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.


Art Monsters:
Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

by Lauren Elkin
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Chasing Bright Medusas:
A Life of Willa Cather

by Benjamin Taylor
(Viking Books)

Data Baby:
My Life in a Psychological Experiment

by Susannah Breslin
(Legacy Lit)

The Evolution of the Gender Pay Gap:
A Comparative Perspective

edited by Frances Hamilton and Elizabeth Griffiths
(Routledge)

Performance All the Way Down:
Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference

by Richard O. Prum
(University of Chicago Press)

Strangers in the Family:
Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia

by Gun-Quan Seng
(Southeast Asia Program Publications)

Women’s Imprisonment in Eastern Europe:
‘Sitting out Time’

by Arta Jalili Idrissi
(Emerald Publishing)

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