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 Primer for Teaching Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History: Ten Design Principles by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Urmi Engineer Willoughby (Duke University Press)	African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era by Jeannette E. Brown (Oxford University Press)	Elusive Equity, Empathy, and Empowerment: One Woman’s Journey Through the Challenges of Gender Bias in the Early Twenty-First Century by Pandora B. Angel (Archway)
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter (Henry Holt)	Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture by Tamura Lomax (Duke University Press)	Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election edited by Chritine A. Kray et al. (University of Rochester Press)
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg (Harvard University Press)	On Fire in Baltimore: Black Mormon Women and Conversion in a Raging City by Laura Rutter Strickling (Greg Kofford Books)	Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity by Ralina L. Joseph (New York University Press)
The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry by Emily Ruth Rutter (University of Alabama Press)	The Routledge Research Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World edited by Kimberly Anne Coles and Eve Keller (Routledge)	Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77 by Louise Toupin (Pluto Press)
Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Rebecca Adami (Routledge)	Women Who Write Are Dangerous by Stefan Bollmann (Abbeville Press)	Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe by Anna Bellavitis (Palgrave Macmillan)