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.

Becoming Strong: Impoverished Women and the Struggle to Overcome Violence by Laura Huey and Ryan Broll (University of Toronto Press)	Edith’s War: Writings of a Red Cross Worker and Lifelong Champion of Social Justice by Peter A. Witt (Texas A&M University Press)	Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore by Breanne Fahs (University of Washington Press)
Gender Roles in American Life: A Documentary History of Political, Social, and Economic Changes edited by Constance L. Shehan (ABC-CLIO)	Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took On the Army During World War II by Sandra M. Bolzenius (University of Illinois Press)	Heroines of the Medieval World by Sharon Bennett Connolly (Amberley Publishing)
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxanne Gay (Harper)	Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics by Alexandra M. Nickliss (Bison Books)	Shattering Silences: Strategies to Prevent Sexual Assault, Heal Survivors, and Bring Assailants to Justice by Christopher Johnston (Skyhorse Publishing)
Surfing, Sex, Genders and Sexualities by Lisa Hunter (Routledge)	The Action-Adventure Heroine: Rediscovering an American Literary Character, 1697–1895 by Sandra Wilson Smith (University of Tennessee Press)	Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast by Gina M. Martino (University of North Carolina Press)