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.

Empowerment and Interconnectivity: Toward a Feminist History of Utilitarian Philosophy by Catherine Villanueva Gardner (Pennsylvania State University Press)	Hidden Hunger: Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods by Aya Hirata Kimura (Cornell University Press)	One Woman in a Hundred: Edna Phillips and the Philadelphia Orchestra by Mary Sue Welsh (University of Illinois Press)
Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu by Christina Laffin (University of Hawaii Press)	The Women Who Came in the Mayflower by Annie Russell Marble (Tredition Classics)	The Worlds of Russian Village Women: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise by Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva (University of Wisconsin Press)
Undaunted: The Real Story of America’s Servicewomen in Today’s Military by Tanya Blank (NAL Hardcover)	Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success by Rose Corrigan (New York University Press)	Women of the Frontier: 16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers by Brandon Marie Miller (Chicago Review Press)