Recent Books 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.

Aristotle on Female Animals: A Study of the Generation of Animals by Sophia M. Connell (Cambridge University Press)	Country Boys and Redneck Women: New Essays in Gender and Country Music edited by David Pecknold and Kristine M. McCuster (University Press of Mississippi)	Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Ancient Athens by Esther Eidinow (Oxford University Press)
Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture by Vanita Reddy (Temple University Press)	Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail by Debbie Clarke Moderow (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)	Feminist Experiences: Foucauldian and Phenomenological Investigations by Johanna Oksala (Northwestern University Press)
Gender, Institutions, and Change in Bachelet’s Chile by Georgina Waylen (Palgrave Macmillan)	Girlhood and the Politics of Place edited by Claudia Mitchell and Carrie Rentschler (Berghahn Books)	Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America by Kali Nicole Gross (Oxford University Press)
In Formation: One Woman’s Rise Through the Ranks of the U.S. Air Force by Cheryl Dietrich (Yucca Publishing)	New York, New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Artists in Emerging Practices by Kathy Battista (I.B. Tauris)	No Longer My Constant Bedfellow: Free From the Grip of Domestic Violence by Deborah A. Tremblay (Westbow Press)
Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories edited by Amelia Jones and Erin Silver (Manchester University Press)	The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott (Alfred A. Knopf)	The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business by Jessica Berson (Oxford University Press)
Victoria: Queen, Matriarch, Empress by Jane Ridley (Penguin UK)	Why Congress Needs Women: Bringing Sanity to the House and Senate by Michele A. Paludi (Praeger)	Women, Credit, and Debt In Early Modern Scotland by Cathryn Spece (Manchester University Press)