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.

The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law edited by Stephanie Hennette Vauchez and Ruth Rubio-Marin (Cambridge University Press)	A Case Study on Gender Inequality by Jade Ambers (Westview Press)	Congo’s Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa by Lesley Nicole Braun (University of Wisconsin Press)
Controlling Reproduction: Women, Society, and State Power by Nancy E. Riley and Nilanjana Chatterjee (Polity)	Defending Women’s Spaces by Karen Ingala Smith (Polity)	Gendered Pluralism by Belinda Robnett and Katherine Tate (University of Michigan Press)
Gender, Property and Politics in the Pacific: Who Speaks for Land? by Rebecca Monson (Cambridge University Press)	Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific: 1880-1920 by Kate Stevens (Bloomsbury Academic)	The Living Philosophy of Edith Stein by Peter Tyler (Bloomsbury Academic)
The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists Around the World edited by Francisca de Haan (Palgrave Macmillan)	Reporting Islam: Muslim Women in the New York Times, 1979-2011 by Suad Joseph (I.B. Tauris)	Roe: The History of a National Obsession by Mary Ziegler (Yale University Press)
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, From the Civil War to the 21st Century by Jasmine Brown (Beacon Press)	Unpacking the Fashion Industry: Gender, Racism and Class in Production by Annie Phizacklea (Routledge)	Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism edited by Amrita Basu and Tanika Sarkar (Cambridge University Press)