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.

Disrupting the Culture of Silence: Confronting Gender Inequality and Making Change in Higher Education edited by Kristine De Welde and Andi Stepnick (Stylus)	Feminist Community Engagement: Achieving Praxis edited by Susan Van Deventer Iverson and Jennifer Hauver James (Palgrave Macmillan)	Great Women’s Lives: A Celebration in Obituaries edited by Sue Corbett (The History Press)
Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties by Rachel Cooke (Harper)	Jasmine on a String: A Survey of Women Writing English Fiction in India by Margaret Paul Joseph (Oxford University Press)	Lesbian Modernism: Censorship, Sexuality and Genre Fiction by Elizabeth English (Edinburgh University Press)
Midwifery: Global Perspectives, Practices and Challenges by Gordon Dennel (Nova Science Publishers)	Performing the Self: Women’s Lives in Historical Perspective edited by Katie Barclay and Sarah Richardson (Routledge)	Princesses on the Wards: Royal Women in Nursing Through Wars and Revolutions by Coryne Hall (The History Press)
Rape Culture and Spiritual Violence: Religion, Testimony, and Visions of Healing by Gina Messina-Desert (Routledge)	Sport, Gender and Power: The Rise of Roller Derby by Adele Pavlidis and Simone Fullagar (Ashgate Publishing)	Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture by Basuli Deb (Routledge)
Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women’s Authorship by Linda Morra (University of Toronto Press)	Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation by Trimiko Melanin (American Literatures Initiative)	Women Dramatists, Humor, and the French Stage: 1802-1855 by Joyce Johnston (Palgrave Macmillan)