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 Laboratory of Her Own:
Women and Science in Spanish Culture

edited by Victoria L. Ketz et al.
(Vanderbilt University Press)

Blowing up the Skirt of History:
Recovered and Reanimated Plays by Early Canadian Women
Dramatists, 1876-1920
edited by Kym Bird
(McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Emotional Landscapes:
Love, Gender, and Migration

edited by Marcelo J. Borges
(University of Illinois Press)

Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime
by Dana M. Olwan
(Ohio State University Press)

I Hate Men
by Pauline Harmange
(Fourth Estate)

Knowing Women:
Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana

by Serena Owusua Dankwa
(Cambridge University Press)

Migrant Women and Work
edited by Anuja Agrawal
(SAGE Publications)

Relations of Power:
Women’s Networks in the Middle Ages

edited by Emma O. Bert et al.
(Bonn University Press)

Sanctuary:
A Memoir

by Emily Rapp Black
(Random House)

Strong Black Girls:
Reclaiming Schools in Their Own Image

by Danielle Apugo et al.
(Teachers College Press)

Surrealist Women’s Writing:
A Critical Exploration

by Anna Watz
(Manchester University Press)

Womanist Ethical Rhetoric:
A Call for Liberation and Social Justice in Turbulent Times

edited by Annette D. Madlock and Cerise L. Glenn
(Lexington Books)

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