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.

Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century by Edith Sparks (University of North Carolina Press)	Breastfeeding and Media: Exploring Conflicting Discourses That Threaten Public Health by Katherine A. Foss (Palgrave Macmillan)	Chinese Women Business Leaders: Seven Principles of Leadership by Jean Lee (Elsevier)
Demanding Justice and Security: Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America edited by Rachel Sieder (Rutgers University Press)	Gender, Governance and Feminist Analysis: Missing in Action? edited by Christine M. Hudson et al. (Routledge)	Gender: War edited by Andrea Peto (Macmillan Reference)
Illuminating Women in the Medieval World by Christine Sciacca (J. Paul Getty Museum)	Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen’s Receipt Books by Kristine Kowalchuk (University of Toronto Press)	Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership edited by Kirsti Cole and Holly Hassel (Routledge)