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.

Communicating Gender and Advocating Accountability in Global Development by Karin Gwinn Wilkins (Palgrave Macmillan)	Distinct Identities: Minority Women in U.S. Politics edited by Nadia E. Brown and Sarah Allen Gershon (Routledge)	Empowering Women After the Arab Spring edited by Marwa Shalaby and Valentine M. Moghadam (Palgrave Macmillan)
Gender and Forests: Climate Change, Tenure, Value Chains and Emerging Issues edited by Carol J. Pierce Colfer et al. (Routledge)	Gender and Sexuality in Male-Dominated Occupations: Women Working in Construction and Transport by Tessa Wright (Palgrave Macmillan)	Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women’s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946 by Katrina Jagodinsky (Yale University Press)
New Orleans Women and the Poydras Home: More Durable than Marble by Pamela Tyler (Louisiana State University Press)	Plastic Bodies: Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil by Emilia Sanabria (Duke University Press)	Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism Inside the United Nations by Sylvanna M. Falcon (University of Washington Press)
Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human Rights by Eileen Hunt Botting (Yale University Press)	Women and Disasters in South Asia: Survival, Security and Development edited by Linda Racioppi and Swarna Rajagopalan (Routledge)	Women’s Rights in Authoritarian Egypt: Negotiating Between Islam and Politics by Hiam El-Gousi (I.B. Tauris)