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.

A Frenchwoman’s Imperial Story: Madame Luce in Nineteenth-Century Algeria by Rebecca Rogers (Stanford University Press)	A New Southern Woman: The Correspondence of Eliza Lucy Irion Neilson, 1871-1883 edited by Giselle Roberts (University of South Carolina Press)	Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses by Sarah Gristwood (Basic Books)
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman (Ballantine Books)	Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel by Paula R. Backscheider (Johns Hopkins University Press)	Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves: Women Writers and French Colonial Slavery by Doris Y. Kadish (Liverpool University Press)
The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence by Jennifer Higginbotham (Edinburgh University Press)	Women Aviators: From Amelia Earhart to Sally Ride, Making History in Air and Space by Bernard Marck (Flammarion)	Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity edited by Ruth Hellier (University of Illinois Press)