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.

Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba by Takkare K. Brunson (University of Florida Press)	Critical Reflections on Women, Family, Crime and Justice edited by Isla Masson et al. (Policy Press)	Degrees of Difficulty: How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell From Grace by Georgia Cervin (University of Illinois Press)
Dream and Literary Creation in Women’s Writings in the 18th–19th Centuries edited by Isabelle Hervouet and Anne Rouhette (Anthem Press)	Democracy, Race, and Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander edited by Nina Banks (Yale University Press)	FemPoetiks of American Poetry and Americana Music: A Woman’s Truth by Linda Nicole Blair (Lexington Books)
Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive by Kristin Neff (Harper Wave)	Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic by Jennifer L. Morgan (Duke University Press)	The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Women’s Studies in Religion edited by Helen T. Boursier (Rowman & Littlefield)
“This Is America” Race, Gender, and Politics in America’s Musical Landscape by Katie Rios (Lexington Books)	Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain by Jennifer Smith (Vanderbilt University Press)	Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction by Li Guo (Purdue University Press)