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 Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America’s Schools by Rachel Devlin (Basic Books)	Backwards and in Heels: The Past, Present And Future Of Women Working In Film by Alicia Malone (Mango)	Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800–1050 by Steven Vanderputten (Cornell University Press)
Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction: Angels, Amazons, and Women by Patrick B. Sharp (University of Wales Press)	Emancipatory Thinking: Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Political Thought by Elaine Starvo (McGill-Queens University Press)	Gender Studies: Theories, Issues and Concerns edited by Adrien Driver (Willford Press)
Lydia Sigourney: Critical Essays and Cultural Views edited by Mary Louise Kete and Elizabeth Petrino (University of Massachusetts Press)	Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina by Barbara Sutton (New York University Press)	The Evils of Polygyny: Evidence of Its Harm to Women, Men, and Society by Rose McDermott (Cornell University Press)
The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Outdoor Learning edited by Tonia Gray and Denise Mitten (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison Promiscuous Women by Scott W. Stern (Beacon Press)	We’ll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction by Susan Eisenberg (ILR Press)