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.


After “Happily Ever After”
Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age

by Maria San Filippo
(Wayne State University Press)

On Violence and On Violence Against Women
by Jacqueline Rose
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Pious Peripheries:
Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan

by Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi
(Stanford University Press)

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy
edited by Kim Q. Hall
(Oxford University Press)

Women and Gender in a Lebanese Village:
Generations of Change

by Nancy w. Jabbra
(Brill Academic Publishing)

Women and Leadership in Higher Education During Global Crises
by Heidi L. Schnackenberg and Denise A. Simard
(IGI Global)

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