Recent Books 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.


Are All the Women Still White?
Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms

by Janell Hobson
(State University of New York Press)

Awkward Politics:
Technologies of Popfeminist Activism

by Carrie Smith Prei and Maria Stehle
(McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Exercise in the Female Life-Cycle in Britain, 1930-1970
by Eilidh Macrae
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Gender and Educational Achievement
edited by Andreas Hadjar et al.
(Routledge)

Mid-Century Modern Women in the Visual Arts
by Ellen Surrey
(AMMO Books)

No Mercy Here:
Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity

by Sarah Haley
(University of North Carolina Press)

The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract:
Working and Living in Contingency

edited by Lisa Adkins and Maryanne Dever
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Women on the Run:
Gender, Media, and Political Campaigns in a Polarized Era

by Danny Hayes and Jennifer L. Lawless
(Cambridge University Press)

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