Freedom & Prostitution
By: Cassandra Troyan
4.47
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Freedom & Prostitution proposes the dream of a world with…
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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
The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethicall… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"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 Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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- feminism
"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
3. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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- poetry
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
4. I've Got to Make My Livin': Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
By: Cynthia M. Blair
2.50
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- sex work
5. The Activist
By: Renee Gladman
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Fiction. African American Studies. Straddling fiction and poetry, Renee Gladman's writing operates … read more
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- poetry
6. The Prophet
By: Kahlil Gibran
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more
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- poetry
7. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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- feminism
8. My Prizes: An Accounting
By: Thomas Bernhard , Carol Brown Janeway
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A gathering of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of the twentieth century's most… read more
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- nonfiction
9. 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
10. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
By: Kathy Peiss
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's tu… read more
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12. The Young Man
By: Annie Ernaux
3.61
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more
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- nonfiction
13. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
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- nonfiction
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
14. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more
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"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
15. In the Dream House
By: Carmen Maria Machado
4.42
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"But this story? This one's mine."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"You tried to tell your story to people who didn't know how to listen."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
16. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
18. Pure Colour
By: Sheila Heti
3.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more
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"And what opens one heart opens many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour
19. The White Book
By: Han Kang
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more
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- poetry
"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."-Han Kang, The White Book
"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."-Han Kang, The White Book
"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."-Han Kang, The White Book
"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"-Han Kang, The White Book
20. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
By: Legacy Russell
3.81
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Simone de Beauvoir said “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The glitch announces: One i… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
3.91
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more
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"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
22. Luster
By: Raven Leilani
3.52
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office,… read more
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"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."-Raven Leilani, Luster
"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"-Raven Leilani, Luster
23. Detransition, Baby
By: Torrey Peters
3.94
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more
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"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
24. Indelicacy
By: Amina Cain
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a … read more
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"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
25. Animal
By: Lisa Taddeo
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse. Killing men in times like these.Joan has spent … read more
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"Let me tell you something, he said, looking into my eyes like an asshole."-Lisa Taddeo, Animal
"When someone suffocates you with what they believe is love, even as you feel your air supply being cut off, you at least feel embraced."-Lisa Taddeo, Animal
"The men noticed I'd stopped playing. Men are never okay when you stop. I had the fear of angering a man. Of not being an amenable woman. I had the fear of being murdered."-Lisa Taddeo, Animal
"He looked a little wounded, and I realized that true power came from not caring about anyone. That was the last time I would sleep with a man. I was through with the gender."-Lisa Taddeo, Animal
26. Revenge of the Scapegoat
By: Caren Beilin
3.44
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
One day Iris, an adjunct at a city arts college, receives a terrible package: recently unearthed le… read more
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27. Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
By: Matilda Bickers
4.41
Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition
Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It is an intimate portrait of the lives … read more
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- nonfiction
- sex work
"It cannot be forgotten that the downgrading of fiction from meaningful mythos to commodified entertainment is the extended work of colonial culture."-Matilda Bickers, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
"The question regularly resurfaces in leftist circles: "Will sex work exist after the revolution?" Maybe, and maybe not. Regardless of the answer to that question, two things remain true: people who t…"-Matilda Bickers, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
"While anti-sex work feminists see trading sex as the ultimate concession to patriarchy, I see it as a refusal. A refusal to accept the terms we've been given, to accept the violence of poverty, exhau…"-Matilda Bickers, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
"It is on us to imagine, plan, build, and re-create; and let us do so with joy. Write, draw, chat, dance, and sing yourself into a new future. Ask yourself what you really want, weave your community c…"-Matilda Bickers, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
28. Tropical Sacrifice
By: Lucas de Lima
4.73
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Tropical Sacrifice is a wishbone against a fascist heart/a prophetic, dream-filled narrative based … read more
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29. Freedom & Prostitution
By: Cassandra Troyan
4.47
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Freedom & Prostitution proposes the dream of a world with… read more
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30. Enjoy me among my ruins
By: Juniper Fitzgerald
4.09
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Combining sociological theory, fandom, and memoir, this experimental manifesto rejects dominant nar… read more
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- nonfiction
- sex work
31. Anemones: A Simone Weil Project
By: Lisa Robertson
4.70
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The author’s research on troubadour poetry yields this experiment in thinking ‘near and with’ philo… read more
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