Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

books2Women 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.


Freedom Rider Diary:
Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison

by Carol Ruth Silver
(University Press of Mississippi)

Gender and Welfare States in East Asia:
Confucianism or Gender Equality?

edited by Sirin Sung and Gillian Pascall
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Gendered Commodity Chains:
Seeing Women’s Work and Households in Global Production

edited by Wilma A. Dunaway
(Stanford University Press)

Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918
by Senia Paseta
(Cambridge University Press)

Verdi, Opera, Women
by Susan Rutherford
(Cambridge University Press)

What Works for Women at Work:
Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know

by Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey
(New York University Press)

With or Without:
Reading Postwar German Women Poets

by Charlotte Ann Melin
(Northwestern University Press)

Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain, 1970-2010:
Body, Time, and Locale

by David Kennedy and Christine Kennedy
(Liverpool University Press)

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