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.

Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History edited by Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn A. Hain (Oxford University Press)	Female Islamic Education Movements: The Re-Democratisation of Islamic Knowledge by Masooda Bano (Cambridge University Press)	Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression by Caroline Ramazanoglu (Routlege)
Gender in Georgia: Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus edited by Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston (Berghahn Books)	Gender Panic, Gender Policy edited by Vasilikie P. Demos and Marcia Texler Segal (Emerald Publishing)	Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen by Sheila Johnson Kindred (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market by Anju Mary Paul (Cambridge University Press)	Power Up: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy by Magdalena Yesil (Seal Press)	Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World by Konstantinos Kapparis (De Gruyter)
Sex & Secularism by Joan Wallach Scott (Princeton University Press)	Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900 by Laurence Madeline (Yale University Press)	Women in Their Speech Communities: New Perspectives on Language and Sex by Jennifer Coates and Deborah Cameron (Routledge)