A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective
By: Françoise Vergès
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN…
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1. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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2. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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3. La chair est triste hélas
By: Ovidie
4.17
Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition
" J'ai repensé à ces innombrables rapports auxquels je m'étais forcée par politesse, pour ne pas fr… read more
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4. Les grandes oubliées : Pourquoi l’histoire a effacé les femmes
By: Titiou Lecoq
4.67
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
De tout temps, les femmes ont agi. Elles ont régné, écrit, milité, créé, combattu, crié parfois. Et… read more
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5. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
By: Katherine Angel
4.08
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of Me… read more
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"The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare."-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation."-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Why not aim for sex itself as being deeply mutually pleasurable? Why not aim for a culture that embraces and enables women’s sexual pleasure, in all its complexity, and admits the complexity of male …"-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
"Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norm…"-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
6. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
By: Kate Manne
4.25
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more
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7. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
By: Sophie Lewis
3.70
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more
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- theory
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8. Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
By: Silvia Federici
4.14
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, incl… read more
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"In capitalism, sex can exist but only as a productive force at the service of procreation and the regeneration of the waged/male working and as a mean of social appeasement and compensation for the m…"-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
"[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their…"-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
"[W]omen were those most likely to be victimized because they were the most 'disempowered' by these changes, especially older women, who often rebelled against their impoverishment and social exclusio…"-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
9. Abolition. Feminism. Now.
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.31
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more
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10. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
By: Micha Frazer-Carroll
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed ‘E… read more
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11. Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence
By: Elsa Dorlin
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
"En 1685, le Code noir défendait « aux esclaves de porter aucunes armes offensives ni de gros bâton… read more
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- nonfiction
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"La non-violence doit être comprise et circonscrite à un principe éthico-politique interne aux groupes mobilisés ; elle est donc une modalité de subjectivation politique qui n’a de sens que pour prend…"-Elsa Dorlin, Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence
"Passer à la violence' -celle de l'action directe et de la revendication sans compromission- est ainsi lié au constat que la revendication d'une égalité civile et civique ne peut être adressée pacifiq…"-Elsa Dorlin, Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence
"Passer à la violence' - celle de l'action directe et de la revendication sans compromission - est ainsi inextricablement lié au constat que la revendication d'une égalité civile et civique ne peut êt…"-Elsa Dorlin, Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence
"Cette [menace terroriste] ultime, qui traduit un attisement généralisé de la peur érigée en virtù, est désormais sous contrôle via la production de politiques qui insécurisent en permanence la sociét…"-Elsa Dorlin, Se défendre, une philosophie de la violence
12. A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective
By: Françoise Vergès
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN… read more
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- politics
- france
- nonfiction
- essays
- social justice
- sociology
13. Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism
By: Amelia Horgan
3.91
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie—at least for most of us. For … read more
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"During the early stages of the Covid-19 lockdown, prominent newspaper columnists defended their right to have someone clean their homes, even at significant risk to their health, on dubiously feminis…"-Amelia Horgan, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism
14. Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K. Rosa
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more
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15. Faire justice : Moralisme progressiste et pratiques punitives dans la lutte contre les violences sexistes
By: ELSA Service diocésain de catéchèse de Versailles
4.32
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Que faire, concrètement, face à l’ampleur des violences sexistes, sexuelles et autres, qui sévissen… read more
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16. 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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17. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
By: Sara Ahmed
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people… read more
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"Iris Marion Young discusses how some girls learn to “throw like girls"-Sara Ahmed, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
18. Le Capitalisme patriarcal
By: Silvia Federici
4.03
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Comment faire tourner les usines sans les travailleurs vigoureux, nourris, blanchis, qui occupent l… read more
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19. Rester barbare
By: Louisa Yousfi
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"Je sens que j’ai tellement de choses à dire qu’il vaut mieux que je ne sois pas trop cultivé. Il f… read more
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20. Futures - Comment le féminisme peut sauver le monde
By: Lauren Bastide
4.45
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
L'identité, la sexualité, l'amour et la parentalité se vivraient sans contrainte ni injonction. La … read more
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21. Pour une écologie pirate
By: Fatima Ouassak
4.41
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Nous manquons, aujourd'hui en Europe, d'un projet écologiste capable de résister aux politiques d'é… read more
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