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.

A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by Jimmy Carter (Simon and Schuster)	Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue: Liberating Traditions edited by Jennifer McWeeny and Ashley Butnor (Columbia University Press)	Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century by Clare Debenham (I.B. Tauris)
Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary by Regine Michelle Jean-Charles (Ohio State University Press)	God and Blackness: Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church by Andrea C. Abrams (New York University Press)	Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai’i’s Pacific World by Jennifer Thigpen (University of North Carolina)
Rape Culture and Spiritual Violence: Religion, Testimony and Visions of Healing by Gina Messina-Dysert (Acumen Publishing)	Regulating Prostitution in China: Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900-1937 by Elizabeth J. Remick (Stanford University Press)	Spanish Female Writers and the Freethinking Press, 1879-1926 by Christine Arkinstall (University of Toronto Press)