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.

Debating Women’s Citizenship in India, 1930-1960 by Annie Devenish (Bloomsbury Academic)	Empresses of Late Byzantium: Foreign Brides, Mediators and Pious Women by Petra Melichar (Peter Lang International Publishers)	Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life by Darcey Steinke (Sarah Crichton Books)
Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall by Courtney Pace (University of Georgia Press)	Gender, War, and World Order: A Study of Public Opinion by Richard C. Eichenberg (Cornell University Press)	Mothering From the Field: The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research edited by Bahiyyah M. Muhammad and Melanie-Angela Neuilly (Rutgers University Press)
Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa by Akemi Johnson (The New Press)	Palestinian Women and Muslim Family Law in the Mandate Period by Elizabeth Brownson (Syracuse University Press)	Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema by Susan Potter (University of Illinois Press)
Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir by Ather Zia (University of Washington Press)	The Virgin Mary Across Cultures: Devotion Among Costa Rican Catholic and Finnish Orthodox Women by Elina Vuola (Routledge)	To Exist Is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe edited by Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande (Pluto Press)