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.

Angels of Mercy: Foreign Women in the Anglo-Boer War by Chris Schoeman (Random House Struik)	Attending to Early Modern Women: Conflict and Concord by Karen Nelson (University of Delaware Press)	College Girl by Laura Gray-Rosendale (State University of New York Press)
Diversity and the Common Good: Civil Society, Religion, and Catholic Sisters in a Small City by Meg Wilkes Karraker (Lexington Books)	Resistance and Empowerment in Black Women’s Hair Styling by Elizabeth Johnson (Ashgate Publishing)	Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch by Barbara A. Perry (W.W. Norton)
Scottish Women: A Documentary History, 1780-1914 by Esther Breitenbach (Edinburgh University Press)	Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments edited by Linda Trimble et al. (University of British Columbia Press)	The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots by Brenda Stevenson (Oxford University Press)