7 Top theory books like Gore Capitalism by Sayak Valencia

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Gore Capitalism

By: Sayak Valencia

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of cap…

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1. Fiesta en la madriguera

By: Juan Pablo Villalobos

3.78

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A Tochtli le gustan los sombreros, los diccionarios, los samuráis, las guillotinas y los franceses.… read more

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"Це весела тема - з війною, мерцями і кров'ю."

-Juan Pablo Villalobos, Fiesta en la madriguera

"In the end I chose the names I still liked after repeating then 100 times. It's a foolproof test. You repeat something 100 times and if you still like it it's because it's good. This doesn't just wor…"

-Juan Pablo Villalobos, Fiesta en la madriguera

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2. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Sonia Saldívar-Hull

4.33

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence o… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep"

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?"

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

"Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads"

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

3. Distant Star

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more

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4. 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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5. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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6. 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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7. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more

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8. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

By: Irene Solà

3.91

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more

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"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."

-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

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9. Perras de reserva

By: Dahlia de la Cerda

4.28

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

“Las mujeres podemos ser muy horribles, plebe” Para sobrevivir en los rincones más injustos del pa… read more

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  • feminism
"Lo que empieza recio, recio se termina."

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva

"México es un monstruo enorme que devora a las mujeres. México es un desierto hecho de polvo de huesos. México es un cementerio de cruces rosas. México es un país que odia a las mujeres."

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras de reserva

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10. Poison Ivy, Vol. 1: The Virtuous Cycle

By: G. Willow Wilson

4.29

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Pamela Isley has been a lot of things in her life. A living god, a super-villain, an activist, a sc… read more

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11. Casas vacías

By: Brenda Navarro

4.23

Format: 209 pages, ebook

Casas vacías habla del dolor de las mujeres ante la desaparición de un hijo y de su propia vida. Es… read more

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  • feminism
"¿Por qué les llaman desaparecidos y no se atreven a llamarlos muertos? Porque los muertos somos los que los buscamos, ellos siempre, siempre seguirán vivos."

-Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

"Me faltan kilos, me sobran ropa, personas, horas. ¿En qué momento me darán ganas de ir y tirarme por la ventana? Quizá deba admitir que la tristeza me acomoda porque soy egoísta."

-Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

"Las clases sociales no se rozan. Y en todo caso, si nosotros teníamos acceso a ese tipo de relaciones era por la nacionalidad de Fran y Nagore, no por el dinero. O eres rico o eres blanco, no hay mat…"

-Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

"Que se acabara todo de una vez y para siempre. Que hubiera un terremoto, una bomba, una guerra, una pistola, unos insurrectos rencorosos, una araña venenosa, un edificio de veinte pisos, una valentía…"

-Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

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12. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

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13. 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
  • economics
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14. Necropolitics (Theory in Forms)

By: Achille Mbembe

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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15. La cabeza de mi padre

By: Alma Delia Murillo

4.26

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

Escribo para soltar el peso de cuarenta años rumiando el mito de mi padre, las infinitas versiones … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Las abuelas son la literatura del mundo."

-Alma Delia Murillo, La cabeza de mi padre

"Todo lo que ocurre, ocurre para ser contado."

-Alma Delia Murillo, La cabeza de mi padre

"No hay peor ciego que el que está cegado por su pasión."

-Alma Delia Murillo, La cabeza de mi padre

"...la comodidad es una enfermedad degenerativa y mortal."

-Alma Delia Murillo, La cabeza de mi padre

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16. El patriarcado del salario: Críticas feministas al marxismo

By: Silvia Federici

4.20

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Marx entendió el capitalismo como una etapa necesaria para llegar a una sociedad sin clases en un m… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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17. Fruto

By: Daniela Rea

4.62

Format: 381 pages, None

Cuidar nos conserva, nos sostiene y nos reúne, pero también nos arrasa y nos agota. En Fruto, las c… read more

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  • feminism
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18. 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
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

By: Cinzia Arruzza

4.03

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these a… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"confront head on, the real source of crisis and misery, which is capitalism."

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"who will guide the process of societal transformation, in whose interest, and to what end?"

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"What we are living through is a crisis of society as a whole—and its root cause is capitalism."

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"Liberal feminism’s ethos converges not only with corporate mores but also with supposedly “transgressive"

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

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20. Desde los zulos

By: Dahlia de la Cerda

4.30

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Mezclando la autoficción, la crónica y el pensamiento feminista, en Desde los zulos Dahlia de la Ce… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Un cuarto propio también son los privilegios que ayudan a que una mujer escriba. Una jornada laboral de menos de ocho horas es un cuarto propio. Dinero y tiempo para ir a un café a escribir es un cua…"

-Dahlia de la Cerda, Desde los zulos

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21. Gore Capitalism

By: Sayak Valencia

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of cap… read more

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  • academia
  • history
  • class
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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