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 Imprisonment: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement by Catarina Frois (Palgrave Macmillan)	Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right: Gender and Power in Women’s Antebellum Antislavery Fiction by Holly M. Kent (Kent State University Press)	Like Mother, Like Daughter? How Career Women Influence Their Daughters’ Ambition by Jill Armstrong (Policy Press)
Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics by R. Marie Griffith (Basic Books)	Ms. Prime Minister: Gender, Media, and Leadership by Linda Trimble (University of Toronto Press)	Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D. Farmer (University of North Carolina Press)
Sex, Love, and Migration: Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic by Alexia Bloch (Cornell University Press)	Sovereign Stories and Blood Memories: Native American Women’s Autobiography by Annette Angela Portillo (University of New Mexico Press)	The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap by Yasemin Besen-Cassino (Temple University Press)
The Stalled Revolution: Is Equality for Women an Impossible Dream? by Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds (Emerald Publishing)	This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C. by Jessica Ziparo (University of North Carolina Press)	Violent Women in Contemporary Theatres: Staging Resistance by Nancy Taylor Porter (Palgrave Macmillan)