7 best-selling queer books like Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages by Roland Betancourt

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Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages

By: Roland Betancourt

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval world While the term “intersectio…

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1. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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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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  • nonfiction
  • history
"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. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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4. The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

By: Monique Wittig

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writin… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt

5. Come Close

By: Sappho

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful ...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, … read more

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6. 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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7. Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion

By: Caroline Walker Bynum

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Arguing that historians must write in a comic mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompl… read more

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8. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

By: Audre Lorde

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more

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9. A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

By: Edwin H. Friedman , None , None

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Ten years after his death, Edwin Friedman's insights into leadership are more urgently needed than … read more

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10. Men Who Hate Women

By: Laura Bates

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

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11. Niente di vero

By: Veronica Raimo

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more

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"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"

-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero

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12. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

By: Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"

-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

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13. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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14. Lote

By: Shola von Reinhold

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Solitary Mathilda has long harbored a conflicted enchantment bordering on rapture with the "Bright … read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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15. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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16. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

By: Leah DeVun

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who … read more

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  • history
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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17. Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages

By: Roland Betancourt

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval world While the term “intersectio… read more

Similar categories in Roland Betancourt's Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages book and Roland Betancourt's Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages

  • art
  • race
  • history
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • queer
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18. Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism

By: Heather Berg

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the st… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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19. The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (ASTERISK)

By: Cameron Awkward-Rich

4.30

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that… read more

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  • lgbt
  • gender
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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20. Making Women's Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology

By: Monica H. Green

4.47

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Making Women's Medicine Masculine challenges the common belief that prior to the eighteenth century… read more

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  • feminism
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • academic
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21. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

By: Alicia Spencer-Hall

3.86

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • gender

7 best-selling history books like Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages by Roland Betancourt

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The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

Leah DeVun

4.13

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16 Top history books like The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun

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Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection (Mit Press)

Katharine Park

4.23

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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi

3.57

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Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Huw Lemmey

3.55

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