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.

Changing Narratives of Sexuality: Contestations, Compliance and Women’s Empowerment edited by Charmaine Pereira (Zed Books)	Critical Appropriations: African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity by Simone C. Drake (Louisiana State University Press)	Fat Blame: How the War on Obesity Victimizes Women and Children by April Michelle Herndon (University Press of Kansas)
Frail Vessels: Woman’s Role in Women’s Novels from Fanny Burney to George Eliot by Hazel Mews (Bloomsbury Academic Press)	From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America by Kimberly A. Hamlin (University of Chicago Press)	Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs by Madonna Harrington Meyer (New York University Press)
Maya Market Women: Power and Tradition in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala by S. Ashley Kistler (University of Illinois Press)	The Accidental Feminist: The Life of One Woman Through War, Motherhood, and International Photojournalism by Toby Molenaar (Arcade Publishing)	The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 by Lisa Tetrault (University of North Carolina Press)
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island by Will Harlan (Grove Press)	White Migrations: Gender, Whiteness and Privilege in Transnational Migration by Catrin Lundstrom (Palgrave Macmillan)	Writing Through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature by Ayesha K. Hardison (University of Virginia Press)