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.

Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848–1960 by Karen R. Roybal (University of North Carolina Press)	Gender, Feminism and Critical Realism: Exchanges, Challenges, Synergies edited by Lena Gunnarsson (Routledge)	How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump by Laura Briggs (University of California Press)
Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls Through Education by Urvashi Sahni (Brookings Institution Press)	The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter: A Memoir by Jane Lazarre (Duke University Press)	The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition edited by Maryanne L. Fisher (Oxford University Press)
The Zero Trimester: Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk by Miranda Waggoner (University of California Press)	Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure by Lynn Comella (Duke University Press)	Women’s Transitions from Prison: The Post-Release Experience by Rosemary Sheehan and Chris Trotter (Routledge)