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.

Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature by Brian Norman (Johns Hopkins University Press)	Friendship’s Shadows: Women’s Friendship and the Politics of Betrayal in England, 1640-1705 by Penelope Anderson (Edinburgh University Press)	From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women Between Religion and Culture by Saba Soomekh (State University of New York Press)
Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Children and Adolescents in Film edited by Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet (Palgrave Macmillan)	Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico by Vania Smith-Oka (Vanderbilt University Press)	The Victim’s Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind by Bruce Bawer (Broadside Books)
The Women of Pliny’s Letters by Jo-Ann Shelton (Routledge)	Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina by Denise Cruz (Duke University Press)	Writing Medieval Women’s Lives edited by Charlotte Newman Goldy and Amy Livingstone (Palgrave Macmillan)