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.

American Tomboys, 1850–1915 by Renee N. Sentilles (University of Massachusetts Press)	Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk (Duke University Press)	Celebrity and the Feminist Blockbuster by Anthea Taylor (Palgrave Macmillan)
Gender and Political Violence: Women Changing the Politics of Terrorism by Candice D. Ortbals and Lori M. Poloni-Staudinger (Springer)	Gender, Power, and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China by Jinhua Jia (Columbia University Press)	Governance Feminism: An Introduction by Janet Halley/ (University of Minnesota Press)
Jewish Feminism: Framed and Reframed by Esther Fuchs (Lexington Books)	Orienting Feminism: Media, Activism and Cultural Representation edited by Catherine Dale and Rosemary Overell (Palgrave Macmillan)	Respectability and Reform: Irish American Women’s Activism, 1880-1920 by Tara M. McCarthy (Syracuse University Press)
Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom by Keisha N. Blain (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World by Andrea Barnet (Ecco Press)	War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina by Marie E. Berry (Cambridge University Press)