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 History of Women’s Boxing by Malissa Smith (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Bodies and Bones: Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging by Tanya L. Shields (University of Virginia Press)	Deborah’s Daughters: Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation by Joy A. Schroeder (Oxford University Press)
Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race by Ellen Samuels (New York University Press)	Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster)	Italian Women Writers: Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism, 1870-1910 by Katherine Mitchell (University of Toronto Press)
Patent and Trademark Activity of U.S. Women Entrepreneurs: Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses by Dianna M. Ogden (Nova Science)	Representation: The Case of Women edited by Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson (Oxford University Press)	Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory Among Gullah/Geechee Women by LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant (Duke University Press)
Teach a Woman to Fish: Overcoming Poverty Around the Globe by Ritu Sharma (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Lost Wave: Women and Democracy in Postwar Italy by Molly Tambor (Oxford University Press)	The Man from Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women by Edward Lewis (Atria Books)
The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India by Harleen Singh (Cambridge University Press)	The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime edited by Rosemary Gartner and Bill McCarthy (Oxford University Press)	The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender by Anne Emmanuelle Berger, translated by Catherine Porter (Fordham University Press)
Voices at Work: Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece by Andromache Karanika (Johns Hopkins University Press)	Western College for Women by Jacqueline Johnson (Arcadia Publishing)	Women in the United States Congress: Brief Analyses with Biographical and Historical Information edited by Gill L. Celeste (Nova Science)