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.

American Girls: One Woman’s Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister’s Fight to Bring Her Home by Jessica Roy (Scribner)	Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education by Jasmine L. Harris (Broadleaf Books)	Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches From the Civil War to the Twenty-first Century by Janet Dewart Bell (The New Press)
Dorothy Arzner: Interviews edited by Martin F. Norden (University Press of Mississippi)	The Famine Diaspora and Irish American Women’s Writing edited by Marguerite Corporaal et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)	Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China: Redefining Female Identity through Modern Design and Lifestyle by Sandy Ng (Amsterdam University Press)
Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape: Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania’s New Enclosures by Youjin B. Chung (Cornell University Press)	Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson (Scribner)	Women Moralists in Early Modern France by Julie Candler Hayes (Oxford University Press)