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.


Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity:
Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film

by Cheryl C.D. Hughes
(State University of New York Press)

Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies
edited by Robin Norris et al.
(Amsterdam University Press)

Feminist Intersectionality:
Centering the Margins in 21st-Century Medieval Studies

edited by Samantha Seal and Nicole Nolan Sidhu
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Feminist Theory and International Law
by Emily Jones
(Routledge)

Feminists Reclaim Mentorship
edited by Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman
(State University of New York Press)

Hawking Women:
Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture

by Sara Petrosillo
(Ohio State University Press)

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
by Elizabeth Blackwell
(Humanities Press)

The Silver Women:
How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

by Joan-Flores-Villalobos
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema:
Screening Hospitality

by Giovanna Faleschini Lerner
(Liverpool University Press)

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