9 must-read queer books like The Invention of Heterosexual Culture by Louis-Georges Tin

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The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

By: Louis-Georges Tin

3.90

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

The rise of heterosexual culture and the resistance it met from feudal lords, church fathers, and t…

If you liked the queer plot in The Invention of Heterosexual Culture by Louis-Georges Tin , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Fragments

By: James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.—twenty-five hundred years b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"All is flux"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Character is destiny"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"I went in search of myself."

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Man's character is his fate."

-James Hillman, Fragments

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2. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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3. Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards, and Let's Talk Tarot

By: Melissa Cynova

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Learn to read with your own voice and get the answers to all of your questions. For years, Melissa … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Cynova's Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards, and Let's Talk Tarot book and Louis-Georges Tin's The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

  • nonfiction
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4. Rosemary's Baby

By: Ira Levin

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unawar… read more

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5. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #29)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister in this classic from … read more

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7. Revenge

By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from… read more

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8. Libérées !

By: Titiou Lecoq

5.00

Format: 228 pages, ebook

Un jour, je me suis demandee : pourquoi est-ce moi qui ramasse les affaires qui trainent ? Je n'ai … read more

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9. La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

By: Panayotis Pascot

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

« Ce livre me fait peur. Le processus a été douloureux. Mon père nous a annoncé qu’il n’allait pas … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Je crois que j’ai une mémoire de la souffrance qui s’efface, par sympathie pour moi-même peut-être, pour avancer avec des valises plus légères"

-Panayotis Pascot, La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

"Daumesnil, quartier Ehpad, rempli de vieux de droite qui attendent que la mort (qui est clairement de gauche puisqu’elle attrape tout le monde sans distinction) vienne les choper dans leur sommeils"

-Panayotis Pascot, La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

"À quoi ça sert de faire mon lit, je vais le défaire ce soir ? Si on laisse cette pensée gagner on est foutu, c’est l’essence même de la vie de faire pour défaire. Après c’est pourquoi voir mes amis, …"

-Panayotis Pascot, La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

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10. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

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11. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

By: Elise Loehnen

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more

Similar categories in Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good book and Louis-Georges Tin's The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

  • nonfiction
  • history
"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."

-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

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12. Les Orageuses

By: Marcia Burnier

4.23

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

« Depuis qu’elle avait revu Mia, l’histoire de vengeance, non, de “rendre justice”, lui trottait da… read more

Similar categories in Marcia Burnier's Les Orageuses book and Louis-Georges Tin's The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

  • queer
  • lgbt
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13. La chair est triste hélas

By: Ovidie

4.17

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

" J'ai repensé à ces innombrables rapports auxquels je m'étais forcée par politesse, pour ne pas fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • queer
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14. En bons pères de famille

By: Rose Lamy

4.61

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

« Dans cette fiction sociale écrite par les bons pères de famille, les femmes et les enfants sont l… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Moi les hommes, je les déteste

By: Pauline Harmange

3.82

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

" Je vois dans la misandrie une porte de sortie. Une manière d'exister en dehors du passage clouté,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Les modèles qu’on inculque sont nocifs dans les deux cas : ni la violence qu’on encourage chez les garçons ni la passivité qu’on impose aux filles ne sont des réponses appropriées, pour soi comme pou…"

-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste

"Ce n'est pas pour cracher dans la soupe, mais il faut être honnête: non, mon amoureux n'est pas parfait. Il ne me viole pas et ne me frappe pas, il fait la vaisselle, passe l'aspirateur et me traite …"

-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste

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16. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

By: Katherine Angel

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of Me… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • sexuality
"The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Why not aim for sex itself as being deeply mutually pleasurable? Why not aim for a culture that embraces and enables women’s sexual pleasure, in all its complexity, and admits the complexity of male …"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norm…"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

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17. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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18. 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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  • queer
  • lgbt
"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

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19. 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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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • sexuality
"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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20. Les Hommes hétéros le sont-ils vraiment ?

By: Léane Alestra

4.38

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Si les femmes subissent l’injonction à être de « vraies femmes », les hommes, eux, sont sommés de… read more

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  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • lgbt
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21. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.41

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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22. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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23. Entretien avec un Cadavre: Un Médecin Légiste Fait Parler les Morts

By: Philippe Boxho

4.16

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

« Ce que j’affectionne par-dessus tout, c’est d’aller à la découverte des traces et des indices, de… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Good Neighbors

By: Sarah Langan

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Celeste Ng’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this prop… read more

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25. 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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  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • sociology
  • queer
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26. Ceci n'est pas un livre sur le genre

By: Morgan N. Lucas

4.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

À quoi savez-vous que vous êtes un homme, une femme ou que vous n'êtes ni l'un ni l'autre ? Est-… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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27. The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

By: Louis-Georges Tin

3.90

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

The rise of heterosexual culture and the resistance it met from feudal lords, church fathers, and t… read more

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  • history
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • sociology
  • queer
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28. Elles vécurent heureuses : L'amitié entre femmes comme idéal de vie

By: Johanna Cincinatis

4.30

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

Nous sommes de plus en plus nombreuses à mettre l'amitié au cœur de nos vies. Certaines amitiés fém… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. Mécanique du privilège blanc: Comment l'identifier et le déjouer ?

By: ESTELLE DEPRIS

4.94

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. De grandes dents

By: Lucile Novat

4.11

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Et si on avait fait fausse route dans l'interprétation du Petit Chaperon Rouge ? De cette histoire … read more

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  • nonfiction

7 must-read history books like The Invention of Heterosexual Culture by Louis-Georges Tin

Transform Your Habits

Fragments

James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

Mona Chollet

4.10

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13 must-read nonfiction books like La chair est triste hélas by Ovidie

Transform Your Habits

La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière

Panayotis Pascot

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Triste tigre

Neige Sinno

4.23

Transform Your Habits

La chair est triste hélas

Ovidie

4.17

Transform Your Habits

En bons pères de famille

Rose Lamy

4.61

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