Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

books2Women 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.


Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers
by Shelly Cobb
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Dark Girls
by Bill Duke
(Amistad)

Gender, Conservatism and Political Representation
edited by Karen Celis and Sarah Childs
(ECPR Press)

Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel
by Silvia Valise
(University of Toronto Press)

Sentimental Memorials:
Women and the Novel in Literary History

by Melissa Sodeman
(Stanford University Press)


Three Decades of Engendering History:
Selected Works of Antonia I. Castaneda

edited by Linda Heidenreich
(University of North Texas Press)


Watch Me:
A Memoir

by Anjelica Huston
(Scribner)


When Care Work Goes Global:
Locating the Social Relations of Domestic Work

edited by Mary Romero et al.
(Ashgate Publishing)

Women’s Writing in Middle English:
An Annotated Anthology

edited by Alexandra Barratt
(Routledge)

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