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 Journey Into Women’s Studies: Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries edited by Rekha Pande (Palgrave Macmillan)	A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987 by Kathry Hellerstein (Stanford University Press)	Afghanistan Remembers: Gendered Narrations of Violence and Culinary Practices by Parin Dossa (University of Toronto Press)
American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, and Form by Amy Moorman Robbins (Rutgers University Press)	British Women’s Life Writing, 1760-1840: Friendship, Community, and Collaboration by Amy Culley (Palgrave Macmillan)	Feminisms in Social Work Research: Promise and Possibilities for Justice-Based Knowledge edited by Stephanie Wahab et al. (Routledge)
Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture by Sarah N. Roth (Cambridge University Press)	Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations by Laura J. Shepherd (Routledge)	Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan edited by Andrea Germer et al. (Routledge)
Science, Gender, and Internationalism: Women’s Academic Networks, 1917-1955 by Christine von Oertzen (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Queen’s Mercy: Gender and Judgment in Representations of Elizabeth I by Mary Villeponteaux (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan by Sonja Arntzen (Stanford University Press)
Peculiar Affinity: The World the Slave Owners and Their Female Slaves Made by Gerald S. Norde Sr. (Edwin Mellen Press)	Women Educators, Leaders and Activists: Educational Lives and Networks 1900-1960 edited by Tanya Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Smyth (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women’s Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter by Michele Barrett (Verso)