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.

Ecofeminism in Dialogue edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Sam Mickey (Lexington Books)	Embodying the Sacred: Women Mystics in Seventeenth-Century Lima by Nancy E. Van Deusen (Duke University Press)	Knowing Her Place: Positioning Women in Science by Valerie Bevan and Carolina Gatrell (Edward Elgar Publishing)
Muslim Women Speak: Of Dreams and Shackles by Ghazala Jamil (SAGE Publications)	Rethinking Japanese Feminism by Julia C. Bullock and Ayako Kano (University of Hawaii Press)	Sometimes You Have to Cross When It Says Don’t Walk: A Memoir of Breaking Barriers by Lesley Visser (BenBella Books)
The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century by Kyla Schuller (Duke University Press)	The Extraordinary Archive of Arthur J. Munby: Photographing Class and Gender in the Nineteenth Century by Sarah Edge (I.B. Tauris)	The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union edited by Melanie Ilic (Palgrave Macmillan)
Understanding Women’s Land Rights: Gender Discrimination in Ownership edited by Prem Chowdry (SAGE Publications)	Women and Borders: Refugees, Migrants and Communities edited by Seema Shekhawat and Emanuela C. Del Re (I.B. Tauris)	Women and Exilic Identity in the Hebrew Bible edited by Katherine E. Southwood and Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor (T&T Clark)