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.


Equality Deferred:
Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84

by Dominque Clement
(University of British Columbia Press)

Framing the Rape Victim:
Gender and Agency Reconsidered

by Carine M. Mardorossian
(Rutgers University Press)

Gendering the Recession:
Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity

edited by Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker
(Duke University Press)

In Duty Bound:
Men, Women, and the State in Upper Canada, 1783-1841

by J.K. Johnson
(McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Quite Contrary:
The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett Love

by David J. Langum Sr.
(Texas Tech University Press)

Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian
by Ethelene Whitmire
(University of Illinois Press)

Sex, Violence, and Justice:
Contraception and the Catholic Church

by Aline H. Kalbian
(Georgetown University Press)

The Beguines of Medieval Paris:
Gender, Patronage, and Spiritual Authority

by Tanya Stabler Miller
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

Women’s Political Visibility and Media Access:
The Case of Nigeria

by Oladokun Omojola
(Cambridge Scholars Press)

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