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 History of Britain in 21 Women by Jenni Murray (Oneworld Publications)	Coercion and Women Co-Offenders: A Gendered Pathway Into Crime by Charlotte Barlow (Policy Press)	The Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy by Jessica Lake (Yale University Press)
Indigenous Women’s Movements in Latin America: Gender and Ethnicity in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia by Stephanie Rousseau and Anahi Morales Hudon (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Mothers of Manipur: Twelve Women Who Made History by Teresa Rehman (Zubaan Books)	Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction by Shirin Edwin (Northwestern University Press)
Science of the Seance: Transnational Networks and the Gendered Bodies in the Study of Psychic Phenomena, 1918-40 by Beth A. Robertson (University of British Columbia Press)	Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature by Kate Houlden (Routledge)	Women Workers’ Education, Life Narratives and Politics: Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies by Maria Tamboukou (Palgrave Macmillan)