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.

Agency, Gender and Economic Developent in the World Economy 1850–2000: Testing the Sen Hypothesis edited by Jan Luiten van Zanden et al. (Routledge)	Circles of Sisterhood: A History of Mission, Service, and Fellowship in Mennonite Women’s Organizations by Anita Hooley Yoder (Herald Press)	Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada by Heather Davis (McGill-Queens University Press)
Gender and Sexuality in Stoic Philosophy by Malin Grahn-Wilder (Palgrave Macmillan)	Health Advocacy, Inc.: How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement by Sharon Batt (University of British Columbia Press)	(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work by Brooke Erin Duffy (Yale University Press)
Peacebuilding Through Women’s Community Development: Wee Women’s Work in Northern Ireland by Amanda E. Donahoe (Palgrave Macmillan)	Shame, the Church and the Regulation of Female Sexuality by Miryam Clough (Routledge)	The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military edited by Rachel Woodward and Claire Duncanson (Palgrave Macmillan)
The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Disease, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition by Katherine Paugh (Oxford University Press)	Women in the Museum: Lessons From the Workplace by Joan H. Baldwin and Anne W. Ackerson (Routledge)	Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy by Alexandra Coller (Routledge)