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 Directors – Quick Takes:
Movies and Popular Culture

by Christina N. Baker
(Rutgers University Press)

Building Mentorship Networks to Support Black Women:
A Guide to Succeeding in the Academy

edited by Bridget Turner Kelly and Sharon Fries-Britt
(Routledge)

Chick TV:
Antiheroines and Time Unbound

by Yael Levy
(Syracuse University Press)

Communist Poland:
A Jewish Woman’s Experience

by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
(Lexington Books)

Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s
by Rox Samer
(Duke University Press)

Unfinished Spirit:
Muriel Rukeyser’s Twentieth Century

by Rowena Kennedy-Epstein
(Cornell University Press)

Woman:
The American History of an Idea

by Lillian Faderman
(Yale University Press)

Woman Up:
Invoking Feminism in Quality Television

by Julia Havas
(Wayne State University Press)

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