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.

All-Girls Education from Ward Seminary to Harpeth Hall, 1865-2015 by Mary Ellen Pethel (Arcadia Publishing)	Family Law in Contemporary Iran: Women’s Rights Activism and Shari’a by Marianne Boe (I.B. Tauris)	The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements edited by Rawhide Baksh and Wendy Harcourt (Oxford University Press)
The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’Arte Stage by Rosalind Kerr (University of Toronto Press)	Women in Early America edited by Thomas A. Foster (New York University Press)	Women in Late Life: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age by Martha Holstein (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)