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.

Health Advocacy, Inc.: How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement by Sharon Batt (University of British Columbia Press)	Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century by Pamela L. Cheek (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Smart, Successful, and Abused: The Unspoken Problem of Domestic Violence and High-Achieving Women by Angela Mailis (Sutherland House)
The Challenge Of Local Feminisms: Women’s Movements In Global Perspective edited by Amrita Basu (Routledge)	The Inclusion Calculation: Why Men Appropriate Women’s Representation by Melody E. Valdini (Oxford University Press)	The Matter of Virtue: Women’s Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare by Holly A. Crocker (University of Pennsylvania Press)