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.


Against White Feminism:
Notes on Disruption

by Rafia Zakaria
(W.W. Norton)

Campus Rape Culture:
Identity and Myths

by Jennifer L. Huck
(Routledge)

Practical Audacity:
Black Women and International Human Rights

by Stanlie M. James
(University of Wisconsin Press)

Still Mad:
American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
(W.W. Norton)

Transnational Feminist Itineraries:
Situating Theory and Activist Practice

edited by Ashwini Tambe and Millie Thayer
(Duke University Press)

Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe:
c. 1450-1700

edited by Tanja L. Jones
(Amsterdam University Press)

Women, Peace, and Security:
Feminist Perspectives on International Security

edited by Caroline Leprince and Cassandra Steer
(McGill Queens University Press)

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