Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It
By: Alyson J. McGregor
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A clarion call about the dangers of medicine for women, as well as a manual for how women can get t…
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1. Sour Heart
By: Jenny Zhang
3.69
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and s… read more
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"Another scar that faded enough to be just another mark we carried."-Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
"They were a sign of patronage, a sign of having so much money that it had to be squandered on objects with no purpose except to be beautiful or interesting."-Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
"[…] until we were living hour to hour, minute to minute, and even then, I still believed in my father, who insisted there had to be something—anything—to look forward to."-Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
"From that point on, I would refer to him as "your uncle" and he would mostly refer to me as "your aunt" and it would take a longtime for our children to even understand that we were siblings first."-Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart
2. How Doctors Think
By: Jerome Groopman
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. I… read more
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3. SCUM Manifesto
By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more
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4. The Female Eunuch
By: Jennifer Baumgardner , Germaine Greer
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
The clarion call to change that galvanized a generation. When Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuchwas… read more
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6. Pain and Prejudice: A Call to Arms for Women and Their Bodies
By: Gabrielle Jackson
4.16
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
A timely and powerful look at how our culture treats the pain and suffering of women. 'Women are… read more
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7. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
8. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
By: Caroline Criado Pérez
4.35
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and… read more
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"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
9. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
By: Elinor Cleghorn
4.11
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more
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"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
10. How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
By: Regan Penaluna
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential … read more
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11. Wild Power: Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power
By: Alexandra Pope
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Unprecedented insight into the feminine body and on using its natural rhythms to heal, find balance… read more
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12. What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
By: Cole Kazdin
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin … read more
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"I loved a good bulimia joke and even sometimes initiated them, like after a dinner out with friends, "I'd better run home and throw this up." We all laughed; my girlfriends said similar things. But I…"-Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
13. 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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"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
14. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
By: Henry Farrell
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart … read more
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15. Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
By: Maya Dusenbery
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the e… read more
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"As one patient with chronic fatigue syndrome put it, 'The difference between a crazed neurotic and a seriously ill person is simply a test."-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
"To be sure, depression, anxiety, and prolonged stress can cause specific physical symptoms, but these symptoms are not limitless, nor are they actually unexplained. When doctors invoke these labels f…"-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
"Indeed, these two contradictory extremes that medicine has tended to vacillate between: either women's reproductive functions are pathologized as innately abnormal - in which case any symptoms they b…"-Maya Dusenbery, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
16. All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
By: Darcy Lockman
4.16
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do men do so little at home? Why do women do so much? Why don't our egalitarian values match ou… read more
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"It is a truism that motherhood makes many women feminist."-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
"Men are not socialized to feel guilty for having freedom or for not being there for other people."-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
"I became my own worst enemy, conflicted about my right to ask, self-conscious about my rising anger, and too often stuck with the choice between fighting or just taking care of it, whatever it was, o…"-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
"Joan Williams at the Center for WorkLife Law said "My strongest advice to young women: Don't just try to find a man who's supportive of women. That's a threshold. But consider, what is his attitude t…"-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
17. The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians (Gift for History Buffs)
By: David M. Rubenstein
4.39
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a… read more
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18. White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
By: Koa Beck
4.25
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
JOURNALIST KOA BECK’S AMBITIOUS HARVARD RESEARCH-BASED DEEP DIVE INTI HOW FEMINISM HAS BEEN COMMODI… read more
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"In a time of alleged heightened "feminism" women of color and poor women are being left behind, and yet the trappings that uniquely target us, like poverty, incarceration, police brutality, and immig…"-Koa Beck, White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
"With many high-earning, public women espousing operating as individuals, "feminism" was reduced to a self-empowerment strategy. A way to get things. A way to get more of the things you thought you de…"-Koa Beck, White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
19. Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It
By: Alyson J. McGregor
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A clarion call about the dangers of medicine for women, as well as a manual for how women can get t… read more
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20. Twelve Bones
By: Rosie Talbot
4.40
Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition
Prepare for more spooky, swoony YA from BookTok star @Merrowchild! Charlie Frith and his new l… read more
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"They say York is the most haunted city in Europe. Don't I know it."-Rosie Talbot, Twelve Bones
21. COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One
By: Debora MacKenzie
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Over the last 30 years of epidemics and pandemics, we learned nearly every lesson needed to stop th… read more
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