Published in 2023
6 hours and 7 minutes
Kaitlin Culmo is from Miami, Florida, and is currently based in Santa Barbara, California. Her writing and visual storytelling focuses on history and culture. She is a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
Emily McDermott lives in Berlin, Germany, and is an independent writer and editor with a focus on visual art and culture. Her writing has been published by numerous magazines, including Wallpaper*, Elle, i-D, W Magazine, Frieze, and ArtReview, among others, and translated into Japanese, Chinese, Czech and German. She has worked on editing projects for institutions and companies such as TASCHEN, Vitra, Art Basel, Design Hotels, David Chipperfield Architects, and the BMW Art Guide. She was a Fulbright fellow in 2016–17 and was previously the digital art, music, and nightlife editor at Interview magazine in New York City.
Kezia Gabriella is an art director and illustrator based in Singapore. She is known for her bold and vibrant practice that explores the theme of human connection through abstract shapes and irregular character design. She works with both digital and traditional mediums, and has collaborated with multiple global brands, including Apple, Nike, Rimowa, Refinery29, WeTransfer, and Medium. Her work has been recognized with awards from the World Illustration Awards, D&AD, the 4A’s, Marketing Interactive, and the Institute of Advertising, Singapore.
What is this book about?
You may think you know the stories behind the world’s most well-known, groundbreaking achievements, but To Her Credit is here to make you reevaluate our collective story. This book celebrates the stories of women, from ancient times until the 1990s, whose contributions have been overwritten and accredited to men.
The pattern of female achievements being stolen, overwritten, or straight-up ignored is as old as time. Authors Kaitlin Culmo and Emily McDermott reclaim the work of these heroines and offer reminders of what we lose when we don’t question history as it has been written.
- We’re often told that Cervantes “invented fiction” with the novel Don Quixote in seventeenth-century Europe, but what about Lady Murasaki’s The Tale of Genji in eleventh-century Japan?
- Elvis Presley is considered “The King” and the inventor of rock and roll music. But what about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who was the first to engineer the rock and roll sound, or Big Mama Thornton, for whom the song “Hound Dog” was explicitly written?
It’s time to talk about the thousands of years’ worth of art, inventions, innovations, and world-changing achievements made by women that have been ascribed to men.
