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.

Ageing Women in Literature and Visual Culture: Reflections, Refractions, Reimaginings edited by Cathy McGlynn et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)	British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861 by Sutapa Dutta (Anthem Press)	Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Performance edited by Bishnupriya Dutt et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)
Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s by Kristine Alexander (University of British Columbia Press)	Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America by Michelle L. McClellan (Rutgers University Press)	Self-Harm in New Woman Writing by Alexandra Gray (Edinburgh University Press)
Teaching Girls: How Teachers and Parents Can Reach Their Brains and Hearts by Peter Kuriloff et al. (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	The Devout Hand: Women, Virtue, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Italy by Patricia Rocco (McGill-Queens University Press)	U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights by Kelly J. Shannon (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism: A Transnational Biographical History by Ulrich L. Lehner (Routledge)	Women’s Literary Networks and Romanticism: “A Tribe of Authoresses” edited by Andrew O. Winckles and Angela Rehbein (Liverpool University Press)	Women’s University Narratives, 1890–1945, Part II: Volume IV edited by Anna Bogen (Routledge)