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Sam Magg's Wonder Women: 25 Innovars Who Changed History

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I'm a total history buff and I love learning about kick butt women whose accomplishments have been mostly lost to history, thus this book was the ideal read for me. Furthermore, it made for a perfect companion to Jessica Bennett's The Feminist Fight Club which was the other book I was reading at the same time.

Sam Magg's Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History features an array of pioneering female scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers, and inventors many of whom I was unaware of like Dr. Okami Keiko (the first Japanese woman to obtain a degree in Western medicine from a Western university) and Dr. Anandibai Joshi (the first woman physician) who were actually well acquainted with each other.

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