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.

A History of Pregnancy in Christianity: From Original Sin to Contemporary Abortion Debates by Anne Stensvold (Routledge)	Age Becomes Us: Bodies and Gender in Time by Leni Marshall (State University of New York Press)	Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture 1640-1680 by Rachel Adcock (Ashgate Publishing)
Beyond the Band of Brothers: The U.S. Military and the Myth that Women Can’t Fight by Megan MacKenzie (Cambridge University Press)	Changing India: A Muslim Woman Speaks by Iqbalunnisa Hussain (Oxford University Press)	Constance Maynard’s Passions: Religion, Sexuality, and an English Educational Pioneer, 1849-1935 by Pauline A. Phipps (University of Toronto Press)
Emerging from the Shadows: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, Vol. 1-4, 1860-1960 by Maurine St. Gaudens (Schiffer Publishing)	Gender, Politics, and Performance in South Asia edited by Sheema Kermani et al. (Oxford University Press)	Identity, Youth, and Gender in the Korean American Church by Christine J. Hong (Palgrave Pivot)
Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England by Olivia Weisser (Yale University Press)	Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia: A Cultural Critique edited by Brenda L.H. Marina (Lexington Books)	Navigating Loss in Women’s Contemporary Memoir by Amy-Katerini Prodromou (Palgrave Macmillan)
North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times edited by Michele Gillespie and Sally G. McMillen (University of Georgia Press)	Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story Of Women In The 1950’s by Virginia Nicholson (Viking Books)	Polygyny: What It Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands by Debra Majeed (University Press of Florida)
SlutWalk: Feminism, Activism and Media by Kaitlynn Mendes (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Microfinance Mirage: The Politics of Poverty, Social Capital and Women’s Empowerment in Ethiopia by Esayas Bekele Geleta (Ashgate Publishing)	Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence by Sara Moistener (Oxford University Press)
Virtuous Necessity: Conduct Literature and the Making of the Virtuous Woman in Early Modern England by Jessica Murphy (University of Michigan Press)	Women, Peace and Security: Repositioning Gender in Peace Agreements by Sahla Aroussi (Intersentia)	Young People’s Understandings of Men’s Violence Against Women by Nancy Lombard (Ashgate Publishing)