16 must-read nonfiction books like Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts by Paul B. Preciado

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Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts by Paul B. Preciado , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. King Kong théorie

By: Virginie Despentes

4.01

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more

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  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

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2. The Queer Art of Failure

By: J. Jack Halberstam

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more

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  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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3. The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

By: Monique Wittig

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writin… read more

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  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer

4. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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5. Manifesto Cyborg

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.26

Format: 32 pages,

Dopo aver tematizzato l'esistenza del cyborg, "creatura della realta sociale econtemporaneamente de… read more

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6. Bad Girls

By: Camila Sosa Villada

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more

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  • feminism
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

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7. La piedra de la locura

By: Benjamín Labatut

3.48

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

Una fascinante reflexión sobre el caos y la locura a partir de teorías científicas, expresiones lit… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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8. La seducción

By: Sara Torres

3.68

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

Tras el éxito de Lo que hay, vuelve con una novela sobre la distancia, el deseo y la fantasía la au… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"Esa es la propuesta del 'amor' humano hacia los animales: adáptate a mi ley o muere."

-Sara Torres, La seducción

"No elegimos las primeras imágenes que capturan nuestro deseo. Nos son impuestas: por azar, por poder o por norma."

-Sara Torres, La seducción

"Imagino ese concretísimo gesti para poder correrme. ¿Qué dice de mi? ¿Qué dicen de nosotras las imágenes que nos desatan?"

-Sara Torres, La seducción

"Las observaba y sus gestos, imaginados en mi propia carne, me dolían, pero a ellas no. Parecía natural su ser suaves, imberbes, con aroma a frambuesa y a plátano."

-Sara Torres, La seducción

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9. Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

By: Carla Lonzi

4.28

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

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  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"El divorcio es un injerto en el matrimonio con el cual se refuerza dicha institución."

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"La donna come soggetto non rifiuta l’uomo come soggetto, ma lo rifiuta come ruolo assoluto. Nella vita sociale lo rifiuta come ruolo autoritario."

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"It means the liberation of one half of humankind, which would make its voice heard, challenging, for the first time in history, not only bourgeois society but every society in which man is the protag…"

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

"For a girl, the university is not the place where she will achieve her liberation by means of culture, but the place where, after having been carefully prepared by the family, her repression will be …"

-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti

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10. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more

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  • psychoanalysis
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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11. Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase

By: Anna Pacheco

4.14

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Una brillante radiografía de las dinámicas laborales en el sector del turismo. El turismo ha cam… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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12. Silencio administrativo: La pobreza en el laberinto burocrático

By: Sara Mesa

4.31

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

La bestial y desgarradora historia de una mujer sin techo. Un texto lúcido, contundente y revelador… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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14. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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15. Ofendiditos: Sobre la criminalización de la protesta

By: Lucía Lijtmaer

3.75

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

En los últimos tiempos saltan a la prensa noticias como la censura del cartel de una exposición de … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Todos estos casos siguen una misma dinámica: el eslabón más alto de la jerarquía utiliza los medios a su alcance para realizar una crítica, la que sea, contra un movimiento o grupo social. Cuando est…"

-Lucía Lijtmaer, Ofendiditos: Sobre la criminalización de la protesta

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16. Monstruas y centauras: Nuevos lenguajes del feminismo

By: Marta Sanz

3.53

Format: 131 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tres acontecimientos más una sentencia (el #MeToo, la carta de las intelectuales francesas, la huel… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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17. El don de la siesta: Notas sobre el cuerpo, la casa y el tiempo

By: Miguel Ángel Hernández

3.76

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Asociada con la pereza y la ociosidad, la siesta contraviene uno de los principios fundamentales de… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. La fin des monstres

By: Tal Madesta

4.58

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

« Je ne suis déjà plus celle que j’étais, mais pas encore celui que je veux devenir. » En 2020, … read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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19. El tiempo de la promesa

By: Marina Garcés

4.15

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

Un libro incisivo y esperanzador sobre el poder de la palabra para reapropiarnos del presente y del… read more

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  • philosophy
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20. (h)amor 8 gordo

By: Irantzu Varela

4.20

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

¿Cómo se habita el mundo desde un cuerpo no-normativo? ¿Cómo (se) desea? ¿Cómo se establecen víncul… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 3)

By: J. Jack Halberstam

3.84

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However,… read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Cuando la lógica que fija la forma corporal a la práctica social desaparece, cuando las narrativas de sexo, género y corporalidad se relajan y se vuelven menos fijas en relación con la verdad, la aut…"

-J. Jack Halberstam, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 3)

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Virginie Despentes

4.01

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The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

Monique Wittig

4.12

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Benjamín Labatut

3.48

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Carla Lonzi

4.28

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Aurora Venturini

3.91

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Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

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Pedro Lemebel

4.00

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