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.

American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser (Viking Books)	Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy by Ray Acheson (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Challenging Women’s Agency and Activism in Early Modernity edited by Merry Wiesner-Hanks (Amsterdam University Press)
Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China by Hsiao-wen Cheng (University of Washington Press)	Human Trafficking and the Feminization of Poverty: Structural Violence in Cambodia by Yuko Shimazaki (Lexington Books)	Just as I Am: A Memoir by Cicely Tyson (HarperCollins)
Legal Capacity & Gender: Realising the Human Right to Legal Personhood and Agency of Women, Disabled Women, and Gender Minorities by Anna Arstein-Kerstake (Springer)	Revisiting Women’s Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China by Lingzhen Wang (Duke University Press)	Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda by Vanessa S. Oliveira (University of Wisconsin Press)
Templates for Authorship: American Women’s Literary Autobiography of the 1930s by Windy Counsell Petrie (University of Massachusetts Press)	The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis edited by Emily Jones et al. (Zed Books)	The Sexual Politics of Jane Eyre: Representations of Fear and the Construction of Text in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre by Ann Erskine (Edward Everett Root)
Where Is Juliet Stuart Poyntz? Gender, Spycraft, and Anti-Stalinism in the Early Cold War by Denise M. Lynn (University of Massachusetts Press)	Women and the Decade of Commemorations edited by Oona Frawley (Indiana University Press)	Writing the Modern Family: Contemporary Literature, Motherhood and Neoliberal Culture by Roberta Garrett (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)