Indeed - and I invoked Klein, Faludi, Greer, Russ, Millett, Carter, Woolf, Wollstonecraft, Rowbottom, Paglia, Rubin, Dworkin, Gilbert and Gubar, Showalter, Jardine. One commenter on the earlier Grauniad piece said:

economic trends":

Naomi Klein:
The Shock Doctrine

Barbara Kingsolver
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Naomi Wolf
Give Me Liberty

Note that all three of these rank higher on the list than Gladwell's banal "Tipping Point", Yet, bizarrely, none of them are mentioned in this posting. It took me 2 75 seconds to click on the NYT and glean them from the bestseller list.

I could go further, and give a much longer list of former bestsellers by women in the same category. And noteworthy non-bestsellers by women in the same category.

But then, I'd be doing Ms. Flood's research for her. The research she should have done before posting this kind of lightweight drivel.

Suggested topic for Ms. Flood's next posting: "Articles asking "Where Are The Big Books / Scientific Discoveries / Major Works of Art or Scholarship By Women" Always Seem To Be Written By People Who Missed Out On The Past 2,000 Years Of Human History As Well As Today's Newspapers - Why?"

The author of the piece, Flood, comments:

The reason I thought it might be a bit of a push to include someone like Naomi Klein in this bracket is precisely because I felt she was too heavyweight, gets into her topics in much greater depth, etc.

Men think they've done a big ideas book, but in fact it's just a good size?