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.


Catholic Women Confront Their Church:
Stories of Hurt and Hope

by Ceila Viggo Wexler
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

Keep the Damned Women Out:
The Struggle for Coeducation

by Nancy Weiss Malkiel
(Princeton University Press)

Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce
by Susan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm Sergeant
(Cambridge University Press)

Pioneers of the Field:
South Africa’s Women Anthropologists

by Andrew Bank
(Cambridge University Press)

The Gendered Executive:
A Comparative Analysis of Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Chief Executives

edited by Janet M. Martin and Maryanne Borrelli
(Temple University Press)

The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan
by Marcia Yonemoto
(University of California Press)

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