13 Best queer books like The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto by Sandy Stone

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The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

By: Sandy Stone

4.19

Format: 20 pages, ebook

Stone’s essay is a retaliation to arguments such as that of feminist theorists (e.g. Janice Raymond…

If you liked the queer plot in The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto by Sandy Stone , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Freshwater

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.02

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • queer
  • lgbt
"It wasn’t me,"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

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2. King Kong théorie

By: Virginie Despentes

4.01

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more

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  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

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3. 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

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • feminism
  • queer
  • lgbt
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4. The Death of the Author

By: Roland Barthes

4.00

Format: 126 pages,

"The Death of the Author" is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes… read more

Similar categories in Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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5. Sexing the Cherry

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in th… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • queer
  • lgbt

6. SCUM Manifesto

By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more

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7. Herland

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Ann J. Lane

3.68

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male exp… read more

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8. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

Similar categories in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

9. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

By: Adrienne Rich

3.75

Format: 166 pages,

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10. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era

By: Paul B. Preciado , Bruce Benderson

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erec… read more

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11. Transgender History

By: Susan Stryker

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more

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12. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

Similar categories in Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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13. Play Boy

By: Constance Debré

3.25

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Play Boy book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • queer
  • lgbt
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14. Love Me Tender

By: Constance Debré

3.87

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Love Me Tender book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • feminism
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

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15. 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

Similar categories in Paul B. Preciado's Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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16. Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

By: Laboria Cuboniks

3.63

Format: 20 pages, ebook

“Xenofeminism is gender-abolitionist… Let a hundred sexes bloom! …[And, let’s] construct a society … read more

Similar categories in Laboria Cuboniks's Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"If nature is unjust, change nature!"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

"These puritanical politics of shame—which fetishize oppression as if it were a blessing, and cloud the waters in moralistic frenzies—leave us cold. We want neither clean hands nor beautiful souls, ne…"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

"Anyone who’s been deemed ‘unnatural’ in the face of reigning biological norms, anyone who’s experienced injustices wrought in the name of natural order, will realize that the glorification of ‘nature…"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

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17. We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.31

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. … read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3) book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)

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18. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

By: Laura Mulvey

3.99

Format: 15 pages, None

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays

19. Imitation and Gender Insubordination (The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader)

By: Judith Butler

3.95

Format: None pages, None

None read more

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Imitation and Gender Insubordination (The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader) book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Zira, lezbiyen-gösterenine başvurularak neyin kastedildiği her zaman için kesin bir belirsizlik içinde kalmıştır; zaten onun anlamlandırılması her zaman için bir derece kontrol dışıdır, ayrıca özgüll…"

-Judith Butler, Imitation and Gender Insubordination (The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader)

"Eğer toplumsal cinsiyet transvestit ise, ve eğer bu, yaklaşmayı denediği ideali düzenli olarak doğuran bir taklitse, o zaman toplumsal cinsiyet, bir içsel cinsiyet ya da öz ya da psişik toplumsal cin…"

-Judith Butler, Imitation and Gender Insubordination (The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader)

"Lezbiyenlik pek açık bir şekilde yasaklanmış değildir, çünkü düşünülebilir, tasavvur edilebilir olana (gerçek ve adlandırılabilir olan şeyleri düzenleyen kültürel anlaşılabilirlik kalıbına) girmenin …"

-Judith Butler, Imitation and Gender Insubordination (The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader)

"Lezbiyen teoriler, gey teoriler deyişi beni hiç rahatsız etmiyor, çünkü, başka bir yerde ileri sürmüş olduğum gibi, kimlik kategorileri -ister baskıcı yapıların normalleştirici kategorileri, bu baskı…"

-Judith Butler, Imitation and Gender Insubordination (The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader)

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20. 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

Similar categories in Susan Stryker's My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 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

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21. The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

By: Sandy Stone

4.19

Format: 20 pages, ebook

Stone’s essay is a retaliation to arguments such as that of feminist theorists (e.g. Janice Raymond… read more

Similar categories in Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto book and Sandy Stone's The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • gender and sexuality
  • queer

7 Best philosophy books like The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto by Sandy Stone

Transform Your Habits

King Kong théorie

Virginie Despentes

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Death of the Author

Roland Barthes

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

Laboria Cuboniks

3.63

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16 must-read nonfiction books like Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts by Paul B. Preciado

Transform Your Habits

King Kong théorie

Virginie Despentes

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Queer Art of Failure

J. Jack Halberstam

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

Monique Wittig

4.12

Transform Your Habits

La piedra de la locura

Benjamín Labatut

3.48

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