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.

Challenging Misrepresentations of Black Womanhood: Media, Literature and Theory edited by Marquita M. Gammage and Antwanisha Alameen-Shavers (Anthem Press)	Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Literature and Film by Polina Kroik (Routledge)	Female Celebrities in Contemporary Chinese Society edited by Shenshen Cai (Palgrave Macmillan)
Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity During the Cold War by Kristen Ghodsee (Duke University Press)	The Future is Feminist: Radical, Funny, and Inspiring Writing by Women edited by Mallory Farrugia (Chronicle Books)	They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rodgers (Yale University Press)
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman (W.W. Norton)	Women From the Parsonage: Pastors Daughters As Writers, Translators, Salonnières, and Educators edited by Cindy K. Renker and Susanne Bach (De Gruyter)	Women Professors: Who Makes It and How? by Carmel Diezmann and Susan Grieshaber (Springer)