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

”¢ Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada by Barbara M. Freeman (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Ӣ Composing Selves: Southern Women and Autobiography by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw (Louisiana State University Press)
Ӣ Crossing Through Chueca: Lesbian Literary Culture in Queer Madrid by Jill Robbins (University of Minnesota Press)
”¢ Elly Peterson: “Mother” of the Moderates by Sarah Fitzgerald (University of Michigan Press)
Ӣ Giao Lien: Women of the Communist Underground: Voices from the Vietnam War by Virginia Morris and Clive Hills (The History Press)
Ӣ How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran (Ebury Press)
”¢ In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in Native Women’s Poetry by Jennifer Andrews (University of Toronto Press)
Ӣ Marginal Subjects: Gender and Deviance in Fin-de-Siecle Spain by Akiko Tsuchiya (University of Toronto Press)
Ӣ Men, Women, and Money: Perspectives on Gender, Wealth, and Investment 1850-1930 by David R. Green et al. (Oxford University Press)
Ӣ Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora by Karen Flynn (University of Toronto Press)
Ӣ Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes by Lisa L. Moore (University of Minnesota Press)
Ӣ Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice edited by Lisa A. Kemmerer (University of Illinois Press)
”¢ The New Science and Women’s Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein edited by Judy A. Hayden (Palgrave Macmillan)
”¢ Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks: The Making of Cultural Resistance edited by Clara Roman-Odio and Marta Sierra (Palgrave Macmillan)
Ӣ Women in America: Social and Economic Achievements and Challenges edited by Charlotte G. Harris and Andrea M. Berger (Nova Science Publishers)
Ӣ Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China by Linda Cooke Johnson (University of Hawaii Press)
Ӣ Women, the Crime of Stalking, and Its Effects: A Study of Police Attitudes and Practices by H. James Geistman Jr. (Edwin Mellen Press)

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