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.

Aphrodite’s Daughters: Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Maureen Honey (Rutgers University Press)	Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland: Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience by Azrini Wahidin (Palgrave Macmillan)	Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, 1850–1910 by Lee Skinner (University Press of Florida)
Mattering: Feminism, Science, and Materialism by Victoria Pitts-Taylor (New York University Press)	Men and Women Changing Role of Domestic Violence by Bertha Pulliam-Carlson (Xlibris)	Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination After Fukushima by Aya Hirata Kimura (Duke University Press)
Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan by Kumiko Nemoto (ILR Press)	Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian Policy by Janet Dean (University of Massachusetts Press)	Women and the Politics of Gender in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste: Between Heaven and Earth edited by Sara Niner (Routledge)