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.


An Architecture of Education:
African American Women Design the New South

by Angel David Nieves
(University of Rochester Press)

Between Families and Frankenstein:
The Politics of Egg Donation in the United States

by Erin Heidt-Forsythe
(University of California Press)

Centrepiece:
Women’s Writing and Art from Northeast India

edited by Parismita Singh
(Zubaan Books)

Diva Nation:
Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History

edited by Laura Miller and Rebecca Copeland
(University of California Press)

Empowerment of Women for Promoting Health and Quality of Life
by Snehendu B. Kar
(Oxford University Press)

Performing Remembering:
Women’s Memories of War in Vietnam

by Rivka syd Eisner
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Radical Visionaries:
Feminist Therapy Pioneers, 1970-1975

edited by Claudia Pitts and Debra M. Kawahara
(Routledge)

Sara Levy’s World:
Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin

edited by Rebecca Cypress and Nancy Sinkoff
(University of Rochester Press)

The Existence of the Mixed Race Damnés:
Decolonialism, Class, Gender, Race

by Daphne V. Taylor-Garcia
(Rowman & Littlefield International)

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