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.

Female Stars of British Cinema: The Women in Question by Melanie Williams (Edinburgh University Press)	Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Maternal Imagination by Jenifer Buckley (Palgrave Macmillan)	Into Silence and Servitude: How American Girls Became Nuns, 1945-1965 by Brian Titley (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck by Johanna Luthman (Oxford University Press)	Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers by Vike Martina Plock (Edinburgh University Press)	Responding to Human Trafficking: Dispossession, Colonial Violence, and Resistance Among Indigenous and Racialized Women by Julie Kaye (University of Toronto Press)
The Meaning of Leisure: Definitions and Practices Among Migrant and Non-Migrant Women in an Urban Space by Vania L. Sandoval (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Unspoken Code: A Businesswoman’s No-Nonsense Guide to Making It In the Corporate World by Marja L. Norris (Greenleaf Book Group)	The Womanist Preacher: Proclaiming Womanist Rhetoric from the Pulpit by Kimberly P. Johnson (Lexington Books)
Wartime Sexual Violence: From Silence to Condemnation of a Weapon of War by Kerry F. Crawford (Georgetown University Press)	Women in Fifties Britain: A New Look edited by Penny Tinkler et al. (Routledge)	Women Soldiers and Citizenship in Israel: Gendered Encounters With the State by Edna Lomsky-Fedeer and Orna Sasson-Levy (Routledge)