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.

Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton and Cari Lynn (The New Press)	Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion by Monica Carol Miller (Louisiana State University Press)	Depicting Female Suicide Bombers: Understanding the Radicalization Process by Bina Patel (Common Ground Publishing)
Empowered by Design: Decentralization and the Gender Policy Trifecta by Meg Rincker (Temple University Press)	Empowerment of Women for Promoting Health and Quality of Life by Snehendu B. Kar (Oxford University Press)	Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes: Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration edited by Samia Bano (Brandeis University Press)
Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire by Carol Dyhouse (Oxford University Press)	Jackie’s Girl: My Life With the Kennedy Family by Kathy McKeon (Gallery Books)	Ladies’ Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy by Yopie Prins (Princeton University Press)
Motherhood and Patriarchal Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century Italian Comedy by Yael Manes (Routledge)	Mothering by Degrees: Single Mothers and the Pursuit of Postsecondary Education by Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson (Rutgers University Press)	Radical Decadence: Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles and Craft by Julia Skelly (Bloomsbury Academic)
The Accomplished Lady: A History of Genteel Pursuits c. 1660-1860 by Noel Riley (Oblong Creative)	The Feminization of Sports Fandom: A Sociological Study by Stacey Pope (Routledge)	The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness by Jill Filipovic (Nation Books)
The Labor of Faith: Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism by Judith Casselberry (Duke University Press)	The League of Exotic Dancers: Legends From American Burlesque by Kaitlyn Regehr and Matilda Temperley (Oxford University Press)	The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military edited by Rachel Woodward and Claire Duncanson (Palgrave Macmillan)
The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy edited by Ann Garry et al. (Routledge)	Women Activists Between War and Peace: Europe, 1918-1923 edited by Ingrid Sharp and Matthew Stibbe (Bloomsbury Academic)	Women’s Emancipation in Africa – Reality or Illusion? A Case Study of Mbarara, Western Uganda by Paul Mutume (Peter Lang International)