Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra’s debut book, Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work, will be published in May 2025 with Rising Action Publishing, a women-owned and operated publishing house based in Canada. Uncredited (previously announced as To Her Credit) is an exploration of the ways in which women go uncredited for their work and achievements, both historically and today. The book encompasses research studies, statistics and the stories of more than 600 women from throughout history and around the world, in fields ranging from the sciences to the arts to business to sports.
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About Uncredited
Women’s accomplishments across history are showcased as aberrations or surprising facts. Little thought is often given to the reasons why most of our lauded scientists, reporters, sports stars, politicians, and businesspeople all seem to be men.
Uncredited proves that not only have there been hundreds of ground-breaking women in all professions, but that their accomplishments have been overlooked, denigrated, or downright repressed by their male colleagues or historians. This book explores why women have not been properly acknowledged for their accomplishments, both historically and today.
Uncredited combines research and statistics with the stories of more than 600 women, and is both an academic source and a fascinating read. Prepare to be frustrated with the history you’ve been denied but also inspired by these hidden trailblazers.
What people are saying
Can a book be depressing and uplifting at the same time? As hunters and warriors, as writers, artists, rocket scientists, spies, pirates, sports heroes, explorers, physicians, inventors, monarchs–you name it–women have always been the equals of men, argues Allison Tyra. And they have almost always been overlooked.
In Uncredited, Tyra returns hundreds of such women to the records of history and proves how bias and misogyny have long striven to erase their accomplishments.
Eye-opening and provocative, Uncredited belongs in every library. Every girl should have the chance to read it, to see what her future could bring if she follows her heart, instead of doing what she’s told.
– Nancy Marie Brown, author of The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman, Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them and The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women
Allison Tyra’s Uncredited is a fascinating examination of how women have long been denied credit for their own work. This book is stunning in its scope, with stories from ancient Greece to the present, and tales of women’s struggles all over the world to get what they deserve. By looking at everything from whose records are seen as worth preserving to double standards to assumptions that wives are just extensions of husbands, Tyra reveals all the ways women have been made invisible, whether by being seen as not believable, unintelligent, untalented, or just too weak to hack it. But you’ll also get a chance to hear the incredible stories of female pirates, empresses, athletes, warriors, scientists, revolutionaries, and entertainers while you’re at it. This book will inspire you – and make you mad enough – to make sure that the women of the past, present, and future get the recognition they deserve for their achievements!
– Dr. Sarah Horowitz, history professor and author of The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All
For centuries, women’s contributions to every field of human discovery have been downplayed, underappreciated, erased, or outright stolen. Allison Tyra’s encyclopedic compendium of groundbreaking accomplishments by women who have been unfairly omitted from our shared history fundamentally shifts the balance when it comes to accurately attributing credit where credit is due. Thoroughly researched and written in accessible, engaging prose, Uncredited is an invaluable resource for historians, educators, and anyone seeking a more accurate understanding of the past.
– Lorissa Rinehart, author of First to the Front, The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent and Winning the Earthquake, the biography of Jeannette Rankin, America’s First Congresswoman
Uncredited by Allison Tyra is an amazing compendium of stories about hundreds of women – left out, ignored, misnamed, erased, mansplained, reframed and uncredited (to name just a few). As a historian of women for over a half century, I was blown away and somewhat ashamed that I had never heard of or read about at least 2/3 of these remarkable actors. Tyra, the creator and manager of Infinite Women, an ever-expanding encyclopedia of women, has given us an extraordinarily documented, theorized, and passionate account of the hows, whens and whys women have been hidden from history…film, medicine, science…you name it. A must!
– Barbara Winslow, professor emerita, Women and Gender Studies Brooklyn College US
Uncredited sets the record straight by celebrating the all-too-little known and unheralded accomplishments of women, and makes painfully clear the cost we all pay for having learned a woefully lopsided version of history.
– Dana Rubin, founder of the Speaking While Female database and author of Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women
Giving credit where it is long overdue, Allison Tyra puts stories of hundreds of women in their proper place, while pointing out the structural blocks that have kept their accomplishments — around the the world and through the centuries — from being rightly celebrated.
– Carrie Gibson, author of El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
Uncredited illustrates the breadth and depth of women’s accomplishments throughout history, but then clearly answers the question ‘Why haven’t I heard of these women before?’ It is essential reference material for anyone who might have doubted women’s accomplishments or assumed that these were only unacknowledged a few times.
– Kimberly Hess, author of A Lesser Mortal: The Unexpected Life of Sarah B. Cochran
Allison has also signed with Rising Action to publish several more books, so stay tuned for updates!