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.

Cult TV Heroines: Angels, Aliens and Amazons by Catriona Miller (Bloomsbury Academic)	Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity Into the Twenty-First Century by Alyson K. Spurgas (Ohio State University Press)	Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon by Nicola Pratt (University of California Press)
Gender, Law and Material Culture: Immobile Property and Mobile Goods in Early Modern Europe by Annette Caroline Cremer (Routledge)	Gender, Symbolism and Organizational Cultures by Silvia Gherardi (SAGE Publications)	Launching While Female: Smashing the System That Holds Women Entrepreneurs Back by Susanne Althoff (Beacon Press)
Politicizing Rape and Pornography: 1970s Feminist Movements in France and Norway by Trine Rogg Korsvik (Palgrave Macmillan)	Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark (Alfred A. Knopf)	Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture edited by Carolyn E. Sachs et al. (Routledge)
Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams by Tammy L. Kernodle (University of Illinois Press)	Victorian Women and Wayward Reading: Crises of Identification by Marisa Palacious Knox (Cambridge University Press)	Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges edited by Darren Newbury et al. (Routledge)