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Non-fiction books

These are all books that I have read to some degree.

• Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer, by Kathy Kleiman (2022).
• Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II, by Catherine Musemeche (2022).
• Bitch: On the Female of the Species, by Lucy Cooke (2022).
• Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, by Amy Stanley (2020)
• A Black Women's History of the United States, by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross (2020).
• Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke (2021).
• The Bonobo Sisterhood: Revolution Through Female Alliance by Diane Rosenfeld.
• When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, by Kara Cooney (2018).
• The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain by Gina Rippon (2019).
• Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Struggle for Menstrual Justice, by Anita Diamant.
• The Sewing Girl's Tale, by John Sweet. 2022. Summary: The first rape case in the United States
• The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth, by Beth Allison Barr. 2021. Summary: Biblical patriarchy is not supported by the text
• Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, by Marjorie Shostak. 1981. Summary: The bioigraphy of a !Kung woman
• Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology, by Jess Zimmerman. 2021. Summary: Personal essays interpreting Greek mythology through the lens of misogyny
• The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live, by Danielle Dreilinger . 2021. Summary: Home economics is a field with varied applications, from Betty Crocker to consultants for industry to 'scientific' usage of the kitchen
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, by Azar Nafisi. 2003. Summary: An Iranian college professor recounts the Iranian revolution and her argument for the power of Western literature
• Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life, by Emily Nagoski. 2015. Summary: Understanding the science behind the female sex drive and sexuality in general
• The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution, by Cailin O'Connor. 2019. Summary: Inequality is a stable and productive equilibrium and fighting it will require continual effort
• Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, by Esther Duflo, Abhijit V. Banerjee. 2011. Summary: An evidence-based approach to global poverty, with particular attention paid to how poor women find solutions to poverty
• Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right, by Angela Nagle. 2017. Summary: Understanding the role misogyny plays in the 'transgressive' online right
• Women, Men and Language: A Sociolinguistic Account of Gender Differences in Language, by Jennifer Coates. 1986. Summary: Countering linguistic assumptions about differences in women and men's speech
• Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World, by Rosalind Miles. 1988. Summary: An attempt at a grand history of women throughout the world
• Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence, by Dale Peterson, Richard Wrangham. 1996. Summary: Primatology, female behavior in apes, and looking at male violence
• Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol, by Mallory O'Meara. 2021. Summary: Women's involvement with alcohol as brewers, sellers, and barmen
• At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst, by Carol Lee Flinders. 1998. Summary: Spiritual wisdom and feminism don't have to be at odds with each other, and in fact reinforce each other
• Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex, by Finn Mackay. 2021. Summary: A history of radical feminism and the tensions it has had over gender, as well as a dive into female masculinity
• How to Suppress Women's Writing, by Joanna Russ. 1983. Summary: The myriad ways in which women's writing is suppressed in history
• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Pérez. 2019. Summary: The design of many things is biased against women's needs
• Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, by Monique W. Morris. 2016. Summary: Black girls experience a 'school-to-suspension' pipeline, are unfairly punished, and experience a lot of stress that makes the schooling experience harder.'
• The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women, by Sharon Moalem. 2020. Summary:
• Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office, by Lynn Peril. 2011. Summary:
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot, by Mikki Kendall. 2020. Summary:
• Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health, by Joanna Kempner. 2014. Summary:
• Females, by Andrea Long Chu. 2019. Summary:
• The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan. 1963. Summary:
• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, by Kate Moore. 2017. Summary:
• Dark Continent of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability, by E. Frances White. 2001. Summary:
• Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, by Silvia Federici. 2004. Summary:
• Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution, by Ji-li Jiang. 1997. Summary:
• Right Wing Women, by Andrea Dworkin. 1983. Summary: