Oh No He Didn’t! Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work by Wendy J. Murphy, JD. | #BookReview #NonFiction #WomensStudies #Biography @iReadBookTours @WMurphyLaw @CynrenPress
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Quick Summary
This isn’t just a history lesson—it’s a wake-up call. “Oh No He Didn’t” is a must-read for anyone who cares about giving credit where credit is due and ensuring women’s voices and achievements are no longer overlooked or downright stolen. This book is as informative as it is empowering.
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Book Details
Oh No He Didn't!: Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work by Wendy Murphy
Published by Cynren Press Pages: 222
Add to GoodreadsDon’t you hate it when someone takes credit for another person’s idea? It happens a lot, and the people who lose out are often women. This book tells the stories of women whose inventions, discoveries, and creations were credited to men—women like Zelda Fitzgerald, the novelist, painter, and playwright who was more than F. Scott’s wife, and Margaret Knight, who invented the flat-bottomed paper bag but saw the patent go to a man who stole off to the Patent Office with her idea. By telling the stories of the brilliant women artists, inventors, scientists, architects, and mathematicians who were denied their due, Oh No He Didn’t! will help all women tackle obstacles and create a kinship of understanding that will inspire and transcend generations.
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My thoughts on Oh No He Didn’t!
“Oh No He Didn’t: Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work” by Wendy Murphy, JD, is an eye-opening look into how women’s accomplishments have been erased or downplayed throughout history.
Murphy shines a bright, hot spotlight on the many brilliant women who’ve made huge contributions in fields like science, literature, politics, and beyond—only to have their work stolen or misattributed to men. It’s both maddening and fascinating as she relates story after story of these injustices.
Murphy blends her legal expertise with solid research techniques to break down why this keeps happening and what it says about our society. The examples she uses are incredibly relatable. You don’t have to be a scientist, author, or even a women, to understand the wrongs perpetuated against many talented, brilliant women.
The writing style is smart and approachable. It’s the kind of book that makes you shake your head in disbelief but also fires you up to advocate for change.
This isn’t just a history lesson—it’s a wake-up call. “Oh No He Didn’t” is a must-read for anyone who cares about giving credit where credit is due and ensuring women’s voices and achievements are no longer overlooked or downright stolen. This book is as informative as it is empowering.
I received a copy of the book for an iRead Virtual Book Tour. I’m not sure it would have crossed my path otherwise, which would have been a shame, as I found the book enlightening, heartbreaking, and hopeful for the future.
I recommend this book to everyone. Women need to know that they are not alone in this man’s world. It wouldn’t hurt for men to read it to see how prevalent this is and how to prevent themselves from falling into the trap of taking credit for women’s accomplishments. High school and college students should read it to understand how past generations of women were silenced. It’s time for change!
I received a copy of the book for the tour. This review is my honest, unbiased opinion.
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About Wendy Murphy
Wendy Murphy is an attorney specializing in women’s rights, civil rights, constitutional rights, and violence against women and children. Codirector of the Women’s and Children’s Advocacy Project under the Center for Law and Social Responsibility at New England Law | Boston and a former Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Wendy served as a columnist for the Boston Herald for many years and has appeared frequently on network and cable news shows as a pundit and legal analyst.
Her first book, And Justice for Some (2007), is an exposé of injustices endured by women and children victims of abuse. Wendy, a former child abuse and sex crimes prosecutor, lectures widely on women’s rights, Title IX, constitutional law, and criminal justice policy and is a national leader in the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment.
A mother of five, a grandmother of one, and a yoga student for life, Wendy lives outside Boston.
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Guest Post from the Author of Oh No He Didn’t!
I have yet to meet a person who says out loud, “I would take credit for someone else’s work if I knew I could get away with it,” and yet it happens all the time—especially to women.
Virtually every woman I know nods and smiles when I tell her the title of my book. We know that it happens a lot, not only in university settings but also in seemingly small spaces, like when a woman makes a suggestion at a school board meeting about a better way to run the cafeteria and nobody listens until a man repeats what she said.
Acting from the creative self is how we express our uniqueness as individuals. The creative process is part of what defines us and gives us purpose. We owe it to ourselves and to all women to be more hostile to the men who take credit for women’s work because it is never OK to encroach on a woman’s humanity.
I felt this sentiment deeply when writing this book because several of the women became irreparably damaged, psychologically, after men took credit for their work. Camille Claudel, for example, was an extraordinary sculptor whose work rivaled that of her teacher, Auguste Rodin, but when she separated from him in an effort to forge her own career, he had her institutionalized. She did not need inpatient mental health care, although she was suffering, emotionally, because of what Rodin did to destroy her career and take credit for her work. If only someone had asked why Camille was in such distress.
Something similar happened to Zelda Fitzgerald. She suffered terribly when her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, took credit for her work, but nobody seemed to care—so her psychic pain went unresolved, and she was committed to many different psychiatric hospitals during her lifetime.
Most of the women in my book suffered not only theft of their work but also the pain of knowing that nobody seemed to care that their work was stolen. I hope this book brings a bit of truth and accountability to their stories and inspires more people to stand up proudly against plagiaristic injustice.
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OH NO HE DIDN’T by Wendy J. Murphy Book Tour Giveaway
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Book Title: Oh No He Didn’t! Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work by Wendy J. Murphy, JD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction (18+), 240 pages
Genre: Biography/Women’s Studies; would also appeal perhaps to high school age
Publisher: Cynren Press
Release date: September 2024
Content Rating: PG + M. PG, there was one woman who experienced rape, and that is briefly described.
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I remember reading The Woman With the Cure and how men took credit for her work towards a polio vaccine. Maddening!
It is. There are so many instances from small jobs to big discoveries.