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.

Gender and Power in Sierra Leone: Women Chiefs of the Last Two Centuries by Lynda Day (Palgrave Macmillan)	Gendering the European Union: New Approaches to Old Democratic Deficits by Gabriele Abels and Joyce Marie Mushaben (Palgrave Macmillan)	Genealogies of Fiction: Women Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination in the “Orlando Furioso” by Eleonora Stoppino (Fordham University Press)
Milicianas: Women in Combat in the Spanish Civil War by Lisa Lines (Lexington Books)	Newcomb College, 1886-2006: Higher Education for Women in New Orleans edited by Susan Tucker and Beth Willinger (Louisiana State University Press)	The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress: Poor White Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression by Ashley Craig Lancaster (Louisiana State University Press)
The History of British Women’s Writing, 700-1500: Volume One edited by Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women of Note: The Rise of Australian Women Composers by Rosalind Appleby (Fremantle Press)	Women’s Roles in Sub-Saharan Africa by Toyin Falola and Nana Akua Amponsah (Greenwood Press)