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.

Apocalyptic California: Gender in Climate Fiction by MaryKate Messimer (Palgrave Macmillan)	Catching Fire: Women’s Health Activism in Ireland and the Global Movement for Reproductive Justice by Beth Sundstrom and Cara Delay (Oxford University Press)	Digital Frontiers in Gender and Security: Bringing Critical Perspectives Online by Alexis Henshaw (Bristol University Press)
Feminism Against Progress by Mary Harrington (Regnery Press)	Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey by Zeynep K. Korkman (Duke University Press)	In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America by Jacqueline Beatty (New York University Press)
The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women by Leigh Gilmore (Columbia University Press)	On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The First of a New Genus by Susan J. Wolfson (Columbia University Press)	Scarred: A Feminist Journey Through Pain by L. Ayu Saraswati (New York University Press)
Who Would Believe a Prisoner? Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848–1920 edited by Michelle Daniel Jones and Elizabeth Nelson (The New Press)	Women and the Gender of God by Amy Peeler (Eerdmans)	The Women of Mexico’s Cultural Renaissance: Intrepid Post-Revolution Artists and Writers edited by Elena Poniatowska (Palgrave Macmillan)