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.

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by Damaris Hill (Bloomsbury Publishing)	Close Encounters of Another Kind: Women and Development Economics by Devaki Jain (SAGE Publications)	Female Railway Workers in World War II by Susan Major (Pen and Sword Transport)
Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire by Elaine Stratford (Rowman & Littlefield International Publishers)	Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency by Jasbir Jain (SAGE Publications)	Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France by Katie Jarvis (Oxford University Press)
Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide by Elisabeth Jay Friedman (Duke University Press)	The Time Has Come: Why Men Must Join the Gender Equality Revolution by Michael Kaufman (Counterpoint)	Troublesome Women: Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania by Erica Rhodes Hayden (Pennsylvania State University Press)