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 Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa by Laura S. Grillo (Duke University Press)	Aretha: The Queen of Soul―A Life in Photographs by Meredith Ochs (Sterling)	Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Higher Education Leadership by Heidi L Schnackenberg and Denise A. Simard (IGI Global)
Digital Dilemmas: Transforming Gender Identities and Power Relations in Everyday Life edited by Diana C. Parry et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)	Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism: Towards a New Synthesis edited by Ruth Rubio-Marin and Will Kymlicka (Oxford University Press)	Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work edited by Rina Agarwala and Jennifer Chun (Emerald Publishing)
Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field by Mark Burford (Oxford University Press)	Marie of France: Countess of Champagne, 1145-1198 by Theodore Evergates (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Postfeminist War: Women in the Media-Military-Industrial Complex by Mary Douglas Vavrus (Rutgers University Press)