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 Hermeneutic Approach to Gender and Other Social Identities by Lauren Swayne Barthold (Palgrave Macmillan)	African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: The Construction of Race, Class and Gender by Steeve O. Buckridge (Bloomsbury Academic)	Gender, Violence and the State in Asia edited by Amy Barrow and Joy L. Chia (Routledge)
Men’s Intrusion, Women’s Embodiment: A Critical Analysis of Street Harassment by Fiona Vera Gray (Routledge)	Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World by Anise K. Strong (Cambridge University Press)	Undesirable Practices: Women, Children, and the Politics of the Body in Northern Ghana, 1930–1972 by Jessica Camembert (University of Nebraska Press)
Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother From the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Era edited by Carey Fleiner and Elena Woodacre (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women and Gay Men in the Postwar Period by John Portmann (Bloomsbury Academic)	Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance: The Rise of Women Theatre Artists in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries edited by Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva and Scott Proudfit (Palgrave Macmillan)