Recent Books That May Be 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.

Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

Republic of Women: Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century by Carol Pal (Cambridge University Press)	Self-Determination and Women’s Rights in Muslim Societies edited by Chitra Raghaven and James P. Levine (Brandeis University Press)	Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes: Canadian Women, Smoking, and Visual Culture, 1880-2000 by Sharon Anne Cook (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Simone de Beauvoir: Political Writings edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann (University of Illinois Press)	The Daughter’s Way: Canadian Women’s Paternal Elegies by Tanis MacDonald (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)	The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South by Katherine van Wormer et al. (Louisiana State University Press)
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media, and Gender in Kinshasa by Katrien Pype (Berghahn Books)	The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack (Yale University Press)	Where the Paved Road Ends: One Woman’s Extraordinary Experiences in Yemen by Carolyn Han (Potomac Books)