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.

Breaking Male Dominance in Old Democracies edited by Drude Dahlerup and Monique Leyenaar (Oxford University Press)	Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry and Culture 1640-1680 by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Oxford University Press)	Indian Sisters: A History of Nursing and the State, 1907-2007 by Madelaine Healey (Routledge India)
Reading the Irishwoman: Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange, 1714-1960 by Gerardine Meaney et al. (Liverpool University Press)	Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey: Grassroots Women Activists, the European Union, and the Turkish State by Gul Aldikacti Marshall (State University of New York Press)	The Politics of State Intervention: Gender Politics in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran by Shireen Burki (Lexington Books)
Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer by John Paul M. Kanwit (Ohio State University Press)	When the World Becomes Female: Guises of a South Indian Goddess by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger (Indiana University Press)	Women and Public Service: Barriers, Challenges, and Opportunities by Mohamad G. Alkadry (M.E. Sharpe)
Women Leaders in Higher Education: Shattering the Myths by Tanya Fitzgerald (Routledge)	Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Chloe Wigston Smith (Cambridge University Press)	Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution: The Coffee Culture of Cordoba, Veracruz by Heather Fowler-Salamini (University of Nebraska Press)