Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

books2Women 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.


Black Girls and Adolescents:
Facing the Challenges

edited by Cahterine Fisher Collins
(Praeger)

Creating a College That Works:
Audrey Cohen and Metropolitan College of New York

by Grace G. Roosevelt
(State University of New York Press)

Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence:
The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944

by Elissa Mainlander
(Michigan State University Press)

In Search of the New Woman:
Middle Class Women and Work in Britain, 1870-1914

by Gillian Sutherland
(Cambridge University Press)

New Views on Pornography:
Sexuality, Politics, and the Law

by Lynn Cornella and Shira Tarrant
(Praeger)

Sex and Unisex:
Fashion, Feminism, and the Sexual Revolution

by Jo B. Paoletti
(Indiana University Press)

Simone de Beauvoir:
Feminist Writings

edited by Margaret A. Simons et al.
(University of Illinois Press)


Some Men:
Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women

by Michael A. Messner et al.
(Oxford University Press)


Striking Beauties:
Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000

by Michelle Haberland
(University of Georgia Press)

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development
edited by Anne Coles et al.
(Routledge)

Women in Contemporary Indian Society
by Seema Pandey
(Rawat Publications)

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