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.

American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a Prayer by Juliane Hammer (University of Texas Press)	Beyond the Slave Narrative: Politics, Sex, and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution by Deborah Jenson (Liverpool University Press)	Exile Through a Gendered Lens: Women’s Displacement in Recent European History, Literature, and Cinema edited by Gesa Zinn and Maureen Tobin Stanley (Palgrave Macmillan)
Eyes Right: Confessions from a Woman Marine by Tracy Crow (University of Nebraska Press)	Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu “Rekhti” Poetry in India, 1780-1870 by Ruth Vanita (Palgrave Macmillan)	Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women edited by Margaret Cotter-Lynch and Brad Herzog (Palgrave Macmillan)
Women and Leadership in West Africa: Mothering the Nation and Humanizing the State by Filomina Chioma Steady (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women Who Opt Out: The Debate Over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance edited by Bernie D. Jones (New York University Press)	Women, Love, and Commodity Culture in British Romanticism by Daniela Garofalo (Ashgate Publishing)