How to Erase a Woman
On sale
4th March 2027
Price: £22
How to Erase a Woman is a razor-sharp takedown of the phenomenon known as the Matilda Effect – the systematic marginalisation of women’s contributions to history, named for the nineteenth-century polymath Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Haven’t heard of her? Well, that’s the point.
How about the geologist who mapped the entire ocean floor despite not being allowed on a boat? Or the woman who saved over a thousand Jews from the Nazis but never got her own movie? How about the self-taught engineer who built a world-famous bridge by pretending to be her husband, or the bestselling commercial artist whose husband signed his own name to her work?
Fortunately, the indomitable Ria Lina – standup comedian, former IT forensic investigator and doctor of virology – is here to right these wrongs. Taking the lives of more than a dozen overlooked figures as a starting point, How to Erase a Woman goes deeper to expose the underlying mechanisms of exclusion. Laced with biting humour and considerable outrage, it’s history at its most funny and furious.
Haven’t heard of her? Well, that’s the point.
How about the geologist who mapped the entire ocean floor despite not being allowed on a boat? Or the woman who saved over a thousand Jews from the Nazis but never got her own movie? How about the self-taught engineer who built a world-famous bridge by pretending to be her husband, or the bestselling commercial artist whose husband signed his own name to her work?
Fortunately, the indomitable Ria Lina – standup comedian, former IT forensic investigator and doctor of virology – is here to right these wrongs. Taking the lives of more than a dozen overlooked figures as a starting point, How to Erase a Woman goes deeper to expose the underlying mechanisms of exclusion. Laced with biting humour and considerable outrage, it’s history at its most funny and furious.