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.

Agente: Female Secret Agents in World Wars, Cold Wars and Civil Wars by Douglas Boyd (The History Press)	Childhood and Tween Girl Culture: Family, Media and Locality by Fiona MacDonald (Palgrave Macmillan)	Complicating the Female Subject: Gender, National Myths, and Genre in Polish Women’s Inter-War Drama by Joanna Kot (Academic Studies Press)
Digital Platforms and Feminist Film Discourse: Women’s Cinema 2.0 by Rosanna Maule (Palgrave Macmillan)	Girls and Juvenile Justice: Power, Status, and the Social Construction of Delinquency by Carla P. Davis (Palgrave Macmillan)	Hebrew Women Join the Forces: Jewish Women From Palestine in the British Forces During the Second World War by Anat Granit-Hacohen (Vallentine Mitchell)
Journeys and Journals: Women’s Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora by Carol Allen (Peter Lang International)	Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945–1964 by Jennifer Coates (Hong Kong University Press)	Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-Balanced Leadership by Melissa Greenwell (Greenleaf Book Group Press)
Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Pre-Revolutionary Cinema by Rachel Morley (I.B. Tauris)	Smart Girls: Success, School, and the Myth of Post-Feminism by Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby (University of California Press)	The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word by Marian Wilson Kimber (University of Illinois Press)
The Rising Consciousness of Female Veteran Students: A Guide for Student Affairs Professionals and Teaching Faculty by Natesha Smith (Stylus Publishing)	The Women of Easter: Encounter the Savior With Mary of Bethany, Mary of Nazareth, and Mary Magdalene by Liz Curtis Higgs (WaterBrook)	Transgressive Typologies: Constructions of Gender and Power in Early Tang China by Rebecca Doran (Harvard University Asian Center)
We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles edited by Patrizia Gentile et al. (University of British Columbia Press)	Why Women Rebel: Understanding Women’s Participation in Armed Rebel Groups by Alexis Leanna Henshaw (Routledge)	Women’s Writing in Colombia: An Alternative History by Cherilyn Elston (Palgrave Macmillan)