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.

Beyond the Looking Glass: Narcissism and Female Stardom in Studio-Era Hollywood by Ana Salzberg (Berghahn Books)	Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Women’s Writing by Angela Laffen (Palgrave Macmillan)	Dalit Women’s Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination by Shailaja Paik (Routledge)
Emilie Davis’s Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863-1865 edited by Judith Giesberg et al. (Pennsylvania State University Press)	Global Perspectives on Gender and Space: Engaging Feminism and Development edited by Ann M. Oberhauser and Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo (Routledge)	Integral Voices on Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: Critical Inquiries edited by Sarah E. Nicholson and Vanessa D. Fisher (State University of New York Press)
Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do: The Ethics of Ambivalence by Sarah LaChance Adams (Columbia University Press)	Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism by Mary Chapman (Oxford University Press)	Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence: The Realisation of Divine Love by Georgina L. Jardim (Ashgate Publishing)
Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood by Deanne Williams (Palgrave Macmillan)	Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen Thorpe (Scribner)	The Beauty Trade: Youth, Gender, and Fashion Globalization by Angela B.V. McCracken (Oxford University Press)
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport (St. Martin’s Press)	Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning edited by Adrienne Lanier Seward and Justine Tally (University Press of Mississippi)	Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Amy Helene Kirschke (University Press of Mississippi)