7 best-selling theory books like Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies) by Jennifer C. Nash

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Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)

By: Jennifer C. Nash

4.21

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectio…

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1. Citizen: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.27

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
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"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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2. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Toni Cade Bambara , Cherríe L. Moraga

4.52

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. … read more

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  • race
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"This Bridge Called My Back intends to reflect an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color in the U.S."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I get angry with those in the women's movement and out of it who deal with class & color as if they defined politics and people."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"These women don't believe in the sanctity of the marriage bond, the inviolable privacy of the husband-wife unit. The cattiness is mixed with the information, tips. The misery is communal."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

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3. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

By: Brittney Cooper

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Black women are often considered angry and divisive in their interactions with others in both publi… read more

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  • feminism
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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4. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

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  • race
  • feminism
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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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5. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

By: bell hooks

4.18

Format: None pages,

Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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6. Ossuaries

By: Dionne Brand

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dionne Brand's hypnotic, urgent long poem - her first book of poetry in four years, is about the bo… read more

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7. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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8. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

By: Patricia Hill Collins

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have deve… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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9. Living a Feminist Life

By: Sara Ahmed

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Living a Feminist LifeSara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and t… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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10. The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities

By: Eric Hayot

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and … read more

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  • nonfiction

11. Pansy

By: Andrea Gibson

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

In PANSY, Gibson balances themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, illness, family and forgiven… read more

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12. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

By: Janet Mock

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In 2011, Marie Clairemagazine published a profile of Janet Mock in which she stepped forward for th… read more

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13. 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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14. 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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15. Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

By: bell hooks

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

When Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recoverywas originally released in 1994, it won criti… read more

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16. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study

By: J. Jack Halberstam , Fred Moten , Stefano Harney

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black… read more

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17. Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

By: None

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jon… read more

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18. The Cabinet

By: Kim Un-Su

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Munhakdongne Novel Award, South Korea’s most prestigious literary prize. Cabinet 1… read more

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"There are two types of lives people can live,' he said. 'The kind of life in which one writes in a diary every day, and the kind of life in which one doesn't. They're as different as a country with a…"

-Kim Un-Su, The Cabinet

"I wonder if my lost time is rolling around somewhere. I could have loved someone with that time -- I could have done something beautiful for someone. But I've nothing to show for that lost time. No w…"

-Kim Un-Su, The Cabinet

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19. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

By: Saidiya Hartman

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more

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  • race
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"

-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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20. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By: Kit Heyam

4.30

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity   Today’s narratives about trans people … read more

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  • gender
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

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21. The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

By: Junauda Petrus

4.26

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus’s bold and lyrical debut is the story … read more

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"You got to be yourself or else you end up someone else you probably don’t like."

-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

"Her eyes were laughing and unashamed, like they had only known yes her whole life."

-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

"I hearing Queenie’s words: “Let the pain leave out of you with each breath. It want to be free too,"

-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

"And nothing in life prepares you to live, truly live… you alive until you ain’t, so live in any way you can."

-Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

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22. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

By: Amia Srinivasan

4.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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23. 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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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
"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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24. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)

By: Micha Frazer-Carroll

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’  Dazed ‘E… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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25. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

By: Kate Manne

4.22

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to b… read more

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  • feminist theory
  • feminism
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  • gender
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"Sexism is hence to bad science as misogyny is to moralism. Sexism wears a lab coat; misogyny goes on witch hunts."

-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

"Women may not be simply human beings but positioned as human givers when it comes to the dominant men who look to them for various kinds of moral support, admiration, attention, and so on."

-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"

-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"

-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

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26. The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

By: Jane Ward

4.16

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Re… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
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27. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

By: Tomi Adeyemi

3.49

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zélie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart… read more

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"Do not pray to be saved; pray to be reborn."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I like hearing your people call out to your gods- they never seem to come."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I teach you to be warriors in the garden, so that you may never be gardeners in a war."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

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28. Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)

By: Jennifer C. Nash

4.21

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectio… read more

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  • race
  • feminist theory
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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29. Black Trans Feminism

By: Marquis Bey

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in w… read more

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  • race
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
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30. Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity

By: Paisley Currah

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

PROSE Award- Government and Politics Finalist What the evolving fight for transgender rights revea… read more

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  • feminism
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  • gender
  • nonfiction
"The once-undeniable public fact of sex as easily and objectively knowable has lost its authority; the common sense of sex will never be made whole again, if it ever was."

-Paisley Currah, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity

"There is something about sex classification that make different sex reclassification policies seem not just unfair, but contradictory, even paradoxical. Perhaps because sex is thought to be prior to …"

-Paisley Currah, Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity

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31. Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws

By: Catharine A. MacKinnon

3.94

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theori… read more

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"In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man or like a lady. We have to meet either the male standard for males or the male standard for females."

-Catharine A. MacKinnon, Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws

"Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation a…"

-Catharine A. MacKinnon, Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws

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