They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life
By: Alva Gotby
3.87
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The work of love is a feminist problem, and it demands feminist solutions Comforting a family memb…
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1. Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
By: Zahra Hankir
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homeland… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
2. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
3. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
By: Nancy Fraser
4.04
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more
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- theory
- feminism
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- social justice
4. 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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- feminism
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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
5. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- social justice
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
6. 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
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- nonfiction
7. Health Communism
By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more
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- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- social justice
8. 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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- feminism
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- nonfiction
- queer
9. My Work
By: Olga Ravn
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more
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- feminism
10. 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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- feminism
- politics
- 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?
11. Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
By: Kristen R. Ghodsee
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done rig… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
"If done properly, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work/family balance, and, yes, even better sex."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
"The state of being female is complicated by other categories such as class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and so on."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
"You are not a commodity. Your depression and anxiety are not just chemical imbalances in your brain but reasonable responses to a system that thrives on your dehumanization."-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
12. 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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- theory
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
13. 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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- theory
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- queer
14. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
By: Maggie Nelson
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture… read more
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- theory
- feminism
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- queer
"Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"This is one of the things I’ve learned about happiness: when you feel it, it’s good to say so. That way, if and when you say later in depression or despair, “I’ve just never been happy,"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"The reparative turn, as applied to art, is in many ways a continuation of the orthopedic aesthetic, with the difference being that the twentieth-century model imagined the audience as numb, constrict…"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
15. 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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- relationships
- love
- feminism
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- queer
16. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
By: M.E. O'Brien
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe … read more
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- politics
- queer
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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- theory
- feminism
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- social justice
"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. They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life
By: Alva Gotby
3.87
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The work of love is a feminist problem, and it demands feminist solutions Comforting a family memb… read more
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- relationships
- love
- theory
- feminism
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- social justice
- family
- queer
19. This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
By: Elias Jahshan
4.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Ara… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
"Those of us who suffer from severe anxiety and PTSD, in my case due to inferiority complexes and repeated emotional, physical and religious trauma from a young age, know that the fear of being found …"-Elias Jahshan, This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
20. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
4.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
21. Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)
By: Kevin Ochieng Okoth
4.15
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
Salvaging a decolonised futureRed Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
