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.

Building Gender Equity in the Academy: Institutional Strategies for Change by Sandra Laursen and Ann E. Austin (Johns Hopkins University Press)	Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap (University of Chicago Press)	Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise by Pamela Robertson Wojcik (Routledge)
Japan’s Far More Female Future: Increasing Gender Equality and Reducing Workplace Insecurity Will Make Japan Stronger by Bill Emmott (Oxford University Press)	Joan, Lady of Wales: Power and Politics of King John’s Daughter by Danna R. Messer (Pen and Sword History)	Lived Religion and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Raisa Maria Tolvo and Sari Katajala-Peltomaa (Routledge)
Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women’s Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America by Elissa Zellinger (University of North Carolina Press)	Professional Discourses, Gender and Identity in Women’s Media by Melissa Yoong (Palgrave Macmillan)	Putting Feminism to Work: Theorising Sexual Violence, Trauma and Subjectivity by Suzanne Egan (Palgrave Macmillan)
Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Gender, Race, and Identity in the American Rodeo by Elyssa Ford (University Press of Kansas)	Violence Against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jacqui True (Oxford University Press)	Who’s Laughing Now? Feminist Tactics in Social Media by Jenny Sunden and Susanna Paasonen (MIT Press)