Feminist critiques of science and medicine
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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Angela Saini
4.05 avg rating — 9,413 ratings 3. 
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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Cordelia Fine
4.08 avg rating — 11,310 ratings 
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,379 ratings 6. 
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
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Elinor Cleghorn
4.11 avg rating — 9,636 ratings 
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Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
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Donna J. Haraway
4.05 avg rating — 230 ratings 9. 
The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction
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Emily Martin
4.10 avg rating — 445 ratings 10. 
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
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Maya Dusenbery
4.17 avg rating — 2,917 ratings 11. 
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
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Abby Norman
3.93 avg rating — 2,651 ratings 12. 
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
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Carolyn Merchant
3.82 avg rating — 632 ratings 13. 
Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine 4.05 avg rating — 840 ratings
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The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980
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Elaine Showalter
4.16 avg rating — 904 ratings 17. 
Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them
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Jessica Taylor
3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings 
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
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Cordelia Fine
3.79 avg rating — 3,505 ratings 
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The Age of Scientific Sexism: How Evolutionary Psychology Promotes Gender Profiling and Fans the Battle of the Sexes
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Mari Ruti
3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings 22. 
The Hidden Malpractice: How American Medicine Treats Women as Patients and Professionals
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Gena Corea
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings 23. 
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
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Clea Koff
4.02 avg rating — 2,953 ratings 24. 
Love, Power and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences
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Hilary Rose
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
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Elaine Morgan
4.14 avg rating — 951 ratings 24. 
Making Women's Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology
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Monica H. Green
4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings 
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Women As Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle over Women's Freedom 4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Ciencia, cyborgs y mujeres: La reinvención de la naturaleza
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Donna J. Haraway
4.15 avg rating — 1,847 ratings 
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Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy
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Melvin Konner
3.65 avg rating — 355 ratings 
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Psychology Gone Astray: A Selection of Racist & Sexist Literature from Early Psychological Research 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
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Olivia Campbell
3.71 avg rating — 5,525 ratings 37. 
Profitable Promises: Essays on Women, Science and Health
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Ruth Hubbard
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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Medicine Women: A Pictoral History of Women Healers
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Elisabeth Brooke
3.76 avg rating — 82 ratings 37. 
Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
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Susan Greenhalgh
3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It 4.10 avg rating — 697 ratings
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Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
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Frans de Waal
4.16 avg rating — 2,025 ratings 44. 
Women Look at Biology Looking at Women: A Collection of Feminist Critiques
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Ruth Hubbard
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History, and Geography of Herbal Medicine
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Holly Bellebuono
4.12 avg rating — 89 ratings 44. 
The Fibromyalgia Story: Medical Authority And Women's Worlds Of Pain 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction
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Faye D. Ginsburg
4.15 avg rating — 61 ratings 
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Science and Gender: A Critique of Biology and Its Theories on Women
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BLEIER (Ruth)
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 50. 
The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies 3.98 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Sad, Mad and Bad: Women and the Mind-Doctors from 1800
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Lisa Appignanesi
3.69 avg rating — 934 ratings 50. 
The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
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Gina Rippon
3.88 avg rating — 2,458 ratings 50. 
Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood
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Allison Yarrow
4.25 avg rating — 225 ratings 
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Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health
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Joanna Kempner
4.22 avg rating — 95 ratings 
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Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
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Gina Rippon
3.88 avg rating — 2,458 ratings 56. 
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
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Mona Chollet
4.06 avg rating — 21,523 ratings 
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Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement
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Wendy L. Rouse
4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings 
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Bleed: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care
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Tracey Lindeman
4.33 avg rating — 424 ratings 66. 
Man-Made Women: How New Reproductive Technologies Affect Women
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Gena Corea
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings 66. 
The Women's Guide to Overcoming Insomnia: Get a Good Night's Sleep Without Relying on Medication
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Shelby Harris
3.82 avg rating — 133 ratings 68. 
The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs
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Gena Corea
4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings 68. 
Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution
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Jennifer Block
4.15 avg rating — 840 ratings 70. 
Reconstructing Babylon: Essays on Women and Technology really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
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Mary Pipher
3.68 avg rating — 6,899 ratings 74.
The Ultimate Colonisation: Reproductive and Genetic Engineering
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Renate Klein
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany
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Barbara Duden
3.91 avg rating — 68 ratings 
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
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Mab Segrest
3.78 avg rating — 187 ratings 
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
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Anne Harrington
4.15 avg rating — 998 ratings 81. 
Parenting Through the Storm: Find Help, Hope, and Strength When Your Child Has Psychological Problems
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Ann Douglas
4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings 82. 
Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Clients in an American Community
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Sue E. Estroff
3.64 avg rating — 33 ratings 83. 
Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis
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Catrine Clay
3.79 avg rating — 278 ratings 84. 
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
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Margaret Mead
3.55 avg rating — 3,149 ratings 84. 
Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women―And What We Can Do About It 4.10 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Women, Science and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies
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Mary Wyer
3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings 
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Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
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Lois W. Banner
3.58 avg rating — 72 ratings 90. 
The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women
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Anushay Hossain
3.66 avg rating — 1,762 ratings 
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Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence against Women 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Gynocide: Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Medical Abuse of Women 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
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Shelley Emling
3.84 avg rating — 1,340 ratings 100. 
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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Richard Rhodes
3.17 avg rating — 3,305 ratings