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.

Baby, You are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall by Marie Cartier (Routledge)	Between Femininity and Feminism: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives on Care by Kanchan Mahadevan (D.K. Printworld)	Defying Convention: U.S. Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women’s Rights by Lisa Baldez (Cambridge University Press)
Elsie Chamberlain: The Independent Life of a Woman Minister by Alan Argent (Routledge)	Home With Hip Hop Feminism: Performances in Communication and Culture by Aisha S. Durham (Peter Lang International)	Like a Natural Woman: Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood by Kirsten Pullen (Rutgers University Press)
Memory and Utopia: The Primacy of Inter-Subjectivity by Luisa Passerini (Routledge)	Rachel Carson: Environmental Pioneer by Lori Hile (Raintree Books)	Reinterpreting the Eucharist: Explorations in Feminist Theology and Ethics edited by Anne Elvey et al. (Routledge)
Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan by Jan Bardsley (Bloomsbury Academic)	Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature by Wai-yee Li (Harvard University Asia Center)	Women in the Peninsular War by Charles J. Esdaile (University of Oklahoma Press)