What are the best history books written by women?

Apologies for the dearth of posts. I've become rather busy with other projects and I've finally caught up on all the PMs and personal messages from the previous thread. I just can't seem to stop getting requests irl for recommendations of history books written by women. I kind of made a big deal about pushing women into STEM careers and seem to be the go to person in my network for history book recommendations. However, I don't actually use many books written by women because there are so few of them. I'm happy to recommend Michelle Mckinley, Mridu Rai, Alison Bashford, and Natalie L. Kimball, but beyond that I'm at a loss for recommendations. If you have any recommendations, I'll put them in the sticky and take them down in my notes (yes, I keep notes).<br><br>Edit: I'm just going to go ahead and put all suggestions here for now<br><br>Books written by women authors are in italics<br><br>• Natalie Z. Davis, *Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives* <br>• Carolyn Abbate, *In Search of Opera* <br>• Peggy Orenstein, *Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity* <br>• Christobel Kent, *A Party in the Garden: The Reforming of Middle-Class Leisure on the Magic Mountain* <br>• Mary Beard, *SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome* <br>• Mary Beard, *Women & Power: A Manifesto* <br>• Mary Beard, *Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Age of Trajan* <br>• Mary Beard, *Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations* <br>• Mary Beard, *Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up* <br>• Doris Kearns Goodwin, *Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln* <br>• Will Durant, Phillip R. Cato, and Ariel Durant, *The Lessons of History* <br>• Erica Fudge, *Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture* <br>• Ruth Harris, *Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age* <br>• Mary Wollstonecraft, *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman* <br>• Ruth Harris, *Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century* <br>• Ruth Harris, *The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France* <br>• Leila J. Rupp, *A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America* <br>• Linda McClain, *Who's the Bigot?: Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights* <br>• G. S. Rousseau, Roy Porter, Suzy Beemer, and Leigh E. Cahill Smith, *Exoticism in the Enlightenment* <br>• Elizabeth L. Eisenstein and Adrian Johns, *Reconsidering the Gutenberg Jeremiad* <br>• Diane F. Britton and Carolyn E. Tate, *The Lifespan of a Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American Economy* <br>• Nancy Woloch, *Women and the American Experience, Brief* <br>• Nancy Woloch, *Early American Women: A Documentary History, 1600-1900* <br>• Elizabeth L. Eisenstein and Adrian Johns, *Reconsidering the Gutenberg Jeremiad* <br>• Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, *The Printing Press as an Agent of Change* <br>• Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, *Grub Street Abroad: Aspects of the French Cosmopolitan Press from the Age of Louis XIV to the Age of Revolution* <br>• Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, *Confessions of a History Junkie* <br>• Sally G. McMillen, *Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement* <br>• Sally G. McMillen, *Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life* <br>• Carol Berkin, *Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for American Independence* <br>• Carol Berkin, *Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant* <br>• Carol Berkin, *Narrating the American Story* <br>• Carol Berkin, *Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science* <br>• Carol Berkin, *A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution* <br>• Carol Berkin, *First Generations: Women in Colonial America* <br>• Carol Berkin, *Revolution by Design: Women and the Creation of American Society* <br>• Carol Berkin, Women's Voices, Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History <br>• Nell Irwin Painter, *The History of White People* <br>• Nell Irwin Painter, *Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919* <br>• Nell Irwin Painter, *Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present* <br>• Nell Irwin Painter, *Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol* <br>• Nell Irwin Painter, *Southern History Across the Color Line* <br>• Nell Irwin Painter, *The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South* <br>• Carolyn E. Tate, *Yaxchilan: The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City* <br>• Carolyn E. Tate, *Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture: The Unborn, Women, and Creation* <br>• Carolyn E. Tate, *Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerican* <br>• Carolyn E. Tate, *Oaxaca: The Archaeological Record: Mesoamerican Worlds* <br>• Carolyn E. Tate, *Practicing the Political: Essays on Naoki Sakai* <br>• Carolyn E. Tate, *Reinventing Subjectivities* <br>• Carolyn E. Tate, *Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Transnational World* <br>• Carolyn E. Tate, *Seclusion, Exclusion, and Inclusion: Religion in the Lives of Women with Disabilities* <br>• Carolyn E. Tate, *Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism* <br>• Carolyn E. Tate, *Women and the History of International Thought* <br>• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, *An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States* <br>• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, *Shield of the Republic: The United States of America* <br>• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, *Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion* <br>• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, *All the Real Indians Died Off: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans* <br>• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, *An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young Readers* <br>• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, *The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgment on America: An Oral History of the Sioux Nation and Its Struggle for Sovereignty* <br>• Helene Cixous and Sue Sellers, *The Hélène Cixous Reader* <br>• Helene Cixous and Mireille Calle-Gruber, *Helene Cixous, Rootprints (Continental European Philosophy)* <br>• Helene Cixous, *White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics* <br>• Helene Cixous, *Stigmata: Escaping Texts* <br>• Helene Cixous, *The Writing Notebooks of Helene Cixous* <br>• Helene Cixous and Beverly Bie Brahic, *Selected Plays of Helene Cixous* <br>• Helene Cixous, *The Laugh of the Medusa* <br>• Helene Cixous, *Coming to Writing and Other Essays* <br>• Helene Cixous and Peggy Kamuf, *Hyperdream* <br>• Helene Cixous, *Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva* <br>• Helene Cixous, *The Exile of James Joyce* <br>• Helene Cixous, *Philippines* <br>• Helene Cixous, *Inside: A Public and Private History of My Eyelids* <br>• Helene Cixous, *Veils* <br>• Helene Cixous, *Neuter: On Neuter* <br>• Helene Cixous, *To Live the Orange: Letters to my Brother of the Shadow, 2008-2018* <br>• Helene Cixous, *Defiance: A Novel* <br>• Helene Cixous, *Manhattan: Letters from Prehistory* <br>• Helene Cixous and Ronald S. Berman, *Paradigm I: The Letters of Adam, a Novel* <br>• Helene Cix