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. As an Amazon Associate, WIAReport will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases.

Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.

A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science by Rita Colwell and Sharon Bertsch McGrayne (Simon and Schuster)	All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women’s Right to Vote by Laura Kumin (Pegasus Books)	Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Cathrine Cho (Henry Holt)	Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood by Margot Mifflin (Counterpoint)	Miss-representation: Women, Literature, Sex and Culture edited by Clare Gorman (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers)
Seeing Women, Strengthening Democracy: How Women in Politics Foster Connected Citizens by Magda Hinojosa and Miki Caul Kittilson (Oxford University Press)	Testing Tolerance: Addressing Controversy in the Journalism and Mass Communication Classroom edited by Candi Carter Olson and Tracey Everbach (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of Women edited by Fanny M. Cheung and Diane F. Halpern (Cambridge University Press)
What Girls Need: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, and Resilient Women by Marisa Porges (Viking Books)	Why Women Hunt by K.J. Houtman (Wild River Press)	Women and Prison edited by Jada Hector (Springer)