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 Band of Noble Women: Racial Politics in the Women’s Peace Movement by Melinda Plastas (Syracuse University Press)
• Beard Fetish in Early Modern England: Sex, Gender, and Registers of Value by Mark Albert Johnston (Ashgate Publishing)
• Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently by John L. Locke (Cambridge University Press)
• Militant Citizenship: Rhetorical Strategies of the National Woman’s Party, 1913-1920 by Belinda A. Stillion Southard (Texas A&M University Press)
• Representation and Black Womanhood: The Legacy of Sarah Baartman edited by Natasha Gordon-Chipembere (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry (Yale University Press)
• Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative by Theresa Delgadillo (Duke University Press)
• The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy edited by Jeff Rider and Jamie Friedman (Palgrave Macmillan)
• The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream by Mary Romero (New York University Press)
• The Prodigious Muse: Women’s Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy by Virginia Cox (Johns Hopkins University Press)
• The Return of Feminist Liberalism by Ruth Abbey (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
• Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women Are the Solution by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid (Harvard Business Press)
• Women of Color in Higher Education: Turbulent Past, Promising Future edited by Gaetane Jean-Marie and Brenda Lloyd-Jones (Emerald Books)
• Women’s Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean by Kathryn A. Sloan (Greenwood Publishing)