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.

Beyond the Dance Floor: Female DJs, Technology, and Electronic Dance Music Culture by Rebekah Farrugia (Intellect Books)	Boots, Bikes, and Bombers: Adventures of Alaska Conservationist Ginny Hill Wood edited by Karen Brewster (University of Alaska Press)	Chaucer’s Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales by John A. Pitcher (Palgrave Macmillan)
Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style by Shira Tarrant and Majorie Jolles (State University of New York Press)	Liberty Is No War on Women: How Big Government and Victim-Politics Undermine America’s Progress by Carrie Lukas and Sabrina Schaeffer (Independent Women’s Forum Press)	Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia edited by Gabriella y Muhs (Utah State University Press)
Racing for Innocence: Whiteness, Gender, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action by Jennifer L. Pierce (Stanford University Press)	Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War edited by Charlotte Newman-Goldy and Amy Livington (Palgrave Macmillan)	Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States by Andrei Albertson and Emily K. Albertson (Temple University Press)
Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs: Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Cultures by Susan Dewey and Karen Brison (Syracuse University Press)	The Big Squeeze: A Social and Political History of the Controversial Mammogram by Handel Reynolds (Cornell University Press)	Women of Two Countries: German-American Women, Women’s Rights and Nativism, 1848-1890 by Michaela Bank (Berghahn Books)