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.

Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940 by Melissa R. Klapper (New York University Press)	Evolution’s Empress: Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women edited by Maryanne L. Fisher et al. (Oxford University Press)	From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front by Elizabeth R. Escobedo (University of North Carolina Press)
Gender, Religion, and Family Law: Theorizing Conflicts Between Women’s Rights and Cultural Traditions edited by Lisa Fishbayn Joffe and Sylvia Neil (Brandeis University Press)	Poetic Sisters: Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets by Deborah Kennedy (Bucknell University Press)	Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550 by Joni M. Hand (Ashgate Publishing)