Angela Saini
Angela Saini is an award-winning British science journalist and broadcaster. She is the author of Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World and Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story. Her third book, Superior: The Fatal Return of Race Science, will be published in 2019.
Books by Angela Saini
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
by Angela Saini
“The Patriarchs is fantastic. Angela Saini is a science journalist and it’s a very detailed study and look at feminism over time with an interesting bent. Different women through the ages haven’t understood in the way that power has arisen and the way that we moved from a matriarchal society, thousands of years ago, to a patriarchal one. Again, it’s the long sweep of history, but with a very political endpoint. Why have we ended up here? Why do we live in a patriarchy now when we haven’t at moments in history? What’s happened? I’ve read so many books on this subject, but I love this because of its fabulous combination of real detail about some really interesting cultures centered on women, but again, with a very strong political message.”
Superior: The Return of Race Science
by Angela Saini
As a follow-up to Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, the award-winning science writer Angela Saini now explores the concept of race: the notion that groups of people have innate, genetically-based qualities that are not only visible in terms of appearance, but also in behaviour, character and intellectual capabilities. The rigorously argued Superior is an examination of the insidious history and damaging consequences of race science—used historically to apply a veneer of respectability to racist policies—and a warning of its resurgence across the globe.
Angela Saini previously spoke to Five Books about the best books on the scientific differences between men and women.
Interviews with Angela Saini
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A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
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Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America
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Wally Funk's Race for Space: The Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer
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The Woman That Never Evolved
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The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
by Desmond Morris
The best books on Scientific Differences between Women and Men, recommended by Angela Saini
The best books on Scientific Differences between Women and Men, recommended by Angela Saini
Consideration of differences between men and women has been obscured by centuries of biological essentialism, argues Angela Saini – author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong. Here she discusses five books that examine or demonstrate the misogynistic lens through which female capability has been viewed.
Interviews where books by Angela Saini were recommended
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The Fire of the Dragon: China’s New Cold War
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Invasion: Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival
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Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It
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The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy
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The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
by Angela Saini
The 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, recommended by Martha Lane Fox
The 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, recommended by Martha Lane Fox
The Orwell Prizes are the UK’s most prestigious prizes for writing about politics, awarded annually to books and articles that best meet George Orwell’s own ambition “to make political writing into an art.” Martha Lane Fox, chair of this year’s judging panel, talks us through the shortlist of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, awarded annually to a nonfiction book.
