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 Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism by Maggie Humm (Routledge)	Black Women’s Portrayals on Reality Television: The New Sapphire edited by Donnetrice C. Allison (Lexington Books)	Female Beauty Systems: Beauty As Social Capital in Western Europe and the United States, Middle Ages to the Present edited by Christine Adams and Tracy Adams (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
Feminist Legal Theory (Second Edition): A Primer by Nancy Levit et al. (New York University Press)	Gender and the Jubilee: Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri by Sharon Romeo (University of Georgia Press)	Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain’s Cold War Spy Master by Paddy Hayes (Overlook Press)
The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth: Exploring Moral Choices in Childbearing by Helen Watt (Routledge)	Wilde’s Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew by Eleanor Fitzsimmons (Overlook Press)	Women Rough Sleepers in Europe: Homelessness and Victims of Domestic Abuse by Kate Moss and Paramjit Singh (Policy Press)