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.

Becoming by Michelle Obama (Crown Publishing)	Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011: She Bites Back by Kendra R. Parker (Lexington Books)	Black. Queer. Southern. Women. An Oral History by E. Patrick Johnson (University of North Carolina Press)
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the “Powerless” Woman Who Took On Washington by Patricia Miller (Sarah Crichton Books)	Close Encounters of Another Kind: Women and Development Economics by Devaki Jain (Sage Publications)	Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley (HarperOne)
Forget “Having It All” How America Messed Up Motherhood – and How to Fix It by Amy Westervelt (Seal Press)	Gender and Environment in Science Fiction edited by Bridgette Barclay and Christy Todwell (Lexington Books)	Gender and the Media: Women’s Places edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos (Emerald Publishing)
Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab by Deboleena Roy (University of Washington Press)	On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate Change by Jade S. Sasser (New York University Press)	Race, Gender, and Image Repair Theory: How Digital Media Change the Landscape by Mia Moody-Ramirez and Hazel James Cole (Lexington Books)
Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics by Tanya Serisier (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women by Alicia Malone (Mango Books)	Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender edited by Ali Chetwynd et al. (University of Georgia Press)