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.


Black Women’s Yoga History:
Memoirs of Inner Peace

by Stephanie Y. Evans
(State University of New York Press)

Deconstructing Dolls:
Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play

by Miriam Forman-Brunell
(Berghahn Books)

Feminist Geography Unbound:
Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures

edited by Banu Gokariksel
(West Virginia University Press)

Survival as Victory:
Ukrainian Women in the Gulag

by Oksana Kis
(Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute)

The Barbizon:
The Hotel That Set Women Free

by Paulina Bren
(Simon & Schuster)

The Empathy Diaries:
A Memoir

by Sherry Turkle
(Penguin Press)

The Soul of a Woman
by Isabel Allende
(Ballantine Books)

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