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.

• A Pearl of Great Value: Women in Search of a Purposeful Life by Linda M. Hubb (WestBow Press)
• Beauvoir and Her Sisters: The Politics of Women’s Bodies in France by Sandra Reineke (University of Illinois Press)
• Black Womanist Leadership: Tracing the Motherline edited by Toni C. King and S. Alease Ferguson (State University of New York Press)
• Feminism: Transmissions and Retransmissions by Marta Lamas (Palgrave Macmillan)
• In the Words of Women: The Revolutionary War and the Birth of the Nation, 1765-1799 by Louise V. North (Lexington Books)
• Julia Kristeva and Feminist Thought by Birgit Schippers (Edinburgh University Press)
• Looking South: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor from Reconstruction to Globalization by Mary E. Frederickson (University Press of Florida)
• Mentoring Strategies To Facilitate the Advancement of Women Faculty edited by Kerry Karukstis et al. (Oxford University Press)
• Opening Windows Onto Hidden Lives: Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research by Julie N. Zimmerman and Olaf F. Larson (Penn State University Press)
• Square Pegs In Round Holes: Women in Ministry by Brenda Cowper (Xlibris)
• The Politics of Women’s Integration: Voices from the Margins by Leah Bassel (Routledge)
• Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World by Lisa Bloom (Vanguard Press)
• Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History edited by Catherine M. Lewis and J. Richard Lewis (University of Arkansas Press)
• Women Under Islam: Gender, Justice and the Politics of Islamic Law by Chris Jones-Pauly and Abir Dajani Tuqan (I.B. Tauris)
• Women’s Marital Names: Feminism, Family, and Identity in Israel by Michal Rom and Orly Benjamin (Palgrave Macmillan