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 Matter of Moral Justice: Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice by Jenny Carson (University of Illinois Press)	Awakening: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women’s Rights by Rachel B. Vogelstein and Meghan Stone (Public Affairs)	Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World: Rethinking Female Adolescence by Caroline Bicks (Cambridge University Press)
Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom by Kathryn Klobert and Julie F. Kay (Hachette Books)	Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body by Savala Nolan (Simon & Schuster)	French Royal Women During the Restoration and July Monarchy: Redefining Women and Power by Heta Aali (Palgrave Macmillan)
Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Policy, Institutional Culture, and Individual Choice edited by Hyun Kyoung Ro et al. (Routledge)	In a New Light: Histories of Women and Energy edited by Abigail Harrison Moore and R. W. Sandwell (McGill-Queens University Press)	Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven edited by Jennifer McFarlane-Harris and Emily Hamilton-Honey (Routledge)
Pink Hats and Ballots: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Women’s Political Activism in the Age of Trump, Coronavirus, and Black Lives Matter by Lydia Rose and Teresa M. Bartoli (Lexington Books)	Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden (University of Illinois Press)	The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria by Judith A. Byfield (Ohio University Press)
The Letters of Shirley Jackson edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman (Random House)	Understanding Sharia Processes: Women’s Experiences of Family Disputes by Farrah Ahmed and Ghena Krayem (Hart Publishing)	Women, Horse Sports and Liberation: Equestrianism and Britain From the 18th to the 20th Centuries by Erica Munkwitz (Routledge)