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.

Breast or Bottle? Contemporary Controversies in Infant-Feeding Policy and Practice by Amy Koerber (University of South Carolina Press)	Charles Dickens’ Favorite Daughter: The Life, Loves, and Art of Katey Dickens Perugini by Lucinda Hawksley (Lyons Press)	Feeling Women’s Liberation by Victoria Hesford (Duke University Press)
Having It All in the Belle Epoque: How French Women’s Magazines Invented the Modern Woman by Rachel Mesch (Stanford University Press)	Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance by Virginia Cox (Johns Hopkins University Press)	Mammographies: The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives by Mary K. DeShazer (University of Michigan Press)
Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature by Sara K. Day (University Press of Mississippi)	Sovereign Feminine: Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany by Matthew Head (University of California Press)	The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution by Matt Richardson (Ohio State University Press)
Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belonging by Maya Socolovsky (Rutgers University Press)	Women, Travel and Identity: Journeys by Rail and Sea, 1870-1940 by Emma Robinson-Tomsett (Manchester University Press)	Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels by Courtney Thorsson (University of Virginia Press)