10 must-read nonfiction books like Gender in History: Global Perspectives by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

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Gender in History: Global Perspectives

By: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

3.98

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

GENDER IN HISTORY Praise for the first “Wiesner-Hanks ... accomplishes a near-impossible feat - a …

"… Ancak kalıtımsal aristokrasi, sınıf ya da ırk gibi hiyerarşiler, güçlü veya zengin erkeklerle bağlantılı kadınlara imtiyaz sağladığından, kadınlar kendilerini aslında diğer kadınlarla aynı kaderi paylaşan, erkeklerden ayrı bir grup olarak görmeyerek, genellikle kendilerini ikincil konumda tutan kurumları, entelektüel yapıları desteklediler ki bu da Gramsci'nin hegemonya düşüncesine iyi bir örnektir."

-Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Gender in History: Global Perspectives

"… Ancak kalıtımsal aristokrasi, sınıf ya da ırk gibi hiyerarşiler, güçlü veya zengin erkeklerle bağlantılı kadınlara imtiyaz sağladığından, kadınlar kendilerini aslında diğer kadınlarla aynı kaderi paylaşan, erkeklerden ayrı bir grup olarak görmeyerek, genellikle kendilerini ikincil konumda tutan kurumları, entelektüel yapıları desteklediler ki bu da Gramsci'nin hegemonya düşüncesine iyi bir örnektir."

-Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Gender in History: Global Perspectives

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Gender in History: Global Perspectives by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. İnsan Olmak

By: Engin Geçtan

4.41

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

İlk kez yayımlandığı 1983'ten günümüze defalarca baskı yapmış ve okurla kurduğu yapıcı ilişkiyi kan… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

By: Mark Wolynn

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generatio… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Stå fast

By: Svend Brinkmann

4.19

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Overalt i dagens samfunn motes vi av kravet om forandring. Pa jobben skal vi rasjonaliseres, omorga… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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  • nonfiction
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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5. Trilogia della città di K.

By: Ágota Kristóf , Armando Marchi , Giovanni Bogliolo , Virginia Ripa di Meana

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

<>. Rosetta Loy Il grande quaderno La prova La terza menzogna read more

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6. The Complete Essays

By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech

4.23

Format: 1344 pages, Paperback

Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The thing I fear most is fear."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"We should tend our freedom wisely."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

7. The Art of Loving

By: Erich Fromm , Rainer Funk , Peter D. Kramer

3.45

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown mill… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Puslu Kıtalar Atlası

By: İhsan Oktay Anar

3.84

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Yeniceriler kapiyi zorlarken Uzun Ihsan Efendi hala malum konuyu dusunuyor, fakat isin icinden bir … read more

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9. Uzumaki, Vol. 2

By: Junji Ito

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

A sleepy town on the coast of Japan is under quiet, deadly siege, not by a person or group but by a… read more

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10. Uzumaki, Vol. 3

By: Junji Ito

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Kurozu-cho, a fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is haunted by a recurring pattern: a spiral mani… read more

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11. Arv og miljø

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

At ingen av dere pa noe tidspunkt har spurt meg om min historie, har jeg opplevd og opplever jeg so… read more

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12. Gulyabani

By: Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"Ta karsidan, bahcenin derinliklerinden, servi ve kavaklar ile bir boyda bir minare belirdi. Bu, ta… read more

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13. Poor Things

By: Alasdair Gray

3.94

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more

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  • historical
"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

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14. No Longer Human

By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene

3.99

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poign… read more

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"Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

15. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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16. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.82

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more

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"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

17. Galatea

By: Madeline Miller

4.09

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his master… read more

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18. Tek Tanrılı Dinler Karşısında Kadın

By: Fatmagül Berktay

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

Kadinin ikinciliginin dogal kabul edilerek bunun onun bedeninin denetlenmesinin mesru gerekcesi say… read more

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19. Los armarios vacíos

By: Annie Ernaux

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Es la historia de una ruptura social, de una hija atrapada entre dos mundos: el de sus padres, prol… read more

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  • feminism
"Farklılıkların paradan kaynaklanabileceği hiç aklıma gelmezdi, insanların doğuştan temiz ya da pasaklı, zevk sahibi ya da sallapati olduğunu sanırdım. Ayyaşlık, konserve et, kenefin yanındaki çiviye …"

-Annie Ernaux, Los armarios vacíos

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20. 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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21. Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor

By: Melikşah Altuntaş

3.35

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

“Arkamda yaylılar çalıyor. Biri bir filmde ya da dizide gururla yürüdüğünde çaldığı gibi. Hep hüzün… read more

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22. The Dry Heart

By: Natalia Ginzburg

4.00

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more

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  • feminism
"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."

-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

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23. Long Live the Post Horn!

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.67

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much … read more

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  • feminism
"A letter is practically a gift."

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

"What do we do with our despair if our lives are too small to contain it?’ . . . .accept that there’s so much we’ll never understand intellectually and try to live with things which don’t add up, that…"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Long Live the Post Horn!

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24. A Woman's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

4.23

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

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25. Bu Hikâye Senden Uzun Osman

By: Aylin Balboa

4.18

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

“Öyle işte. Hâlâ biraz soğuk geliyor ama battıkça alışıyorum. Kendimi boşa aldım bayırdan aşağı ko… read more

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26. Deli İbram Divanı

By: Ahmet Büke

4.34

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Deli İbram Divanı, öykücülüğümüzün yaşayan büyük ismi Ahmet Büke’nin romanda da ne kadar mahir oldu… read more

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27. La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.90

Format: 96 pages, ebook

Il mondo contemporaneo è terrorizzato dalla sofferenza. La paura del dolore è così pervasiva e diff… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Tiamat

By: İhsan Oktay Anar

3.64

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“Başlangıçta her şey soğuk, boş ve anlamsızdı. Kutsal Rüzgâr sular üzerinde okşar gibi anaforlarla … read more

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29. Cennetteki İlk Günüm Bir Tık Daha İyi Olabilirdi

By: Sezen Ünlüönen

3.26

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

“Şimdi böyle gevşek gevşek anlattığıma bakma, yine de rahmetli neneciğimin her bayram kestirdiği ko… read more

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30. How to Judge People by What They Look Like

By: Edward Dutton

3.69

Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition

‘You can’t judge people by what they look like!’ It’s drummed into us as children and, as this book… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Gender in History: Global Perspectives

By: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

3.98

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

GENDER IN HISTORY Praise for the first “Wiesner-Hanks ... accomplishes a near-impossible feat - a … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • gender
  • gender studies
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"… Ancak kalıtımsal aristokrasi, sınıf ya da ırk gibi hiyerarşiler, güçlü veya zengin erkeklerle bağlantılı kadınlara imtiyaz sağladığından, kadınlar kendilerini aslında diğer kadınlarla aynı kaderi p…"

-Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Gender in History: Global Perspectives

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3.94

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Natalia Ginzburg

4.00

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3.67

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4.23

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3.87

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3.69

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