Recent Books 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.

Armed Ambiguity: Women Warriors in German Literature and Culture in the Age of Goethe by Julie Koser (Northwestern University Press)	Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia edited by Tiantian Zheng (University of Hawaii Press)	Diversity in Practice: Race, Gender, and Class in Legal and Professional Careers edited by Spencer Headworth et al. (Cambridge University Press)
Feminism and Religion: How Faiths View Women and Their Rights edited by Michelle A. Paludi and J. Harold Ellens (Praeger)	Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace: Emerging Issues and Enduring Challenges edited by Margaret Foegen Karsten (Praeger)	Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein (Harper)
Medicine and Morality in Egypt: Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Sherry Sayed Gadelrab (I.B. Tauris)	New Feminism in China: Young Middle-Class Chinese Women in Shanghai by Jiaran Zheng (Springer)	Plato on Women: Revolutionary Ideas for Gender Equality in an Ideal Society by Harald Haarmann (Cambria Press)
Psychology and Gender Dysphoria: Feminist and Transgender Perspectives by Jemma Tosh (Routledge)	Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris (The New Press)	Successful Women Ceramic and Glass Scientists and Engineers: 100 Inspirational Profiles by Lynette D. Madsen (John Wiley & Sons)
The New Advantage: How Women in Leadership Can Create Win-Wins for Their Companies and Themselves by Howard J. Morgan and Joelie K. Jay (Praeger)	The New Heroines: Female Embodiment and Technology in 21st-Century Popular Culture by Kathryn Wright (Praeger)	The Unsafe Sex: The Female Binary and Public Violence Against Women by Nalini Natarajan (Oxford University Press)
Women and Positive Aging: An International Perspective by Lisa Hollis-Sawyer and Amanda Dykema-Engblade (Academic Press)	Women’s Movements in Post-“Arab Spring” North Africa by Fatima Sadiqi (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China by Louise Edwards (Cambridge University Press)