RANDOM RECOMMENDATIONS

These aren’t random, of course. They’re also not complete.

READING

BOOKS

Recommendations for books I read since starting my academic career, in the order in which I (first) read them. Most are non-fiction. I only include fiction if the book made me see the world quite differently.

• The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, Angela Saini, 2023.
• Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement, Ashley Shew, 2023.
• Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Kate Manne, 2020.
• Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, Roxane Gay (Editor), 2018.
• Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, Soraya Chemaly, 2018.
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, 2010.
• Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Kate Manne, 2017.
• Circe, Madeleine Miller, 2018.
• Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini, 2019.
• Pain and Prejudice: A Call to Arms for Women and Their Bodies, Gabrielle Jackson, 2019.
• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger, Rebecca Traister, 2018.
• Bad Feminist: Essays, Roxane Gay, 2014.
• We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2012.
• The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies, Deborah Frances-White, 2018.
• Lab Girl, Hope Jahren, 2016.
• Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet, Claire L. Evans, 2018.
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge, 2017.
• Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society, Cordelia Fine, 2017.
• Stop Fixing Women: Why building fairer workplaces is everybody’s business, Catherine Fox, 2017.
• Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story, Angela Saini, 2017.
• Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag, 2003.

ESSAYS AND BLOG POSTS

• I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking., Will Teague in The Huffington Post, 20 November 2025.

LISTENING

• Allusionist 220. Disobedience, The Allusionist by Helen Zaltzman, 9 November 2025. Guest: So Mayer.
• 71. Weinstein Culture, The Guilty Feminist by Deborah Frances-White, 21 October 2017. Co-host: Cal Wilson. Guest: Kristine Ziwica.

WATCHING

• “The Good Men” & Misogyny, Hannah Gadsby at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women In Entertainment, December 2018.
• Opposition to “Celebrity Icons have Corrupted Feminist Movements”, Deborah Frances-White at Oxford Union debate on Celebrity Icons & Feminism, 18 January 2018.
• Charisma versus Stage Fright, Deborah Frances-White’s masterclass on public speaking at TEDxCambridgeUniversity, October 2015.