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.

Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century by Clare Debenham (I.B. Tauris)	Gender and Politics in Kuwait: Women and Political Participation in the Gulf by Meshal Al-Sabah (I.B. Tauris)	In the Thick of the Fight: The Writing of Emily Wilding Davison, Militant Suffragette by Carolyn P. Collette (University of Michigan Press)
Leaders in Gender and Education: Intellectual Self-Portraits edited by Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower and Christine Skelton (Sense Publishers)	Learning and Literacy in Female Hands, 1520-1698 by Elizabeth Mazzola (Ashgate Publishing)	Questions of Gender in Byzantine Society edited by Bronwen Neil and Lynda Garland (Ashgate Publishing)
Radical Chicana Poetics by Ricardo F. Vivancos Perez (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Construction of Femininity in a Postcolonial State: Girls’ Education in Singapore by Ee Moi Kho (Cambria Press)	Women, Pleasure, Film: What Lolas Want by Simon Richter (Palgrave Macmillan)