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.

Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times by Jessica Halliday Hardie (University of California Press)	The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women’s Work in Medieval Catalan Cities by Sarah Ifft Decker (Pennsylvania State University Press)	Gene Tierney: Star of Hollywood’s Home Front by Will Scheibel (Wayne State University Press)
Hysterical: A Memoir by Elissa Bassist (Hatchette Books)	Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India by Ipshita Nath (Hurst)	Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood by Chelsea Conaboy (Henry Holt)
Panics Without Borders: How Global Sporting Events Drive Myths about Sex Trafficking by Gregory Mitchell (University of California Press)	Religion and Gender-Based Violence: Global and Local Responses to Harmful Practices edited by Brenda Bartelink et al. (Routledge)	What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century by Kathleen Lubey (Stanford University Press)
Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage by Nathali Holt (G.P. Putnam)	Women, Work, and Activism: Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century edited by Eloisa Betti et al. (Central European University Press)	You’ve Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected by Cynt Marshall (Ballantine Books)