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 Salem Witch: Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse by Daniel A. Gagnon (Westholme Publishing)	Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence by Anita Hill (Viking Books)	Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis by Zaklya Luna and Whitney Pirtle (Routledge)
Female Religious Authority in Shi’i Islam: Past and Present edited by Mirjam Kunkler and Devin J. Stewart (Edinburgh University Press)	Grotesque Touch: Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives by Amy King (University of North Carolina Press)	Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945-1980 by Tanya L. Roth (University of North Carolina Press)
Relation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora edited by Sailaja Krishnamurti and Becky R. Lee (McGill-Queens University Press)	The First Fifteen: How Asian American Women Became Federal Judges by Susan Oki Mollway (Rutgers University Press)	Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence by Julie Pfeiffer (University Press of Mississippi)
Transnational Africana Women’s Fictions by Cheryl Sterling (Routledge)	Women and Leadership Development in College edited by Jennifer M. Pigza et al. (Stylus Publishing)	Women’s Entrepreneurship in STEM Disciplines: Issues and Perspectives edited by Michaela Mari et al. (Springer)