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. As an Amazon Associate, WIAReport will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases.

Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.


Before Trans:
Three Gender Stories From Nineteenth-Century France

by Rachel Mesch
(Stanford University Press)

Cutting a New Pattern:
Uniformed Women in the Great War

by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining
(Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press)

Shortlisted:
Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

by Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson
(New York University Press)

The Female Secession:
Art and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy

by Megan Brandow-Faller
(Pennsylvania State University Press)

When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home:
A Memoir

by Elisa Brodinsky Miller
(Cherry Orchard Books)

Women Rapping Revolution:
Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit

by Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay
(University of California Press)

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