6 Top history books like A Little Feminist History of Art by Charlotte Mullins

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A Little Feminist History of Art

By: Charlotte Mullins

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Mullins’s A Little Feminist History of Art is a short and pithy introduction to the most …

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1. Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

By: Marina Abramović

4.56

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Kelionėse išlieki jaunas, nes neturi kada senti."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Pour atteindre un objectif, il faut tout donner jusqu'à ce qu'il ne vous reste rien. Alors, votre objectif se réalisera tout seul."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Il arrive que ce que les morts laissent en partant nous apprenne sur eux des choses qu'ils ne nous auraient jamais dites de leur vivant."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

"Il arrive qu'on fasse des pieds et des mains pour atteindre un objectif, mais il vous échappe parce que les lois cosmiques suivent une autre voie."

-Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

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2. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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  • feminism
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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3. The Children of Jocasta

By: Natalie Haynes

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents... Jocasta is just… read more

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4. Tales from Moominvalley (The Moomins, #7)

By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these nine delightfully funny stories, readers will discover how the Moomin family spend their f… read more

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5. Moominpappa at Sea (The Moomins, #8)

By: Tove Jansson , Kingsley Hart

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Moomin family members need a change of scenery, they decide to take up residence in a ligh… read more

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6. Moominsummer Madness (The Moomins, #5)

By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

When a flood sweeps through the valley, the Moomins must find a new house. And with typical Moomin … read more

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7. Moominpappa's Memoirs (The Moomins, #4)

By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Before he had a family, before he met Moominmamma, Moominpappa led a life of adventure and intrigue… read more

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8. Little Birds

By: Anaïs Nin

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex … read more

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9. Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-1932)

By: Anaïs Nin

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Taken from the original, uncensored journals of Anais Nin, Henry and Junespans a single year in Nin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)

By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch

3.42

Format: None pages,

It is spring in the valley and the Moomins are ready for adventure Moomintroll and his friends Snuf… read more

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11. Sexing the Cherry

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in th… read more

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12. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

By: William Blake

4.09

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more

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  • art
"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

13. Joan of Arc

By: Mark Twain

3.81

Format: 263 pages,

"I like Joan of Arcbest of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides,… read more

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14. Investigations of a Dog

By: Franz Kafka

4.62

Format: None pages,

"Investigations of a Dog" (German: "Forschungen eines Hundes") is a short story by Franz Kafka writ… read more

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15. Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2)

By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

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16. The Moomins and the Great Flood (The Moomins, #1)

By: Tove Jansson , David McDuff

3.77

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

The Moomins and the Great Flood is the first book about the Moomins, originally published in 1945. … read more

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17. 50 Art Ideas You Really Need to Know

By: Susie Hodge

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

A visit to an art gallery can be a baffling experience - a bewildering parade of paintings, sculptu… read more

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18. Inseparable

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more

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  • feminism
"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

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19. Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

By: Catherine McCormack

4.35

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their b… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"[We are]expected to be wooed and seduced by the male artist’s libidinous vision, a vision that has dominated and come to define our perception of genius, beauty and value from the perspective of the …"

-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

"society tolerates sexually explicit images of women as long as they conform to an ideal that doesn’t relate to women’s autonomous erotic pleasure. Encouraged to be hyper-sexualised and available spec…"

-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

"The problem is not that erotically charged images can’t also be seen as culturally valuable expressions (they can), but that woman’s highest cultural expression has been as a passive sex object, and …"

-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

"Picasso and Modigliani’s ‘Venuses’ represent a sort of iconoclasm in their self-conscious rejection of the cold, perfectly-finished, stuffy beauty of the Western tradition of art. For the contemporar…"

-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

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20. The Dry Heart

By: Natalia Ginzburg

4.00

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more

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  • feminism
"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."

-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

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21. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

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22. Vi for upp med mor (Jana Kippo, #2)

By: Karin Smirnoff

4.18

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Modren har dött och vill begravas i sin hemby Kukkojärvi i norra Norrbotten. Tvillingarna jana och … read more

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23. The Story of Art Without Men

By: Katy Hessel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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24. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

By: Olivia Laing

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"

-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

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25. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

By: Linda Nochlin

4.33

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" is a 1971 essay by American art historian Linda Nochl… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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26. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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27. Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

By: Silvia Federici

4.14

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, incl… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
"In capitalism, sex can exist but only as a productive force at the service of procreation and the regeneration of the waged/male working and as a mean of social appeasement and compensation for the m…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

"[V]iolence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

"[W]omen were those most likely to be victimized because they were the most 'disempowered' by these changes, especially older women, who often rebelled against their impoverishment and social exclusio…"

-Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

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28. She Fits Inside These Words (Volume 4) (What She Felt)

By: R.H. Sin

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From New York Times  bestselling authors r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake with bestselling poet Samanth… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"I didn't want advice; I didn't want a solution. I just wanted you to hug me. That was it, and one day you'll read these words, and you will have realized that you were too late."

-R.H. Sin, She Fits Inside These Words (Volume 4) (What She Felt)

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29. Feminist City: A Field Guide

By: Leslie Kern

3.92

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"En su ensayo “Merodeo callejero: una aventura londinense"

-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide

"La figura del flâneur, famosa por su rol en la obra de Charles Baudelaire, remite a un caballero que es un “espectador apasionado"

-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide

"La separación de los espacios en función del género significaba que la producción podía alinearse con el mundo de los hombres, y el consumo, con el de las mujeres."

-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide

"Lorna Day, directora de Diseño Urbano en Toronto, se enteró hace poco de que los lineamientos de la ciudad para calcular los efectos del viento partían de una “persona estándar"

-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide

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30. New York City in 1979

By: Kathy Acker

3.11

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

"It is necessary to go to as many extremes as possible." A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and … read more

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  • feminism
"Intense sexual desire is the best thing in the world."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"old people have to go to children's or most often to rest homes where they are shunted into wheelchairs and made as fast as possible into zombies cause it's easier to handle a zombie, if you have to …"

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

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31. A Little Feminist History of Art

By: Charlotte Mullins

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Mullins’s A Little Feminist History of Art is a short and pithy introduction to the most … read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction

11 Top nonfiction books like A Little Feminist History of Art by Charlotte Mullins

Transform Your Habits

Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

Marina Abramović

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-1932)

Anaïs Nin

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

Catherine McCormack

4.35

Transform Your Habits

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

Mona Chollet

4.10

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The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

Deborah Levy , Violette Leduc , Derek Coltman

3.69

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Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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Melikşah Altuntaş

3.35

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