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.

American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, and Form by Amy Moorman Robbins (Rutgers University Press)	Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women by Katie Pavlich (Threshold Editions)	Constructing Virtue and Vice: Femininity and Laughter in Courtly Society (ca. 1150-1300) by Olga V. Trokhimenko (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht)
French Women and the Empire: The Case of Indochina by Marie-Paule Ha (Oxford University Press)	Gender and Chinese Society edited by Xiaowei Zang (Routledge)	Gender, War and Conflict by Laura Sjoberg (Polity)
Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business – and Won! by Emily Arnold McCully (Clarion Books)	Motherhood and War: International Perspectives edited by Dana Cooper and Claire Phelan (Palgrave Macmillan)	Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts by James Anderson Winn (Oxford University Press)
The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman’s Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890 edited by Minoa D. Uffelman et al. (University of Tennessee Press)	The Remarkable Life and Career of Ellen Swallow Richards: Pioneer in Science and Technology by Pamela C. Swallow (Wiley-TMS)	The Woman I Am: Southern Baptist Women’s Writings, 1906-2006 by Melody Maxwell (University of Alabama Press)
Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions edited by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women and Gender in Science and Technology edited by Londa Schiebinger (Routledge)	Women, Practice, Architecture: ‘Resigned Accommodation’ and ‘Usurpatory Practice’ edited by Naomi Stead (Routledge)