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Thats a very fair question. If you'll indulge me my I'll start with one addition to each heading in the original list.
7 books by female writers...
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7 books by female writers...
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Tactics (& accounts of war)
Svetlana Alexievich. The Unwomanly Face of War.
Operational Art
Anna Reid. Leningrad.
Strategy
Pauline Kusiak. Culture, Identity, and Information Technology in the 21st Century.
Svetlana Alexievich. The Unwomanly Face of War.Operational Art
Anna Reid. Leningrad.Strategy
Pauline Kusiak. Culture, Identity, and Information Technology in the 21st Century.
Decision Making
Ann Dunwoody. A Higher Standard: Leadership Strategies From America’s First Female Four-Star General.
Understanding the World
Anne-Marie Slaughter. The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World.
Ann Dunwoody. A Higher Standard: Leadership Strategies From America’s First Female Four-Star General.Understanding the World
Anne-Marie Slaughter. The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World.
Theory
Aimee Fox. Learning to Fight.
Future War
Sarah Kreps & John Kaag. Drone Warfare.
Aimee Fox. Learning to Fight.Future War
Sarah Kreps & John Kaag. Drone Warfare.
I would then commend a further 11 books for a wider audience, under these additional topics:
War & Conflict Studies
Barbara Tuchman. The Guns of August.
Annette Levy-Willard. Summer rain.
Cathy Sultan. Tragedy in South Lebanon: The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006.
War & Conflict Studies
Barbara Tuchman. The Guns of August.Annette Levy-Willard. Summer rain.Cathy Sultan. Tragedy in South Lebanon: The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006.
Justice, Effects of War, Migration and Genocide:
Lidia Tilotta and Pietro Bartolo. Lampedusa: Gateway to Europe.
Molly Crabapple & Marwan Hisham. Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian Civil War.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. A Human Being Died That Night.
Lidia Tilotta and Pietro Bartolo. Lampedusa: Gateway to Europe.Molly Crabapple & Marwan Hisham. Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian Civil War.Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. A Human Being Died That Night.
Women in the Military
Shoshana Johnson. I’m Still Standing.
Kristin Beck. Warrior Princess.
Shoshana Johnson. I’m Still Standing.Kristin Beck. Warrior Princess.
Eye openers
Soraya Chemaly. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger.
Sohaila Abduali. What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape.
Ijeoma Owo. So You Want To Talk About Race.
Soraya Chemaly. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger.Sohaila Abduali. What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape.Ijeoma Owo. So You Want To Talk About Race.
These are just my immediate recommendations.
Scanning my own shelves for others, and going through my 'to-read' list of books that have been recommended to me by far cleverer and more interesting people than me I find:
Scanning my own shelves for others, and going through my 'to-read' list of books that have been recommended to me by far cleverer and more interesting people than me I find:
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. Ashley’s War.Jane Blair. Hesitation Kills.Kirsten Holmstedt. Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq.Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Chad Emmett, Mary Caprioli and Valeire Hudson. Sex and World Peace.
Sandy Asch. Roar: How to Build a Resilient Organization.Kate Purmal. The Moonshot Effect: Disrupting Business as Usual.Susan Cain. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.
Sheryl Sandberg. Option B Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy.Carol Dweck. Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfill Your Potential.Amy Edmondson. The Fearless Organization.
Debra Meyerson. Rocking The Boat: How Tempered Radicals Effect Change Without Making Trouble.Nancy Kline. More Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind.Barbara Kellerman. Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters.
UN. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.Anne Applebaum. Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe.Lois Price. Revolutionary Road: On the Road in Search of The Real Iran.
Catherine Gegout. Why Europe Intervenes in Africa: Security, Prestige and the Legacy of Colonialism.Maria Stephen. Civilian Jihad.Mary Kaldor & Shannon D. Beebe. The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon.
Naomi Klein. The Shock Doctrine.Ellen Mickiewicz. No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders.-Barbara Tuchman. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914.Penelope Farmer. Charlotte Sometimes.Anonymous. A woman in Berlin.
Sally Cummings. Understanding Central Asia.Gretchen Peters. Seeds of Terror.Jennifer M Hazen. What Rebels Want: Resources and SupplyNetworks in Wartime.Sarah Chayes. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban.
Elizabeth Jane Howard. Marking TimeAnne Applebaum. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine.Anne Applebaum. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56.Benazir Bhutto. Reconciliation.Ayesha Siddiqa. Military Inc.
Mary Fulbrook. Anatomy of Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949-1989.Barbara Demick. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. A Human Being Died That Night.Inga Markovitz. Imperfect Justice: An East-West Diary.
Samantha Power. A Problem From Hell.Seya Benhabib. The Rights of Others.Susan J Brison. Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self.Carolyn Forche. Against Forgetting.Heidi Squier Kraft. Rule Number Two.
Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After.-Estelle Freedman. To Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women-Kat Banyard. Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality.
Helena Morrissey. A Good Time to be a Girl.Rene Eddo-Lodge. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race.
Finally, I would point people towards the online writings, tweets and essays by numerous professional women across the academic fields. Look through who I follow, I don't agree with some, but I value the perspective and lenses they use to inform.
Feel free to add more!
Feel free to add more!
