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.

Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere (Yale University Press)	Elizabeth I of England Through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 1558–1588 by Estelle Paranque (Palgrave Macmillan)	Equality for Women = Prosperity for All: The Disastrous Global Crisis of Gender Inequality by Augusto Lopez-Claros and Bahiyyih-Nakhjavani (St. Martin’s Press)
Gender and Migration: Transnational and Intersectional Prospects by Anna Amelina and Helma Lutz (Routledge)	Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape by Nicola Gavey (Routledge)	Laurie Simmons: Big Camera / Little Camera by Andrea Karnes (Prestel)
The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist by Ben Barres (MIT Press)	The Gaze of the Caged Woman: Sexuality and Performance in Selected Beckett Plays by Ila Ahlawat (Peter Lang International Publishers)	The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Political Rights edited by Susan Franceschet et a al. (Palgrave Macmillan)
Why Does Patriarchy Persist? by Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider (Polity)	Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation by Zahra Ali (Cambridge University Press)	Work Like a Woman by Mary Portas (Bantam Press)