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.

Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime by Deborah Elizabeth Whaley (University of Washington Press)	Communicating Gender and Advocating Accountability in Global Development by Karin Gwinn Wilkins (Palgrave Macmillan)	Faces of Courage: Intimate Portraits of Women on the Edge by Mark Tuchman (Val De Grace)
Gendered Violence, Abuse and Mental Health in Everyday Lives: Beyond Trauma by Nicole Moulding (Routledge)	Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Survey by Amy E. Randall (Bloomsbury Academic)	Jewish Feeling: Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women’s Writing by Richa Dwor (Bloomsbury Academic)
Joan de Valence: The Life and Influence of a Thirteenth-Century Noblewoman by Linda E. Mitchell (Palgrave Macmillan)	Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols by Rebecca K. Jager (University of Oklahoma Press)	Muses: Women Who Inspire by Farid Abdelouahab (Flammarion)
Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America by April R. Haynes (University of Chicago Press)	The Mirror of Venus: Women in Roman Art by Iain Ferris (Amberley)	The Philosophy of Mary Astell: An Early Modern Theory of Virtue by Jacqueline Broad (Oxford University Press)
The Prettiest Girl on Stage Is a Man: Race and Gender Benders in American Vaudeville by Kathleen B. Casey (University of Tennessee Press)	Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology by Laura Monros-Gaspar (Bristol Classical Press)	Women’s Century: An Illustrated History of the Women’s Institute by Val Horsler (Profile Books)