TLDR: What book would you recommend to someone interested in the archeological record of the Viking era? I'm particularly interested in women's experiences.
In the last couple of years, I've seen some really interesting Viking era artifacts. Particularly, Sutton Hoo in the British Museum and a small but spectacularly curated traveling exhibition from Uppsala University in Sweden.
Since those whet my interest, I've been reading. Vikings - a History by Neil Oliver was a nice light general intro. I enjoyed one very unusual book called The Far Traveler - Voyages of a Viking Woman, which is supposed to be a biography of a historical woman, but spends equal time as a travelogue about the authors experiences on an archeological dig in Iceland.
I don't mind subjectivity and speculation, but I'd like to avoid stereotypes like horned helmets and Bernard Cornwell characters. I am particularly interested in anything focused on women's experiences.
I felt relieved when I opened the question thread since good books about Nordic Iron Age (especially prior to the Viking Age) in English are often very expensive and out of print.
So, I understand (re-interpret) OP's question as a request to the booklist on the Vikings (not the Vendel Period), mainly including the gender and archaeological aspects and not necessarily written in strictly academic style.
/u/sagathain and I for a while ago discussed the history books on the Viking women in What are your thoughts on Noah Brown's "Ragnar Lothbrok and a History of the Vikings" and Judith Jesch's "Women in the Viking Age"?
You can check the names of the author of the new book as well as some classics on the women in Viking Age Scandinavia, such as Judith Jesch who wrote the Women in the Viking Age, Jenny Jochens, and Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir. Jesch also wrote an overview work on the Vikings, focusing on their society (including the gender), called The Viking Diaspora (2015).
On the other hand, both of the latest overview books on the Vikings that I also mentioned in the linked thread above are written by the archaeologists.
Price's is lengthy and Nordeide & Edwards are very short one, so choose either of them in accordance with your taste.
On the other hand, if you like the travelogue-style on the Vikings like the Far Traveler, Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund. Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas. Oxford: OUP, 2016 (pbk 2019) might satisfy your curiosity, though the book itself tell us little about the women in the Viking Age.