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.

A Notorious Woman: Anne Royall in Jacksonian America by Elizabeth J. Clapp (University of Virginia Press)	A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls by Jessica Spotswood (Candlewick)	Adele Briscoe Looscan: Daughter of the Republic by Laura McLemore (Texas Christian University Press)
Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work by Gillian Thomas (St. Martin’s Press)	Constructive Feminism: Women’s Spaces and Women’s Rights in the American City by Daphne Spain (Cornell University Press)	Gender and Peacebuilding by Claire Duncanson (Polity)
In the Courts of Religious Ladies: Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents by Giancarla Periti (Yale University Press)	Irish Feminist Future by Claire Bracken (Routledge)	New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment: Feminist and Material Resolutions by Carla Lam (Ashgate Publishing)
Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering by Cynthia R. Wallace (Columbia University Press)	The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography by Elaine Showalter (Simon & Schuster)	The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder edited by William Anderson (Harper)
The Value of Emily Dickinson by Mary Loeffelholz (Cambridge University Press)	What Works: Gender Equality by Design by Iris Bohnet (Belknap Press)	When Women Win: EMILY’s List and the Rise of Women in American Politics by Ellen R. Malcolm with Craig Unger (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)