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.

At the Center: Feminism, Social Science and Knowledge edited by Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Teller Segal (Emerald Group Publishing)	Constance Maynard’s Passions: Religion, Sexuality, and an English Educational Pioneer, 1849-1935 by Pauline A. Phipps (University of Toronto Press)	Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women’s Oppression-Perpetuating Choices by Shay Welch (Lexington Books)
Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace: Challenging Gender in Violence and Post-Conflict Reintegration by Seema Shekhawat (Palgrave Macmillan)	Gender-Based Perspectives on Batterer Programs: Program Leaders on History, Approach, Research, and Development by Edward W. Gondolf (Lexington Books)	Gender Equality and Sustainable Development by Melissa Leach (Routledge)
Japanese Women in Science and Engineering: History and Policy Change by Naonori Kodate and Kashiko Kodate (Routledge)	Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism edited by Donna King and Catherine G. Valentine (Vanderbilt University Press)	Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women’s Lives 1540-1714 by Sara Read (Pen and Sword)
Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Esther L. Jones (Palgrave Macmillan)	Reconfiguring Reproduction: Feminist Health Perspectives on Assisted Reproductive Technologies edited by Sarojini and Vrinda Marwah (Zubaan Books)	She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer by Diane Kiesel (Potomac Books)
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman (Harper)	The Archaeology of Gender in Historic America by Deborah L. Rotman (University Press of Florida)	The Governance of Female Drug Users: Women’s Experiences of Drug Policy by Natasha Du Rose (Policy Press)
Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970 by Anne Stefani (University Press of Florida)	Women and Alcohol: Social Perspectives edited by Patsy Staddon (Policy Press)	Women, Migration & the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique by Jeanne Marie Penvenne (James Currey)