Scripts Within and Across Cultures

by Miglena M. Sternadori
(Peter Lang Publishers)

Monica:
An Ordinary Saint

by Gillian Clark
(Oxford University Press)

Patronage, Gender and the Arts in Early Modern Italy:
Essays in Honor of Carolyn Valone

edited by Katherine A. McIver and Cynthia Stollhans
(Italica Press)

The Born Frees:
Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu

by Kimberly Burge
(W.W. Norton)

The Limits of Knowledge:
Generating Pragmatist Feminist Cases for Situated Knowing

by Nancy Arden McHugh
(State University of New York Press)

Women in Dark Times
by Jacqueline Rose
(Bloomsbury USA)

Women in the Criminal Justice System:
Tracking the Journey of Females and Crime

edited by Tina L. Freilburger and Catherine D. Marcum
(CRC Press)

Women Representatives in Britain, France, and the United States
by Harriet B. Applewhite
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Women’s Employment in Muslim Countries:
Patterns of Diversity

by Niels Spierings
(Palgrave Macmillan)

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