7 Best sociology books like Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus by Jennifer S. Hirsch

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Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus

By: Jennifer S. Hirsch

4.50

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. Resear…

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1. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

By: Judith Lewis Herman

4.39

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In th… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

"Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

"The desire for total control over another person is the common denominator of all forms of tyranny."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

"People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner."

-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

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2. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right

By: Angela Nagle

4.08

Format: 88 pages, ebook

Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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3. Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation

By: Eboo Patel

4.23

Format: 128 pages,

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  • nonfiction

4. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

By: Peggy Orenstein

3.80

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

With casual hookups and campus rape relentlessly in the news, parents can be forgiven for feeling a… read more

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5. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

By: Emily Nagoski

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

6. Transgender History

By: Susan Stryker

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more

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7. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

By: Dorothy Roberts

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activ… read more

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8. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.25

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourse… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
"In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Women and femmes who love money are free to be demanding. The world has tried to fool them into thinking that getting paid for care or sex “cheapens"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Money buys protection. It buys time off and privacy. And it buys nice, pretty shit. Money also buys food, housing, and health care. Getting paid enough to meet our needs—and more—feels good. I’m not …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

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9. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • education
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10. The Lord Is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love

By: K.J. Ramsey

4.58

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Walking through Psalm 23 phrase by phrase, therapist and author K.J. Ramsey explores the landscape … read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Let There Be Light

By: Liana Finck

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A bold retelling of the Book of Genesis, starring a female God, from the acclaimed New Yorker carto… read more

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12. Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

By: Peggy Orenstein

4.24

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daugh… read more

Similar categories in Peggy Orenstein's Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity book and Jennifer S. Hirsch's Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus

  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • sociology
"Psychologist Michael Thompson has pointed out that silence in the face of cruelty or sexism is how boys become men."

-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

"They [boys] are particularly eager to have their fathers talk to them about their own experience with sex, love, even regret."

-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

"At one time or another, every young man will get a letter of admission to dick school. The question is will he drop out, graduate, or go for an advanced degree?"

-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

"As culture critic Dara Mathis tweeted about Kanye West, 'Daughters are not spiritual retribution for your misogyny.' They are neither a form of punishment nor "tiny spiritual guides sent to newly sho…"

-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

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13. Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus

By: Jennifer S. Hirsch

4.50

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. Resear… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer S. Hirsch's Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus book and Jennifer S. Hirsch's Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus

  • social science
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • womens
  • education
  • sociology
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14. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.27

Format: 172 pages, ebook

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • academic
"Racism is, let us not forget, a means to reconcile contradictions. Only a society that extolled “liberty for all"

-Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

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15. I Didn't Know I Needed This The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Y

By: Eli Rallo

3.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From TikTok star Eli Rallo, an irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and searingly honest take on moder… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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16. Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

By: Anita Hill

4.18

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

"An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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17. We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.31

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

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18. The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole

By: Arielle Schwartz

4.24

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

A mind-body workbook for healing and overcoming Complex PTSD Those affected by complex PTSD, or C-… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
"Unresolved trauma can take a significant toll on your physical health. Unresolved childhood trauma is particularly insidious, with effects that are both gradual and cumulative."

-Arielle Schwartz, The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole

"Childhood trauma can range from having faces extreme violence and neglect to having confronted feelings of not belonging, being unwanted, or being chronically misunderstood. You may have grown up in …"

-Arielle Schwartz, The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole

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19. Old Flame

By: Molly Prentiss

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A highly anticipated new novel exploring what it means to be a woman in her many forms—daughter, fr… read more

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  • feminism
Cover of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus by Lisa Wade

20. American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus

By: Lisa Wade

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Offering invaluable insights for students, parents, and educators, Lisa Wade analyzes the mixed mes… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • education
  • sociology
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21. Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

By: Drew Afualo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Drew Afualo is best known as the internet’s 'Crusader for Women' and is at the head of a new genera… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction

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