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.

• Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935 by Kate Dossett (University Press of Florida)
• Cleopatra the Great: The Woman Behind the Legend by Joann Fletcher (Harper)
• Equality With a Vengeance: Men’s Rights Groups, Battered Women, and Antifeminist Backlash by Molly Dragiewicz (Northeastern University Press)
• Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing by Tara Williams (Ohio State University Press)
• Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting Paid What You’re Worth by Mika Brzezinski (Weinstein)
• Lesbians in Early Modern Spain by Sherry Velasco (Vanderbilt University Press)
• Making Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work by Mignon Duffy (Rutgers University Press)
• Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances Between Women and Labor by Suzanne Franzway and Margaret Fonow (University of Illinois Press)
• Minority Women Entrepreneurs: How Outsider Status Can Lead to Better Business Practices by Mary Godwyn and Donna Stoddard (Stanford University Press)
• New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism, and Subjectivity edited by Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman: Painting and the Novel in France and Britain, 1800-1860 by Alexandra K. Wettlaufer (Ohio State University Press)
• The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film From the 1870s Through the 1960s edited by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco (University of Michigan Press)
• Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives in Gender, Science, and Technology by Carol Colatrella (Ohio State University Press)
• Women Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition by Wanda M. Corn et al. (University of California Press)