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.

Art, Education and Gender: The Shaping of Female Ambition by Gill Hopper (Palgrave Macmillan)	Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities edited by Becky R. Lee and Terry Tak Woo (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)	Daughter of Venice: Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance by Holly S. Hurlburt (Yale University Press)
Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose by Melanne Verveer and Kim K. Azzarelli (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)	Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical by Sherie M. Randolph (University of North Carolina Press)	Gender, Careers and Inequalities in Medicine and Medical Education: International Perspectives edited by Maria Tsouroufli (Emerald Group Publishing)
Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law by Alison Bass (ForeEdge)	Romaine Brooks: A Life by Cassandra Langer (University of Wisconsin Press)	Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Social Collateral: Women and Microfinance in Paraguay’s Smuggling Economy by Caroline E. Schuster (University of California Press)	Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom by Lucia Jang and Susan McCelland (W.W. Norton)	Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement by Sue Ellen Browder (Ignatius Press)
The Biopolitics of Gender by Jemima Repo (Oxford University Press)	Unveiling Women’s Leadership: Identity and Meaning of Leadership in India edited by Payal Kumar (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity by Nadia Maria El Cheikh (Harvard University Press)