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 Study of Scarletts: Scarlett O’Hara and Her Literary Daughters by Margaret D. Bauer (University of South Carolina Press)	From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Teen Girls, Mass Media, and Moral Panic in the United States, 1905-2010 by Shayla Thiel-Stern (University of Massachusetts Press)	Gender, Globalization, and Violence: Postcolonial Conflict Zones edited by Sandra Ponzanesi (Routledge)
Gender, Identity and Violence: Female Deselection in India by Rainuka Dager (Routledge)	Indigenous African Knowledge Production: Food-Processing Practices Among Kenyan Rural Women by Njoki Nathani Wane (University of Toronto Press)	Maithil Women’s Tales: Storytelling on the Nepal-India Border by Coralynn V. Davis (University of Illinois Press)
Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England by Julie Crawford (Oxford University Press)	Rural Women’s Power in South Asia: Understanding Shakti by Pashington Obeng (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Search for Lasting Peace: Critical Perspectives on Gender-Responsive Human Security edited by Rosalind Boyd (Ashgate Publishing)
Why Marketing to Women Doesn’t Work: Using Market Segmentation to Understand Consumer Needs by Jenny Darroch (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women and Print Culture: The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical by Kathryn Shevelow (Routledge)	Women, Work, and Family: How Companies Thrive With a 21st-Century Multicultural Workforce edited by Michele A. Paludi (Praeger)