The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
By: Jane Ward
4.16
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Re…
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1. 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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- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"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
2. The Second Shift
By: Arlie Russell Hochschild , Anne Machung
4.15
Format: None pages,
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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- womens
- sociology
3. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
By: bell hooks
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more
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4. Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life
By: None
4.26
Format: 168 pages,
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5. Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them: When Loving Hurts and You Don't Know Why
By: Susan Forward , Joan Torres
3.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
Is this the way love is supposed to feel? * Does the man you love assume the right to control how y… read more
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6. 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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7. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- feminism
- womens
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
8. Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
By: Jessica Fern
4.40
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate se… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- queer
"A child with a secure attachment style will likely grow up into an adult who feels worthy of love and seeks to create meaningful, healthy relationships with people who are physically and emotionally …"-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
"Commitment can be expressed in many ways. Traditionally it is solidified through marriage, owning property, having kids or wearing certain types of jewelry, but legal, domestic, or ornamental underta…"-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
"When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer den…"-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
"Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population has a nervous system wired to be more sensitive. These people are more attuned to the subtleties of their environment and process that information muc…"-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
9. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
10. 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
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"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)
11. 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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- feminism
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
12. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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- theory
- feminism
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
13. 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
- nonfiction
14. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- womens
- sociology
- audiobook
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
15. 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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- queer
- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- sociology
- 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?
16. 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
- gender
- nonfiction
- womens
- sociology
- audiobook
"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
17. Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture
By: Sherronda J. Brown
4.53
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality—and an … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- audiobook
18. Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
By: Kate Manne
4.21
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
An urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the a… read more
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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- womens
- sociology
- audiobook
"by] torture for the rest of their slutty lives."-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"厌女症不应该被理解为一种对女性根深蒂固的强烈仇恨心理，而应该理解成父权制（patriarchy）在“执法"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"function. In my previous book, Down Girl, I argued that misogyny should not be understood as a monolithic, deep-seated psychological hatred of girls and women. Instead, it’s best conceptualized as th…"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"Studies show there is but one circumstance in which men’s and women’s household work will tend to approach parity: when she works full-time and he is unemployed. And even then, the operative word is …"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
19. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
By: Julia Shaw
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- audiobook
"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
20. The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
By: Hamilton Nolan
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in … read more
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- nonfiction
21. Our Polyvagal World: How Safety and Trauma Change Us
By: Stephen W. Porges
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The creator of the Polyvagal Theory explains the principles in simple terms that are accessible to … read more
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- nonfiction
22. 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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- audiobook
- feminism
- nonfiction
- sociology
- queer
23. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
By: Kate Manne
4.22
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to b… read more
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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- womens
- sociology
"Sexism is hence to bad science as misogyny is to moralism. Sexism wears a lab coat; misogyny goes on witch hunts."-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
"Women may not be simply human beings but positioned as human givers when it comes to the dominant men who look to them for various kinds of moral support, admiration, attention, and so on."-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
24. Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control
By: Amanda Montei
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An overwhelmed Mom reveals the intersection between misogyny and American motherhood and tracks a p… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
- sociology
- audiobook
25. 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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- theory
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
26. The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
By: Jane Ward
4.16
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Re… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- theory
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- womens
- sociology
- audiobook
27. Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back
By: Julia Serano
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The author of landmark manifesto Whipping Girl exposes the violent ways we are all sexualized–the… read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- sociology
- queer
"In other words, sexualization is a more general tactic to delegitimize and dehumanize people. This helps to explain why there is often so much shame, reluctance, and secrecy surrounding discussions o…"-Julia Serano, Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back
"However, the answer "Some people simply are transgender" doesn't seem to satisfy certain people, so they may feel compelled to seek out some kind of alternative explanation. Once again, this isn't th…"-Julia Serano, Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back
28. The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
By: Stephen W. Porges
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Bridging the gap between research, science, and the therapy room. When The Polyvagal Theory was pub… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex
By: Casey Tanner
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking guide to sexuality that dispels the stale cultural attitudes about sex that le… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- queer
30. Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
By: Rose Hackman
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ An urgent look at emotional labor ....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possibl… read more
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- nonfiction
- womens
- sociology
- audiobook
31. Machtübernahme: Was passiert, wenn Rechtsextremisten regieren | Eine Anleitung zum Widerstand
By: Arne Semsrott
4.50
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Demokratie in Gefahr – und was wir dagegen tun können Es sind beunruhigende Vor wenigen Jahren … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
