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.

African American Girls and the Construction of Identity: Class, Race, and Gender by Sheila Walker (Lexington Books)	Big Sister: Feminism, Conservatism, and Conspiracy in the Heartland by Erin M. Kempker (University of Illinois Press)	Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South by Jenny M. Luke (University Press of Mississippi)
Gender and the Superhero Narrative edited by Michael Goodrum et al. (University Press of Mississippi)	Interracial Relationships Between Black Women and White Men by Cheryl Judice (Bookbaby Publishers)	Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart (Alfred A. Knopf)
Seven Faces of Women’s Sport by Irene A. Reid and Jane Dennehy (Emerald Publishing)	She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy by Jill Soloway (Crown)	The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist by Carol A. Stabile (Goldsmiths Press)
The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon by Jaime Harker (University of North Carolina Press)	The Periodic Table of Feminism by Marissa Bate (Seal Press)	Warring Over Valor: How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries edited by Simon Wendt (Rutgers University Press)