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.

American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague – Civil War "Belle of the North" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal by John Oller (Da Capo Press)	Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India by Deepti Misri (University of Illinois Press)	Contestation and Compliance: Retrieving Women’s ‘Agency’ From Puranic Traditions by Jaya Tyagi (Oxford University Press)
Contested Terrain: Reflections With Afghan Women Leaders by Sally L. Kitch (University of Illinois Press)	Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale: From Pandora’s Box to Amanda Knox by Stevie Simkin (Palgrave Macmillan)	Feminism and Religion in the 21st Century: Technology, Dialogue, and Expanding Borders edited by Gina Messina-Desert and Rosemary Radford Ruether (Routledge)
Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin Downey (Nan A. Talese)	Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured by Kathryn Harrison (Doubleday)	Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin by David Ritz (Little, Brown & Co.)
She’s a Knockout! A History of Women in Fighting Sports by L.A. Jennings (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Song of My Life: A Biography of Margaret Walker by Carolyn J. Brown (University Press of Mississippi)	Stage Mothers: Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660-1830 edited by Laura Engel and Elaine M. McGirr (Bucknell University Press)
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore (Alfred A. Knopf)	The Woman I Wanted to Be by Diane von Furstenberg (Simon & Schuster)	Watching Women’s Liberation, 1970: Feminism’s Pivotal Year on the Network News by Bonnie J. Dow (University of Illinois Press)