12 best-selling philosophy books like Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System by Christopher Chitty

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Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System

By: Christopher Chitty

4.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the 500 year history of capitalist sexual relations by…

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1. Ugly Feelings

By: Sianne Ngai

4.20

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these … read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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2. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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3. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

By: David Wojnarowicz

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

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4. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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5. Pale Fire

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more

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6. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

By: Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times

By: Jasbir K. Puar

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, na… read more

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9. 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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10. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more

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11. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature

By: Janice A. Radway

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romancechallenges popular (and often demeaning) myths abo… read more

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12. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

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  • history
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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13. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

By: Derek Beres

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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15. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

16. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. 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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  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
"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

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18. Histories of the Transgender Child

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.40

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front… read more

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  • history
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • gender and sexuality
  • queer
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19. Cleanness

By: Garth Greenwell

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"Anything I am you have use for is yours."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

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20. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

By: Søren Mau

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. 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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  • lgbt
  • politics
  • gender
  • 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?

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22. Where Are We Now? The Epidemic as Politics

By: Giorgio Agamben

3.46

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In this volume, the renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has collected all of his fierce, p… read more

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23. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

By: Matteo Pasquinelli

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial fact… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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24. Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

By: Catherine Liu

3.81

Format: 90 pages, ebook

Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and vir… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"In the United States, generations of allegedly neutral experts have hollowed out public goods, degraded the public sphere, facilitated the monetization of everything from health to aptitude, and inde…"

-Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

"The novel predicted the triumphs of the post-1968 PMC: the moral rectitude of the virtuous lawyer and his high-spirited daughter renders the solution to racism attractive to the establishment—work on…"

-Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

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25. Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System

By: Christopher Chitty

4.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the 500 year history of capitalist sexual relations by… read more

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  • history
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • gender and sexuality
  • queer
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26. Transgender Marxism

By: Jules Joanne Gleeson

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Transgender Marxism collects a set of reflections on the relations between gender and labour, showi… read more

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  • lgbt
  • theory
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  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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27. The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science

By: Londa Schiebinger

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

As part of his attempt to secure a place for women in scientific culture, the Cartesian François Po… read more

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  • philosophy
  • gender
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

By: Hil Malatino

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing Some days—or we… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • gender and sexuality
  • queer
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29. Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

By: Eric A. Stanley

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past—marriage equality, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell,… read more

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  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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30. A Queer Theory of the State (Critic’s Essay Series)

By: Samuel Clowes Huneke

3.81

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Queer theory has often been hesitant to align itself with a politics of the state, approaching it w… read more

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  • queer
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31. Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory

By: Heather Love

4.21

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

A pathbreaking genealogy of queer theory that traces its roots to an unexpected sociological resea… read more

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11 Best history books like Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System by Christopher Chitty

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey

3.55

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8 Best history books like The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

Cory Doctorow

4.17

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