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.

After Morgentaler: The Politics of Abortion in Canada by Rachael Johnstone (University of British Columbia Press)	Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease by Carolyn A. Day (Bloomsbury Academic)	Equal Under the Sky: Georgia O’Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism by Linda M. Grasso (University of New Mexico Press)
Feminism After 9/11: Women’s Bodies as Cultural and Political Threat by Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo (Palgrave Macmillan)	Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967 by Joan Marie Johnson (University of North Carolina Press)	#girlgaze How Girls See the World by Amanda de Cadenet (Rizzoli)
Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice by Keith Gilyard (Duke University Press)	San Francisco’s Queen of Vice: The Strange Career of Abortionist Inez Brown Burns by Lisa Riggin (Bison Books)	The Awakened Woman: Remembering & Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams by Tererai Trent (Atria/Enliven Books)
Witchcraft Accusations and Persecutions as a Mechanism for the Marginalisation of Women by Samantha Spence (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)	Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature: Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity by Katherine Stone (Camden House)	Women and Politics: A Quest for Political Equality in an Age of Economic Inequality by Barbara Burrell (Routledge)