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.

American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World During the Early Cold War by Jennifer Helgren (Rutgers University Press)	At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present by Maria DiBattista and Deborah Nord (Princeton University Press)	Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession With Appearance Hurts Girls and Women by Renee Engeln (Harper)
Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C. by Treva B. Lindsey (University of Illinois Press)	Earline’s Pink Party: The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman by Elizabeth Findley Shores (University of Alabama Press)	Gender, Psychology, and Justice: The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System edited by Corinne C. Datchi and Julie R. Ancis (New York University Press)
Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze by Charlotte Jansen (Laurence King Publishing)	Risk, Pregnancy and Childbirth edited by Kirstie Coxon et al. (Routledge)	Silk Stockings and Socialism: Philadelphia’s Radical Hosiery Workers From the Jazz Age to the New Deal by Sharon McConnell-Sidorick (University of North Carolina Press)
The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and the Politics of Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic by Elizabeth S. Manley (University Press of Florida)	The Technoscientific Witness of Rape: Contentious Histories of Law, Feminism, and Forensic Science by Andrea Quinlan (University of Toronto Press)	Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History by Zoe Waxman (Oxford University Press)