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 Women’s History of the Beatles by Christine Feldman-Barrett (Bloomsbury Academic)	America’s Early Women Celebrities: The Famous and Scorned from Martha Washington to Silent Film Star Mary Fuller by Angela Firkus (McFarland)	Companion to Feminist Studies edited by Nancy A. Naples (Wiley-Blackwell)
Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America by Christine Leigh Heyrman (Alfred A. Knopf)	First and Only: A Black Woman’s Guide to Thriving at Work and in Life by Jennifer R. Farmer (Broadleaf Books)	Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism by Terri Somone Francis (Indiana University Press)
Margaret Murray Washington: The Life and Times of a Career Clubwoman by Sheena Harris (University of Tennessee Press)	Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights by Ayaan Hirst Ali (Harper)	Thanks for Typing: Remembering Forgotten Women in History edited by Juliana Dresvina (Bloomsbury Academic)
The Betrayal of Substance: Death, Literature, and Sexual Difference in Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit” by Mary C. Rawlinson (Columbia University Press)	The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro (Grove Press)	Women, Aging, and Art: A Crosscultural Anthology edited by Frima Fox Hofrichterand Midori Yoshimoto (Bloomsbury Visual Arts)