16 must-read feminism books like Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jenni Nuttall

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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

By: Jenni Nuttall

3.82

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language--and what we can l…

If you liked the feminism plot in Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jenni Nuttall , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen

1. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

By: Elise Loehnen

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more

Similar categories in Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."

-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

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2. Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

By: Jenni Nuttall

3.82

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language--and what we can l… read more

Similar categories in Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • linguistics
  • history
  • language
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon

3. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

Similar categories in Cat Bohannon's Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

4. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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5. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench

4.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more

Similar categories in Judi Dench's Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

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6. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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7. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Haynes's Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

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8. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Sarah Ogilvie

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ogilvie's The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • linguistics
  • history
  • language
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • audiobook
"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"

-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

Cover of A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon

9. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

By: Emma Southon

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more

Similar categories in Emma Southon's A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman

10. Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History

By: Tracy Borman

4.26

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives,… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Borman's Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power

By: Leah Redmond Chang

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and M… read more

Similar categories in Leah Redmond Chang's Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya

12. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

By: Anna Bogutskaya

3.72

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more

Similar categories in Anna Bogutskaya's Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

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13. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

By: Caroline Dodds Pennock

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Dodds Pennock's On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson

14. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

By: Marion Gibson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more

Similar categories in Marion Gibson's Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

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15. Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

By: Ramie Targoff

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shak… read more

Similar categories in Ramie Targoff's Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No by Carl Elliott

16. The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No

By: Carl Elliott

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, somet… read more

Similar categories in Carl Elliott's The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
Cover of Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close by Hannah  Carlson

17. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

By: Hannah Carlson

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising a… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Carlson's Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

18. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

By: Eleanor Janega

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Janega's The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer   Wright

19. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

By: Jennifer Wright

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a cele… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Wright's Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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20. The Deadline

By: Jill Lepore

4.30

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

TIME • 10 Best Books of August 2023 A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is th… read more

Similar categories in Jill Lepore's The Deadline book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity by Jill Burke

21. How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

By: Jill Burke

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics *A Waterstones Best Book o… read more

Similar categories in Jill Burke's How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
Cover of The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera

22. The Volcano Daughters

By: Gina María Balibrera

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador’s brutal di… read more

Similar categories in Gina María Balibrera's The Volcano Daughters book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • historical
  • adult
Cover of The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle by Anna Shechtman

23. The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

By: Anna Shechtman

3.38

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen… read more

Similar categories in Anna Shechtman's The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • language
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Weird Medieval Guys: A Bestiary of Curious Creatures from the Dark Ages by Olivia Swarthout

24. Weird Medieval Guys: A Bestiary of Curious Creatures from the Dark Ages

By: Olivia Swarthout

3.85

Format: 203 pages, ebook

Live, laugh love and die in the Middle Ages with Weird Medieval Guys!Explore what your medieval lif… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love by Marcia A. Zug

25. You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love

By: Marcia A. Zug

3.75

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

An illuminating and thought-provoking examination of the uniquely American institution of marriage,… read more

Similar categories in Marcia A. Zug's You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The social and cultural preference for marriage has obvious negative effects for single people, but it also harms the married. A desire to retain marriage's preferential status is on of the most cite…"

-Marcia A. Zug, You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love

"As marriage became "proof" of black respectability, this induced many freedmen and women to marry, but it also encouraged the black community to exert pressure on those who resisted..."The colored pe…"

-Marcia A. Zug, You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love

"Black men had fewer opportunities to become wealthy and were specifically encourages, often by the US government, to look to marriage, rather than wealth, as a source of social status. The government…"

-Marcia A. Zug, You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love

Cover of A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England by Vanessa Wilkie

26. A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England

By: Vanessa Wilkie

4.11

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

This “engrossing, fast-paced, extremely well-researched biography” (Booklist) transports us to Tudo… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Wilkie's A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Period: The Real Story of Menstruation by Kate Clancy

27. Period: The Real Story of Menstruation

By: Kate Clancy

3.97

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation Men… read more

Similar categories in Kate Clancy's Period: The Real Story of Menstruation book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
Cover of Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity by Sable Yong

28. Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity

By: Sable Yong

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Journalist and former Allure editor Sable Yong debuts with a sharp-toothed and hilarious essay coll… read more

Similar categories in Sable Yong's Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity book and Jenni Nuttall's Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction

11 must-read womens books like Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jenni Nuttall

Transform Your Habits

On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Elise Loehnen

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Jenni Nuttall

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

4.32

Transform Your Habits

A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

Emma Southon

4.23

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11 Top adult books like Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Natalie Haynes

4.05

Transform Your Habits

A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

Emma Southon

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

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