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 Study of the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya: Education, Religion and Gender Issues by Tripti Bassi (Springer)	An Artist in Abydos: The Life and Letters of Myrtle Broome by Lee Young (American University in Cairo Press)	When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment and Assault by David Buss (Little, Brown)
Flesh of My Flesh: Sexual Violence in Modern Hebrew Literature by Ilana Szobel (State University of New York Press)	Gender and Early Television: Mapping Women’s Role in Emerging US and British Media, 1850-1950 by Sarah Arnold (Bloomsbury Academic)	Gender and Organized Crime in Italy: Women’s Agency in Italian Mafias by Ombretta Ingrasci (I.B. Tauris)
Gender in American Literature and Culture edited by Jean Lutes and Jennifer Travis (Cambridge University Press)	How to Raise a Conservative Daughter by Michelle Easton (Regnery Press)	Industrial Housewives: Women’s Social Work in the Factories of Nazi Germany by Carola Sachse (Routledge)
Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Joanne Limburg (Atlantic Press)	Male Friendship, Homosociality, and Women in the Hebrew Bible: Malignant Fraternities by Barbara Thiede (Routledge)	Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema by Melanie Bell (University of Illinois Press)
Spatialities in Italian American Women’s Literature: Beyond the Mean Streets by Eva Pelayo Sanudo (Routledge)	The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It by Mary Ann Sieghart (Doubleday)	The Cinema of Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution edited by Susan Lord and María Caridad Cumaná (Indiana University Press)
The Female Gaze in Documentary Film: An International Perspective by Lisa French (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Future is Feminine: Capitalism and the Masculine Disorder by Clara Cremin (Bloomsbury Academic)	The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age by Amy Sohn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)