Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 3)
By: J. Jack Halberstam
3.84
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However,…
Want to Read $ 7.99"Cuando la lógica que fija la forma corporal a la práctica social desaparece, cuando las narrativas de sexo, género y corporalidad se relajan y se vuelven menos fijas en relación con la verdad, la autenticidad, la originalidad y la identidad, tenemos el espacio y el tiempo para imaginarnos los cuerpos de otra manera."-J. Jack Halberstam, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 3)
"Cuando la lógica que fija la forma corporal a la práctica social desaparece, cuando las narrativas de sexo, género y corporalidad se relajan y se vuelven menos fijas en relación con la verdad, la autenticidad, la originalidad y la identidad, tenemos el espacio y el tiempo para imaginarnos los cuerpos de otra manera."-J. Jack Halberstam, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 3)
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1. Poetics of Relation
By: Édouard Glissant , Betsy Wing
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Edouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writer… read more
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- theory
- nonfiction
2. 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
- gender
- queer
- lgbt
3. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
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- theory
- nonfiction
4. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
By: Carol J. Clover
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film … read more
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- theory
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
5. Lucy
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in pape… read more
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- feminism
6. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
By: Sara Ahmed
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to pro… read more
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7. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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8. Belonging: A Culture of Place
By: bell hooks
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
>What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can… read more
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9. 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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10. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
By: None , Lee Edelman
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory… read more
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11. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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12. Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
By: Leslie Feinberg
3.90
Format: 150 pages,
With a New Afterword by the AuthorIn this fascinating, personal journey through history, Leslie Fei… read more
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13. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
14. 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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15. 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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16. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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17. City of God
By: None
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
"City of Godis an unsparing account of devastation and empowerment in the age of AIDS. From the bod… read more
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18. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
19. Our Strangers: Stories
By: Lydia Davis
3.92
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more
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20. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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- gender
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
21. 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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- transgender
- lgbt
- theory
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- nonfiction
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22. The Fifth Wound
By: Aurora Mattia
4.41
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodi… read more
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- gender
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- transgender
- lgbt
23. Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir
By: Bishakh Kumar Som
3.52
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
This exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, explores the concept of identity by in… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
24. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- gender studies
- nonfiction
- queer
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
25. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
By: Hazel Jane Plante
4.31
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. The playful and poignant novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) sift… read more
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- queer
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- lgbt
"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
26. Trans Care
By: Hil Malatino
4.37
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
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27. Dysphoria Mundi
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
« Puisque mon désir de vivre en dehors des prescriptions normatives de la société binaire hétéro-pa… read more
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- transgender
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"Esas cajas que contienen mi biblioteca constituyen mi biografía. Hay muchas maneras de narrar una vida. Es posible decir, como suele hacerse, la fecha de nacimiento, la nacionalidad, el estado civil,…"-Paul B. Preciado, Dysphoria Mundi
28. Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist
By: Cecilia Gentili
4.69
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Cecilia Gentili reinvent… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
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29. Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
By: Hil Malatino
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing Some days—or we… read more
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30. Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 3)
By: J. Jack Halberstam
3.84
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However,… read more
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- school
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"Cuando la lógica que fija la forma corporal a la práctica social desaparece, cuando las narrativas de sexo, género y corporalidad se relajan y se vuelven menos fijas en relación con la verdad, la aut…"-J. Jack Halberstam, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 3)
31. The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses
By: Laura U. Marks
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links … read more
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