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 Race Of Female Patriots: Women and Public Spirit on the British Stage, 1688-1745 by Brett D. Wilson (Bucknell University Press)	African American Women Chemists by Jeannette Brown (Oxford University Press)	Alva Vanderbilt Belmont: Unlikely Champion of Women’s Rights by Slyvia D. Hoffert (Indiana University Press)
Embodying the Feminine in the Dances of the World’s Religions by Angela M. Yarber (Peter Lang Publishing)	Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art by Aileen Ribeiro (Yale University Press)	Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (University of North Carolina Press)
Hindu Widow Marriage: An Epochal Work on Social Reform From Colonial India by Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar (Columbia University Press)	Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe: Construction, Transformation, and Subversion, 600-1530 edited by Elizabeth L’Estrange and Alison More (Ashgate Publishing)	The Making of the West End Stage: Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830-1870 by Jacky Bratton (Cambridge University Press)