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.


Our Voices Must Be Heard:
Women and the Vote in Ontario

by Tarah Brookfield
(University of British Columbia Press)

Performing Women:
Gender, Self, and Representation in Late-Medieval Metz

by Susannah Crowder
(Manchester University Press)

Sensual Excess:
Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance

by Amber Jamilla Musser
(New York University Press)

Sister Saints:
Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy

by Colleen McDannell
(Oxford University Press)

Undermining Intersectionality:
The Perils of Powerblind Feminism

by Barbara Tomlinson
(Temple University Press)

Women in the New Testament World
by Susan E. Hylen
(Oxford University Press)

Women Leading Justice:
Experiences and Insights

by Elaine Gunnison and Jacqueline B. Helfgott
(Routledge)


Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain:
Reading, Ownership, Circulation

edited by Leah Knight et al.
(University of Michigan Press)

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