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.


A History of Early Modern Women’s Writing
edited by Patricia Phillippy
(Cambridge University Press)

Beyond Abortion:
Roe v. Wade and the Battle for Privacy

by Mary Ziegler
(Harvard University Press)

Female Mobility and Gendered Space in Ancient Greek Myth
by Ariadne Konstantinou
(Bloomsbury Academic)

Gender and Elections:
Shaping the Future of American Politics

edited by Susan J. Carroll and Richard L. Fox
(Cambridge University Press)

Rape on the Contemporary Stage
by Lisa Fitzpatrick
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Real Women Run:
Running as Feminist Embodiment

by Sandra L. Faulkner
(Routledge)

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