Women
What’s her Name: A History of the World in 80 Lost Women
What’s Her Name: A History of the World in 80 Lost Women is exactly the book I would have expected from the creators of the popular What’sHerName podcast. Olivia Meikle and Katie Nelson not only tell the stories of forgotten women with their trademark combination of wit, enthusiasm and rock-solid research, they use those stories…
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The Queens of Animation
Nathalia Holt’s The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History is a good example of what has become a genre in the world of women’s history: the exploration of a group of women within an industry or profession whose contribution was critical and…
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In which I finally review Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science—and the World
Journalist Rachel Swaby’s Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science—and the World is the source of one of my favorite descriptions of the work I do as a writer of women’s history: “revealing a hidden history of the world.” Swaby was inspired to write her collective biography of groundbreaking women scientists by an obituary which appeared…
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