6 must-read history books like Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin

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Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

By: Lauren Elkin

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and…

If you liked the history plot in Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

By: Joanna Biggs

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times , The Week , Vulture , Elle, and The Mi… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Biggs's A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,"

-Joanna Biggs, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

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2. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • essays
  • audiobook
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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3. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • art
  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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4. Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

By: Suzanne Scanlon

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.   When Su… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Scanlon's Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Only in retrospect might I say I loved it there. I didn't love it. It became familiar. I got used to it. I became dependent upon it. This is not love."

-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

"I became a writer because I believe in that part of me who is not limited by age or gender or time or disability - yet still I am afraid to say it. Yes, I was ill."

-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

"I myself have internalized the self-loathing that at times can make me feel ashamed to be writing this book. But I also believe that, as my heroes have shown me, this is where a writer must go."

-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

"What if, instead of being diagnosed—being called mentally ill—what if I had been able to receive care for its own sake. To be in distress, to ask for care, to receive it. What if there were space in …"

-Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

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5. On Women

By: Susan Sontag

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on ag… read more

Similar categories in Susan Sontag's On Women book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • art
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
  • audiobook
"Dividing time into Past, Present, and Future suggests that reality is distributed equally among three parts, but in fact the past is the most real of all. The future is, inevitably, an accumulation o…"

-Susan Sontag, On Women

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6. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • art
  • feminism
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • audiobook
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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7. The Story of Art Without Men

By: Katy Hessel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more

Similar categories in Katy Hessel's The Story of Art Without Men book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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8. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Alphabetical Diaries book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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10. Lost in the Garden

By: Adam S. Leslie

3.73

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more

Similar categories in Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • contemporary
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11. No Judgment: Essays

By: Lauren Oyler

3.30

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new piece… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Oyler's No Judgment: Essays book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • essays
  • womens
  • audiobook
"I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,"

-Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays

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12. The Hearing Test

By: Eliza Barry Callahan

3.40

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Barry Callahan's The Hearing Test book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • art
  • contemporary
"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

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13. The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

By: Jennifer Higgie

4.08

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH'Illuminating in every sense of the w… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Higgie's The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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14. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

By: Lauren Elkin

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • essays
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • audiobook
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15. First Love: Essays on Friendship

By: Lilly Dancyger

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more

Similar categories in Lilly Dancyger's First Love: Essays on Friendship book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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16. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more

Similar categories in Elisa Gabbert's Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • essays
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • contemporary
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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18. The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience—500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits

By: Jennifer Higgie

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She’s Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Higgie's The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience—500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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19. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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20. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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21. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Lauren Elkin's Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

  • contemporary
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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3.70

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Adam S. Leslie

3.73

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3.40

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Miranda July

3.81

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Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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