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.

A Simple Justice: Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote by Melanie Beals Goan (University Press of Kentucky)	Empress Alexandra: The Special Relationship Between Russia’s Last Tsarina and Queen Victoria by Melanie Clegg (Pen and Sword History)	Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture and Society: Eve’s Sinful Bite edited by Claudia Bernardi et al. (Bloomsbury Academic)
Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls: Women, Music and Fame by Lisa Robinson (Henry Holt)	Requiem for a Female Serial Killer by Phyllis Chester (New English Review Press)	Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran by Niloofar Haen (Stanford University Press)
Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1850 by Sara E. Lampert (University of Illinois Press)	Textiles and Gender in Antiquity: From the Orient to the Mediterranean edited by Mary Harlow et al. (Bloomsbury Academic)	The Women I Think About at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes by Mia Kankimaki (Simon & Schuster)
Trans Women and HIV: Social Psychological Perspectives by Rusi Jaspal (Palgrave Macmillan)	We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper (Grand Central Publishing)	Women’s Perspectives on Human Security: Violence, Environment, and Sustainability edited by Richard Matthew (Ohio University Press)