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.

Designing Women, Dialogues with Pioneering Women Designers (1850-1950) by John S. Elmo (Friesen Press)	Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny by Holly Madison (Dey Street Books)	European Women’s Movements and Body Politics: The Struggle for Autonomy edited by Joyce Outshoorn (Palgrave Macmillan)
Gendering the International Asylum and Refugee Debate: Second Edition by Jane Freedman (Palgrave Macmillan)	Jean Gerson and Gender: Rhetoric and Politics in Fifteenth-Century France by Nancy McLoughlin (Palgrave Macmillan)	Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed by Eric Woodard and Tara Hanks (BearManor Media)
Jewels of Allah: The Untold Story of Women in Iran by Nina Ansary (Revela Press)	Models for Movers: Irish Women’s Emigration to America by Ide B. O’Carroll (Attic Press)	No One Will Let Her Live: Women’s Struggle for Well-Being in a Delhi Slum by Claire Snell-Rood (University of California Press)
Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite by E.T. Dailey (Brill Academic Publishing)	The Rival Queens: Catherine de’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom by Nancy Goldstone (Little, Brown & Co.)	Women at War edited by Elspeth Cameron Ritchie and Anne L. Naclerio (Oxford University Press)