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.

Brazilian Women’s Filmmaking: From Dictatorship to Democracy by Leslie L. Marsh (University of Illinois Press)	Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart (Harper)	French Women Authors: The Significance of the Spiritual (1400-2000) edited by Kelsey L. Haskett and Holly Faith Nelson (University of Delaware Press)
I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science by Majorie Senechal (Oxford University Press)	Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender and Race in South Africa by Amanda Lock Starr (State University of New York Press)	The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender by Robin Waugh (Palgrave Macmillan)
The History of British Women’s Writing, 1920-1945: Volume Eight edited by Maroula Joannou (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women’s Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice by Kristin A. Goss (University of Michigan Press)	Women and Knowledge in the Mediterranean edited by Fatima Sadiqi (Routledge)