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 Faded Legacy: Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women’s Activism, 1872-1959 by Dave Hall (University of Utah Press)	Challenge and Change: Right-Wing Women, Grassroots Activism, and the Baby Boom Generation by June Melby Benowitz (University Press of Florida)	Church Ladies: Untold Stories of Harlem Women in the Powell Era by Martia G. Goodson (AuthorHouse)
Color Stories: Black Women and Colorism in the 21st Century by JeffriAnne Wilder (Praeger)	Difficult Dialogues About Twenty-First-Century Girls edited by Donna Marie Johnson and Alice E. Ginsberg (State University of New York Press)	Dilemmas of Difference: Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy by Sarah A. Radcliffe (Duke University Press)
Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance by Uri McMillan (New York University Press)	Food and Femininity by Kate Caims and Josee Johnston (Bloomsbury Academic)	How Racism and Sexism Killed Traditional Media: Why the Future of Journalism Depends on Women and People of Color by Joshunda V. Sanders (Praeger)
In Search of Aphrodite: Women, Archetypes and Sex Therapy by Chelsea Wakefield (Routledge)	Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings edited by Joanna Brooks et al. (Oxford University Press)	Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military: The Battle Within America’s Armed Forces by Rosemarie Skaine (Praeger)
The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America by Sarah Deer (University of Minnesota Press)	The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature edited by Ileana Rodriguez and Monica Szurmuk (Cambridge University Press)	The Drowned Muse: Casting the Unknown Woman Across the Tides of Modernity by Anne-Gaelle Saliot (Oxford University Press)
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint by David Potter (Oxford University Press)	Women In This Town: New York, Paris, Melbourne, Tokyo, Madrid and London by Giuseppe Santamaria (Hardie Grant Books)	Women Who Succeed: Strangers in Paradise? by Susan Durbin (Palgrave Macmillan)