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.

Attack of the 50 Ft. Women: How Gender Equality Can Save the World! by Catherine Mayer (HQ)	Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History by Bridget Quinn (Chronicle Books)	Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping: Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States by Sabrina Karim and Kyle Beardsley (Oxford University Press)
Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing and the ‘Scandalous Memoir’ by Caroline Breashears (Palgrave Pivot)	Feminist Activism and Digital Networks: Between Empowerment and Vulnerability by Aristea Folopoulou (Palgrave Macmillan)	Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India: Women’s Health Care in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Bengal by Sujata Mukherjee (Oxford University Press)
Historicizing Post-Discourses: Postfeminism and Postracialism in United States Culture by Tanya Ann Kennedy (State University of New York Press)	Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen by Giles Tremlett (Bloomsbury Academic)	The Other Exchange: Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature by Denys Van Renen (University of Nebraska Press)
The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the 21st Century by Stephen Marche (Simon & Schuster)	The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention by Abigail T. Brooks (New York University Press)	We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere by Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel (Atria Books)