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.

Beyond Abortion: Roe v. Wade and the Battle for Privacy by Mary Ziegler (Harvard University Press)	Black Girls Rock! Owning Our Magic, Rocking Our Truth by Beveerly Bond (Atria)	Damsels in Design: Women Pioneers in the Automotive Industry, 1939-1959 by Constance Smith (Schiffer Publishing)
Embodied Reckonings: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress by Elizabeth W. Son (University of Michigan Press)	Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries: Gender Justice and Norm Change edited by Caroline Harper et al. (Routledge)	Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives by Rachel Simmons (Harper)
Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley (Duke University Press)	Femininities in the Field: Tourism and Transdisciplinary Research by Brooke A. Porter and Heike A. Schänzel (Channel View Publications)	In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons From 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules by Karen Karbo (National Geographic)
Invisible: How Young Women With Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch (Beacon Press)	Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? by Jane M. Gaines (University of Illinois Press)	Save the Womanhood! Vice, Urban Immorality and Social Control in Liverpool, c. 1900-1976 by Samantha Caslin (Liverpool University Press)
She: A Celebration of Renegade Women by Harriet Hall (Headline Home)	Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television by Joy Press (Atria)	Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender by Barbara J. Risman (Oxford University Press)