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)	Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770-1820 by Margaretmary Daley (Camden House)	Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s by Rox Samer (Duke University Press)
Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It’s Different Than You Think) by Reshma Saujani (Atria)	Poor Richard’s Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father by Nancy Rubin Stuart (Beacon Press)	Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser’s Twentieth Century by Rowena Kennedy-Epstein (Cornell University Press)
What Women Want: Gender and Voting in Britain, Japan and the United States by Gill Steel (University of Michigan 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)