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.

Feminist Manifestos: A Global Documentary Reader edited by Penny A. Weiss (New York University Press)	Foreign Women Authors Under Fascism and Francoism: Gender, Translation, and Censorship by Pilar Godayol and Annarita Taronna (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)	Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home by Lara Lillibridge (Skyhorse Publishing)
Immigrant Women edited by Rita J. Simon (Routledge)	Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood by J.E. Smyth (Oxford University Press)	Our Lady of Everyday Life: La Virgen de Guadalupe and the Catholic Imagination of Mexican Women in America by María Del Socorro Castañeda-Liles (Oxford University Press)
Race, Culture, and Gender: Black Female Experiences of Violence and Abuse by Ava Kanyeredzi (Palgrave Macmillan)	Religious, Feminist, Activist: Cosmologies of Interconnection by Laurel Zwissler (University of Nebraska Press)	Respectability and Reform: Irish American Women’s Activism, 1880-1920 by Tara M. McCarthy (Syracuse University Press)
Revisiting Gendered States: Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations edited by Swati Parashar et al. (Oxford University Press)	Striking Women: Struggles & Strategies of South Asian Women Workers From Grunwick to Gate Gourmet by Sundari Anitha and Ruth Pearson (Lawrence & Wishart)	The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel: The Lost Heroine of Astronomy by Emily Winterburn (The History Press)
Wife Inc. The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century by Suzanne Leonard (New York University Press)	Women’s Empowerment for Sustainability in Africa edited by Robert Dibie (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)	Women’s Work and Pensions: What is Good, What is Best?: Designing Gender-Sensitive Arrangements edited by Bernd Marin and Eszter Zolyomi (Routldge)