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.

Beyond Speech: Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy edited by Mari Mikkola (Oxford University Press)	Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640: Turning the World Upside Down by Susan D. Amussen and David W. Underdown (Bloomsbury Academic)	Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South by Leonad Rogoff (University of North Carolina Press)
Making My Pitch: A Woman’s Baseball Odyssey by Ila Jane Borders (University of Nebraska Press)	Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary by Stefanie Van de Peer (Edinburgh University Press)	Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Dubcombe (Chicago Review Press)
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton by Susan Bordo (Melville House)	The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers by Elizabeth Cobbs (Harvard University Press)	The Lives of Girls and Women From the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture, 1500-1630 by Bernadette Andrea (University of Toronto Press)
Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves by Marie Jenkins Schwartz (University of Chicago Press)	Translation, Ideology and Gender edited by Carmen Camus Camus and Cristina Gamez Castro (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)	Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus by Laura Kipnis (Harper)