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.


Abolition Feminisms:
Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice

edited by Alisa Bierria et al.
(Haymarket Books)

All of This:
A Memoir of Death and Desire

by Rebecca Woolf
(HarperOne)

The Funambulists:
Women Poets of the Arab Diaspora

by Lisa Marchi
(Syracuse University Press)

Gender Visibility and Erasure
edited by Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal
(Emerald Publishing)

Home Economics:
Domestic Service and Gender in Urban Southern Africa

by Sacha Hepburn
(Manchester University Press)

The Idea of Indian Literature:
Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method

by Preetha Mani
(Northwestern University Press)

On the Rocks:
Straight Talk About Women and Drinking

by Susan D. Stewart
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature:
Encrypted Sexualities

by Patricia Pulham
(Edinburgh University Press)

Southern Beauty:
Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South

by Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd
(University of Georgia Press)

Voices from the Contemporary Japanese Feminist Movement
by Emma Dalton and Caroline Norma
(Palgrave Macmillan)

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