Icon’s best female authors

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Today is International Women’s Day and Jane Goddall, whose book Hope for Animals and Their World is published by Icon, is one of the Guardian’s Top 100 Women in the Science and Medicine category.  To celebrate, here are some of our best female authors in areas from mathematics to social history.

Keeping with the science theme, Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender takes a long, hard look at the bad science and neurosexism that suggests women can’t do science and mathematics.

Delusions of Gender, is for ‘anyone who would like to know what today’s best science reveals about gender differences – and similarities’ (Times  Literary  Supplement) and ‘could change the way we view gender forever’ (Viv Groskop, The Guardian).

Check out Kitty Ferguson’s Pythagoras, or Masha Gessen’s Perfect Rigour, biographies of famous mathematicians centuries apart.

Then there’s Jean Baggott’s The Girl on the Wall, her autobiography with accompanying tapestry.

And Proust and the Squid, Maryanne Wolf’s brilliant investigation of how our brains adapted to the process of reading.

In September 2011, we’ll be publishing Nessa Carey’s The Epigenetics Revolution, from the frontline of changes in how we view DNA (it’s more like a script than something set in stone).

If that wasn’t enough, there are still more fantastic female Icon authors, from Patricia Fara’s Fatal Attraction, the story of magnetism in the enlightenment, to Jessica Williams’ 50 Facts that Should Change the World.

And if you want to see how far we’ve come, you could even pick up The Unfair Sex, a guide to how to get your man originally published in the 1950s.