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.

Critical Perspectives on Gender and Sport edited by Curtis Fogel (Common Ground Research)	Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign Against Convents in Antebellum America by Cassandra L. Yacovazzi (Oxford University Press)	Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape by Nicola Gavey (Routledge)
Push Back, Move Forward: The National Council of Women’s Organizations and Coalition Advocacy by Laura R. Woliver (Temple University Press)	Social Identity and the Law: Race, Sexuality and Intersectionality by Barbara L. Graham (Routledge)	Women and Dictionary-Making: Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography by Lindsay Rose Russell (Cambridge University Press)