Sexism in Science
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Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
by:
Maya Dusenbery
4.17 avg rating — 2,917 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 6. 
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 — 9,412 ratings 7. 
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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Cordelia Fine
4.08 avg rating — 11,310 ratings 8. 
Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy
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Melvin Konner
3.65 avg rating — 355 ratings 9. 
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race 3.96 avg rating — 112,013 ratings
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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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Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science 3.74 avg rating — 2,176 ratings
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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 14. 
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 15. 
The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
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Elaine Morgan
4.14 avg rating — 950 ratings 
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Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
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Andrea Barnet
4.28 avg rating — 564 ratings 
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Schoolgirls; Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
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Peggy Orenstein
4.05 avg rating — 1,296 ratings 
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Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,205 ratings
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Women's Bodies: A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine
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Edward Shorter
4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
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James Essinger
3.27 avg rating — 1,704 ratings 28. 
A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality & Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century 3.89 avg rating — 28 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 — 176,376 ratings 
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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 
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The Hormone Myth: How Junk Science, Gender Politics, and Lies about PMS Keep Women Down 3.73 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing 4.17 avg rating — 269 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 
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The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine (The Middle Ages Series)
by:
Monica H. Green
4.12 avg rating — 146 ratings 39. 
In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons From 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules
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Karen Karbo
3.55 avg rating — 3,023 ratings 39. 
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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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
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Nathalia Holt
3.87 avg rating — 9,263 ratings 
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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Rachel Swaby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,982 ratings 46. 
The Cornaro: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, Pride And Prodigy Of Venice, 1646 1648 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work Is Done
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Susan J. Douglas
3.87 avg rating — 2,320 ratings 50. 
The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future
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Frank Browning
3.43 avg rating — 221 ratings 50. 
Laura Bassi and Science in 18th Century Europe: The Extraordinary Life and Role of Italy's Pioneering Female Professor
by:
Monique Frize
3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach
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Matthew Dennison
3.67 avg rating — 90 ratings 56. 
A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor
by:
Joe Starita
3.90 avg rating — 912 ratings 56. 
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment
by:
Isobel Grundy
4.58 avg rating — 26 ratings 58. 
Gender, Households, and Society: Unraveling the Threads of the Past and the Present
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Cynthia Robin
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 58. 
Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters: Women of Art and Science
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Ella Reitsma
4.27 avg rating — 30 ratings 60. 
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Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines
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Mona Behan
3.88 avg rating — 329 ratings 
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Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States (Ripley P. Bullen Series) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Fission Girl: Lise Meitner's Escape from Nazi Germany and Her Role in the Manhattan Project
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Melanie Fine
4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings 65. 
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times 4.31 avg rating — 2,717 ratings
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Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
by:
Amanda Adams
3.74 avg rating — 207 ratings 
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Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry (And Government, #55)
by:
Sarah H. Hill
4.05 avg rating — 44 ratings 69. 
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Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
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Deborah Tannen
3.88 avg rating — 6,683 ratings 72. 
Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice 4.34 avg rating — 67 ratings