How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
By: Sandra Eder
4.23
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. Today, a world …
Want to Read $ 25.42"His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a deep class-consciousness alongside his ambition to transcend his meager beginning, Science would become his religion"-Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
"Money spent the rest of his childhood in a predominantly female household in consistent poverty. His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a deep class-consciousness alongside his ambition to transcend his meager beginning, Science would become his religion"-Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
"[John] Money spent the rest of his childhood in a predominantly female household in consistent poverty. His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a deep class-consciousness alongside his ambition to transcend his meager beginning, Science would become his religion."-Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
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1. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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- nonfiction
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
2. Complete Writings
By: Phillis Wheatley , Vincent Carretta
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a yo… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
3. Human, All Too Human
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , R.J. Hollingdale
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
This volume presents Nietzsche's remarkable collection of almost 1400 aphorisms in R. J. Hollingdal… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite
By: Michel Foucault , Herculine Barbin , Richard McDougall
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls & the torrid style of the romantic novels of… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
By: John Colapinto
2.90
Format: 96 pages,
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical trea… read more
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- gender
- nonfiction
6. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
7. The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
By: Michel Foucault , None
3.95
Format: 161 pages,
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Madness, sexuality, power, know… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
8. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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- gender
- nonfiction
9. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
By: Michel Foucault
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . With vast erudition, Foucault c… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
10. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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11. The Day of the Triffids
By: John Wyndham
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more
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12. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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13. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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14. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
15. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
By: Michel Foucault , None
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In the eighteenth century, medi… read more
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16. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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17. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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18. 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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19. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
20. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
By: Abigail Shrier
4.14
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Irreversible Damage is an exploration of a mystery: Why, in the last decade, has the diagnosis "gen… read more
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- gender
- nonfiction
"Women feel things deeply. We empathize. For good reason, when asked to identify their best friend, most men name their wives; most women name another woman."-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
"For those of you who have ever been an adolescent or attempted the toe-curling, hair-whitening endeavor of raising one—hold your laughter. Resist the urge to squeal out loud at the preposterous notio…"-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
"Nearly every novel problem teenagers face traces itself back to 2007 and the introduction of Steve Jobs’s iPhone. In fact, the explosion in self-harm can be so precisely pinpointed to the introductio…"-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
21. ADHD 2.0 : New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood
By: Edward M. Hallowell
4.09
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help rea… read more
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- nonfiction
22. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
23. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
By: Abigail Shrier
4.06
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more
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- nonfiction
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
24. GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men's Reproductive Health
By: Rene Almeling
3.85
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
What is healthy sperm or the male biological clock ? This book details why we don't talk about me… read more
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- nonfiction
25. Vladimir
By: Julia May Jonas
3.44
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew … read more
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"Onları konuştur! (Kendi düşündüklerinden başka bir şeyle ilgilenmiyorlar zaten.)"-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
"I didn’t want to be in the world, around all those people who didn’t read books, who didn’t think they were important."-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
"Bazen iyi yaşanmış bir hayat gibi geliyor gözüme. Bazen de her şeyi yakıp kül etmek, minimalist olmak geliyor içimden."-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
"She is delighted with herself, unaware of the mess she is making, the sight she looks, the implications of her movements."-Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
26. The Second Chance Year
By: Melissa Wiesner
3.99
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this unforgettable story full of charm, wit—and just a bit of magic—a woman down on her luck is … read more
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"Nothing that starts with ‘come on, it will be fun’ is ever fun."-Melissa Wiesner, The Second Chance Year
"I click over to Instagram, the only thing that can make me feel worse."-Melissa Wiesner, The Second Chance Year
27. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- gender
- gender and sexuality
28. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
29. How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
By: Sandra Eder
4.23
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. Today, a world … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- gender
- gender and sexuality
"His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a deep class-consciousness alongside his ambition to transcend his meager beginning, Science would become his…"-Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
"Money spent the rest of his childhood in a predominantly female household in consistent poverty. His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a deep class…"-Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
"[John] Money spent the rest of his childhood in a predominantly female household in consistent poverty. His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a dee…"-Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea
30. Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
By: Natalia Molina
4.08
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
31. Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (American Business, Politics, and Society)
By: Brenna Wynn Greer
4.63
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 1948, Moss Kendrix, a former New Deal public relations officer, founded a highly successful, Was… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
