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.

Gender and the Environment by Nicole Detraz (Polity)	Female Olympians: A Mediated Socio-Cultural and Political-Economic Timeline by Linda Fuller (Palgrave Macmillan)	Florida’s Minority Trailblazers: The Men and Women Who Changed the Face of Florida Government by Susan MacManus (University Press of Florida)
Moving Performances: Divas, Iconicity, and Remembering the Modern Stage by Jeanne Scheper (Rutgers University Press)	Pioneering African-American Women in the Advertising Business: Biographies of MAD Black WOMEN by Judy Foster Davis (Routledge)	Political Acts: Women in Northern Irish Theatre, 1921-2012 by Fiona Coleman Coffey (Syracuse University Press)
Silent Partners: Women as Public Investors During Britain’s Financial Revolution, 1690-1750 by Amy M. Froide (Oxford University Press)	The Uses of Darkness: Women’s Underworld Journeys, Ancient and Modern by Laurie Brands Gagne (University of Notre Dame Press)	Women’s Bands in America: Performing Music and Gender edited by Jill M. Sullivan (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
Women in Mexican Politics: A Study of Representation in a Renewed Federal and Democratic State by Fernanda Vidal Correa (Lexington Books)	Women Officeholders and the Role Models Who Pioneered the Way by Karen Owen (Lexington Books)	Writing Beloveds: Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender by Aileen Feng (University of Toronto Press)