Here’s the Front & Female team’s selection of some of the most riveting and poignant reads written by women or for women in 2023
Like other years, the publishing industry has been busy in 2023 as well. From the biographies of some of the most impactful women of the 2000s, to essays exploring our relationship with controversial artists, as well as best-selling fictions on cultural appropriation and exploring the feminist movement in South Korea’s deeply patriarchal society, this year has seen a plethora of books about pioneering women or books that relate to the female experience.
Here’s a selection—in no particular order—that resonated with Front & Female, and that you should consider adding to your to-read list, if you haven’t already read them.
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‘The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science’ by Kate Zernike
The Exceptions tells the story of the sexism faced by 16 female scientists who worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) across various periods in the 20th century. Kate Zernike, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who broke the story, shows through the life of one of these women, Nancy Hopkins, how the 16 of them forced the esteemed institution to publicly admit that it had been discriminating against its female faculty for decades.