Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters
By: J. Jack Halberstam
4.14
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this examination of the monster as cultural object, J. Jack Halberstam offers a rereading of the…
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1. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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- gothic
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
2. 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
3. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.57
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more
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- nonfiction
"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
4. Queer Gothic
By: None , George E. Haggerty
3.94
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
George Haggerty examines the ways in which gothic fiction centers on loss as the foreclosure of hom… read more
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- gothic
- lgbt
- theory
- nonfiction
- horror
- queer
5. The Gilda Stories
By: Jewelle L. Gómez , Jewelle Gomez
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Storiesis a very A… read more
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- horror
- queer
- lgbt
6. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
7. Confessions of a Mask
By: Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more
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- queer
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8. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
By: José Esteban Muñoz
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays… read more
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- lgbt
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- queer
9. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
By: Carol J. Clover
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film … read more
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- film
- theory
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- horror
10. Written on the Body
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
11. 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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12. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
By: None , Lee Edelman
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Steven Marcus
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality Sexual Abberations Infantile Sexuality Transformations of P… read more
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16. On the Inconvenience of Other People (Writing Matters!)
By: Lauren Berlant
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagemen… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"In ambivalence, we want and we don’t want what we want. Or we want parts but not wholes and resent the added freight. Or we’re averse to what we’re attached to but can perform neither a reconciliatio…"-Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People (Writing Matters!)
17. 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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18. 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
- feminism
- 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?
19. A History of Women in 101 Objects
By: Annabelle Hirsch
4.21
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Discover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate obje… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"Pans and other such objects are the very opposite of monuments. They don't commemorate revolutions or victories on the battlefield; don't allude to great contracts or those moments of upheaval that h…"-Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects
20. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters
By: J. Jack Halberstam
4.14
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this examination of the monster as cultural object, J. Jack Halberstam offers a rereading of the… read more
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- theory
- feminism
- monsters
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- horror
- queer
21. My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage
By: Susan Stryker
4.70
Format: 18 pages, ebook
None read more
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- theory
- feminism
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- queer
"I will say this as bluntly as I know how: I am a transsexual, and therefore I am a monster. Just as the words “dyke"-Susan Stryker, My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage
"Hearken unto me, fellow creatures. I who have dwelt in a form unmatched with my desire. I whose flesh has become an assemblage of incongruous anatomical parts. I who achieve the similitude of a natur…"-Susan Stryker, My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage
