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. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of WIAReport.

Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

Gender, State, and Medicine in Highland Ecuador: Modernizing Women, Modernizing the State, 1895-1950 by A. Kim Clark (University of Pittsburgh Press)	I’ll Stand By You: One Woman’s Mission to Heal the Children of the World by Elissa Montanti (Dutton)	Iconic: Decoding Images of the Revolutionary Black Woman by Lakesia D. Johnson (Baylor University Press)
Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageantry, Student Bodies, and College Life by Karen W. Tice (Oxford University Press)	The Story of a Life: Memoirs of a Young Jewish Woman in the Russian Empire by Anna Pavlovna Vygodskaia (Northern Illinois University Press)	Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium: Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics by Ya-Chen Chen (Lexington Books)