8 must-read feminism books like Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell

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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

By: Olivia Campbell

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first…

If you liked the feminism plot in Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

By: Danielle Ofri

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health? Despite mod… read more

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2. Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

By: Maureen Corrigan

5.00

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

"It's not that I don't like people," writes Maureen Corrigan in her introduction to Leave Me Alone,… read more

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3. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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  • historical
  • feminism
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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4. Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

By: Lena Andrews

4.00

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential … read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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5. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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6. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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7. The First Ladies

By: Marie Benedict

4.04

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights a… read more

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  • historical
  • feminism
  • audiobook
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8. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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9. Canary Girls

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiav… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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10. The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

By: Kate Moore

4.30

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and moth… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
"Insane asylum - a place where insanity is made."

-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

"In the end, this is a book about power. Who wields it. Who owns it. And the methods they use. And above all, it's about fighting back."

-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

"As Elizabeth put it, “I have neglected no duties, have injured no one, have always tried to do unto others as I would wish to be done by; and yet, here in America, I am imprisoned because I could not…"

-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

"It's a book that is set over 160 year ago. A lot has changed. A lot hasn't. We are only just beginning to appreciate exactly how a person's powerlessness may lead to struggles with their mental healt…"

-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

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11. Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

By: Olivia Campbell

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Campbell's Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine book and Olivia Campbell's Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • medical
  • historical
  • feminism
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • science
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12. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

By: Janice P. Nimura

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope… read more

Similar categories in Janice P. Nimura's The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine book and Olivia Campbell's Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • medical
  • feminism
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • science
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13. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

By: Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The host of MSNBC’s  The ReidOut  and  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Man Who Sold Amer… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

By: Maria Smilios

4.33

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remar… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"

-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

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15. The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

By: Loren Grush

4.36

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • science
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16. Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life

By: Suzanne Koven

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021 A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in … read more

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  • biography
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Who will I be when I have fewer patients? When I have no patients at all? It's often noted that "practice" as it relates to medicine has two meanings: the act of caring for patients and the doctor's …"

-Suzanne Koven, Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life

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17. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

By: Liza Mundy

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance by Mike Scardino

18. Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance

By: Mike Scardino

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An adrenaline-fueled read that will stay with you long after you turn the final page. BAD CALL is a… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Becoming Mrs. Smith (John Smith, #.5) by Tanya E.  Williams

19. Becoming Mrs. Smith (John Smith, #.5)

By: Tanya E. Williams

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

Not all of war’s destruction takes place on the battlefield. Violet’s heart flutters from the sc… read more

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  • historical
Cover of The Shooter at Midnight: Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided by Sean Patrick Cooper

20. The Shooter at Midnight: Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided

By: Sean Patrick Cooper

3.46

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The harrowing true story of a cold-blooded murder and one attorney’s quest to bring justice to a su… read more

Similar categories in Sean Patrick Cooper's The Shooter at Midnight: Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided book and Olivia Campbell's Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. The Great Book of Badass Women: 15 Fearless and Inspirational Women that Changed History

By: Rachel Walsh

3.88

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

There have been countless badass women who have changed the world for the better, yet most people h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

6 Top womens books like Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell

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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

Lena Andrews

4.00

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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

Kate Moore

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

Olivia Campbell

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Janice P. Nimura

3.59

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17 Best audiobook books like The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore

3.52

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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

4.37

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