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.

Ada’s Algorithm: How Lord Byron’s Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age by James Essinger (Melville House)	Alone in Antarctica: The First Woman To Ski Solo Across The Southern Ice by Felicity Aston (Counterpoint)	Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars by Catherine Speck (Reaktion Books)
Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era edited by Lean’tin L. Bracks and Jessie Carney Smith (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Mother Queen of the Middle Ages by Desmond Seward (Pegasus)	Gender Transformation in the Academy by Vasilikie P. Demos (Emerald Group Publishing)
Gendering Women: Identity and Mental Wellbeing Through the Lifecourse by Suzanne Clisby and Julia Holdsworth (Policy Press)	Kammie on First: Baseball’s Dottie Kamenshek by Michelle Houts (Ohio University Press)	Migrants, Work and Social Integration: Women’s Labour in the Turkish Ethnic Economy by Saniye Dedeoglu (Palgrave Macmillan)
Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete by Joan Steidinger (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Textual Liberation: European Feminist Writing in the Twentieth Century edited by Helena Forsas-Scott (Routledge)	The Changing Nature of Eco / Feminism: Telling Stories from Clayoquot Sound by Niamh Moore (University of Washington Press)
The First Lady of Radio: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Historic Broadcasts edited by Stephen Drury Smith (New Press)	The Remaking of Social Contracts: Global Feminists in the 21st Century edited by Gita Sen and Marina Durano (Zed Books)	The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney (Crown Publishing)
The Women’s Liberation Movement in Scotland by Sarah Browne (Manchester University Press)	Women of Power: Half a Century of Female Presidents and Prime Ministers Worldwide by Torild Skard (Policy Press)	Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66 by Annie Pohlman (Routledge)