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.


Black Women and Social Justice Education:
Legacies and Lessons

edited by Stephanie Y. Evans et al.
(State University of New York Press)

Gender, Power, and Violence:
Responding to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today

by Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

Lady First:
The World of First Lady Sarah Polk

by Amy S. Greenberg
(Alfred A. Knopf)

Some Kind of Mirror:
Creating Marilyn Monroe

by Amanda Konkie
(Rutgers University Press)

The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory
edited by Robin Truth Goodman
(Bloomsbury Academic)

The Girls Next Door:
Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines

by Kara Dixon Vuic
(Harvard University Press)

This Is Our Message:
Women’s Leadership in the New Christian Right

by Emily S. Johnson
(Oxford University Press)

Unequal Profession:
Race and Gender in Legal Academia

by Meera E. Deo
(Stanford University Press)

Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema
by Barbara Mennel
(University of Illinois Press)

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