Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life
By: Lizzie Borden
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Illuminating accounts of how stripping and sex work informs writers’ experiences of friendship, mot…
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1. The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
By: Dossie Easton , Catherine A. Liszt
3.93
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
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"Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
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"A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
2. The Beaver Show
By: Jacqueline Frances
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
"I dance. Naked. For large (and occasionally insultingly modest) sums of money." It all started fiv… read more
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3. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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4. Flesh for Fantasy: Producing and Consuming Exotic Dance
By: Merri Lisa Johnson , Katherine Frank , None
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
With a recent burst of feature films, documentaries, and books on strippers, the business of exotic… read more
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5. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
6. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
7. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex
By: Sophia Giovannitti
4.07
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice… read more
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8. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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9. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
By: Roxane Gay
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more
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10. Dykette
By: Jenny Fran Davis
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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11. Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
By: Maya Schenwar
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A crucial indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” that exposes how many of th… read more
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"The same factors that propelled mass incarceration - racism, "law and order" politics, the war on drugs, the destruction of the social safety net - also propelled mass supervision."-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
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"Many types of treatment claim to be about fixing the so-called problems of madness. The real problem is that certain ways of experiencing the world are seen as categorical threats— to normativity, to…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
12. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
By: Carrie Courogen
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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13. Thirst
By: Marina Yuszczuk
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more
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14. Females
By: Andrea Long Chu
3.59
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to b… read more
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"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."-Andrea Long Chu, Females
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15. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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16. The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
By: Robin R. Means Coleman
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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17. Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work
By: Bill Burnett
3.80
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
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18. Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life
By: Lizzie Borden
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Illuminating accounts of how stripping and sex work informs writers’ experiences of friendship, mot… read more
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- sexuality
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- womens
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19. Modern Whore
By: Andrea Werhun
4.23
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Born out of an irrepressible urge to share my own complex experience of sex work, Modern Whore is a… read more
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20. This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir
By: Cid V. Brunet
3.99
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
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21. An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work
By: Charlotte Shane
3.28
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tende… read more
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