Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

books2Women 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.


Everyday Discourses of Menstruation:
Cultural and Social Perspectives

by Victoria Louise Newton
(Palgrave Macmillan)

Feminist Theory Reader:
Local and Global Perspectives

edited by Carole R. McCann and Seung-kyung Kim
(Routledge)

Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400─1800
edited by James Daybed and Svante Norrhem
(Routledge)

Handbook on Gender in World Politics
edited by Jill Stearns and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage
(Edward Elgar Publishing)

Horseback Schoolmarm:
Montana, 1953–1954

by Margot Liberty
(University of Oklahoma Press)

Live Form:
Women, Ceramics, and Community

by Jenni Sorkin
(University of Chicago Press)

Ovid’s Women of the Year:
Narratives of Roman Identity in the Fasti

by Angeline Chiu
(University of Michigan Press)

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