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.

About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America by Carol Sanger (Belknap Press)	Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait by Attiya Ahmad (Duke University Press)	Gender, Speech, and Audience Reception in Early Modern England by Kathleen Kalpin Smith (Routledge)
Gendered Transactions: The White Woman in Colonial India, c. 1820-1930 by Indrani Sen (Manchester University Press)	“I Wish to Keep a Record” Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their World by Gail G. Campbell (University of Toronto Press)	Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender by Jack Jacobs (Cambridge University Press)
Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics by Deborah Martin and Deborah Shaw (I.B. Tauris)	Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons edited by Christopher Densmore et al. (University of Illinois Press)	Mothering Through Precarity: Women’s Work and Digital Media by Julie A. Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim (Duke University Press)
Muslim Women and Power: Political and Civic Engagement in West European Societies by Daniele Joly and Khursheed Wadia (Palgrave Macmillan)	Nobody’s Child: How Older Women Say Good-bye to Their Mothers by Diane Sher Lutovich (Routledge)	Teaching Gender: Feminist Pedagogy and Responsibility in Times of Political Crisis edited by Beatriz Revelles-Benavente and Ana M. Gonzalez Ramos (Routledge)
Women and Violence in India: Gender, Oppression and the Politics of Neoliberalism by Tamsin Bradley (I.B. Tauris)	Women Presidents and Prime Ministers in Post-Transition Democracies edited by Veronica Montecinos (Palgrave Macmillan)	Women’s Mental Health Across the Lifespan: Challenges, Vulnerabilities, and Strengths edited by Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett and Lesia M. Ruglass (Routledge)