Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
By: Judith Butler
2.60
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1. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
By: Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Heller-Roazen
4.06
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy’s most important and original philosophers, has been base… read more
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"If the sovereign is truly the one to whom the juridical order grants the power of proclaiming a state of exception and, therefore, of suspending the order's own validity, then "the sovereign stands o…"-Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
2. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
By: Donna J. Haraway
4.15
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Al… read more
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"Grammar is politics by other means."-Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
"All readings are also mis-readings, re-readings, partial readings, imposed readings, and imagined readings of a text that is originally and finally never simply there. Just as the world is originally…"-Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
"Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony i…"-Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
"Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that …"-Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
3. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
By: Michel Foucault , Colin Gordon , Leo Marshall , None , Kate Soper
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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"It is surely the following kinds of question that would need to be posed: What types of knowledge do you want to disqualify in the very instant of your demand: 'Is it a science'? Which speaking, disc…"-Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
"I'm struck by the difficulty I had in formulating it. When I think back now, I ask myself what else it was that I was talking about in Madness and Civilization or The Birth of the Clinic, but power? …"-Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
4. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
5. The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, … read more
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"Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know."-Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
"The basic attitude that one must have toward political activity was related to the general principle that whatever one is, it is not owing to the rank one holds, to the responsibility one exercises,…"-Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
6. The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley , Zlatko Wurzberg
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original Fre… read more
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"But, then, what is philosophy today—philosophical activity, I mean—if it is not the critical work that thought brings to bear on itself? In what does it consist, if not in the endeavor to know how an…"-Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
7. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
By: Julia Serano
4.26
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more
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"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
8. Masculinities
By: Raewyn W. Connell
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connellrsquo; s ground-breaking text, which has become a cl… read more
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9. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
By: Judith Butler
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gend… read more
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10. The Sublime Object of Ideology
By: Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in… read more
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11. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
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12. The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
By: Michel Foucault , None
3.95
Format: 161 pages,
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Madness, sexuality, power, know… read more
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13. 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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14. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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15. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
By: Michel Foucault , Richard Howard , José Teixeira Coelho Netto
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Michel Foucault examines the ar… read more
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16. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
By: José Esteban Muñoz
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays… read more
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17. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
By: Michel Foucault
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . With vast erudition, Foucault c… read more
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18. Epistemology of the Closet
By: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
3.54
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
What is at stake in male homo/heterosexual definition? Through readings of Melville, Nietzsche, Wil… read more
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19. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
By: Jasbir K. Puar
4.00
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In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, na… read more
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20. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more
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21. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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22. Female Masculinity
By: J. Jack Halberstam
3.73
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Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of… read more
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23. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
By: Sara Ahmed
4.11
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In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to pro… read more
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24. Elements of the Philosophy of Right
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Allen W. Wood , Raymond Geuss
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of th… read more
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25. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
By: None , Lee Edelman
3.81
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In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory… read more
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26. Phenomenology of Perception
By: Maurice Merleau-Ponty , Colin Smith
3.62
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Together with Sartre, Merleau-Ponty was the foremost French philosopher of the post-war period and … read more
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27. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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28. 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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29. The Accursed Share 1: Consumption
By: Georges Bataille , Robert Hurley
3.93
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The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utilit… read more
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30. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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31. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
By: Paul B. Preciado , Bruce Benderson
3.98
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What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erec… read more
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