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.

A Feminist in the White House: Midge Costanza, the Carter Years, and America’s Culture Wars by Doreen Mattingly (Oxford University Press)	Campus Action Against Sexual Assault: Needs, Policies, Procedures, and Training Programs edited by Michele A. Paludi (Praeger)	Counting Women’s Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal by J. Kevin Corder and Christina Wolbrecht (Cambridge University Press)
Critical Research on Sexism and Racism in Stem Fields edited by Ursula Thomas and Jill Drake (Information Science Reference)	Finding Dorothy Scott: Letters of a WASP Pilot by Sarah Byrn Rickman (Texas Tech University Press)	Gender Roles and Caste Effects in Indian Social Setup edited by Samhita Chaudhuri and Pradip Chouhan (Readers Service)
Lincoln’s Generals’ Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War for Better and for Worse by Candice Shy Hooper (Kent State University Press)	Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945 by Okezi T. Otovo (University of Texas Press)	Pursuing Perfection: Eating Disorders, Body Myths, and Women at Midlife and Beyond by Margo Maine and Joe Kelly (Routledge)
Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici by Una McIlvenna (Routledge)	Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women’s Sports by Lindsay Pieper (University of Illinois Press)	Women’s Albums and Photography in Victorian England: Ladies, Mothers and Flirts by Patrizia Di Bello (Routledge)