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.

Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature by Emily J. Lordi (Rutgers University Press)	Bomb Girls: Britain’s Secret Army: The Munitions Women of World War II by Jacky Hyams (John Blake)	Flesh Made Word: Medieval Women Mystics, Writing, and the Incarnation by Emily A. Holmes (Baylor University Press)
Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi: No Secret Under the Sun by Anika Wilson (Palgrave Macmillan)	I Ask For Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944 by David Carey Jr. (University of Texas Press)	In the Thick of the Fight: The Writing of Emily Wilding Davison, Militant Suffragette by Carolyn P. Collette (University of Michigan Press)
Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality by Jonathan Aitken (Bloomsbury USA)	Martha Graham: Gender and the Haunting of a Dance Pioneer by Victoria Thoms (Intellect Books)	Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City by Caroline Wanjiku Kihato (Palgrave Macmillan)
Policing and Prosecuting Sexual Assault: Inside the Criminal Justice System by Cassia Spohn and Katharine Tellis (Lynne Rienner Publishers)	The Rhetoric of Rebel Women: Civil War Diaries and Confederate Persuasion by Kimberly Harrison (Southern Illinois University Press)	We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835 by Katy Simpson Smith (Louisiana State University Press)