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.


An Intimate Economy:
Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade

by Alexandra J. Finley
(University of North Carolina Press)

Material Transgressions:
Beyond Romantic Bodies, Genders, Things

edited by Kate Singer et al.
(Liverpool University Press)

The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts
by Emily Romeo
(University of Massachusetts Press)

Wicked Flesh:
Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

by Jessica Marie Johnson
(University of Pennsylvania Press)

Women and Economic Power in Premodern Royal Courts
by Cathleen Sarti
(Arc Humanities Press)

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