13 Best queer books like Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable by Eric A. Stanley

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Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

By: Eric A. Stanley

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past—marriage equality, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell,…

If you liked the queer plot in Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable by Eric A. Stanley , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's The Sluts book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • queer
  • lgbt

2. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more

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3. 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

Similar categories in Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

4. 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

Similar categories in Paul B. Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

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5. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

By: Rafia Zakaria

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided… read more

Similar categories in Rafia Zakaria's Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • gender
"Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America."

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

"White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world…"

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

"But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriar…"

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

"Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into mean…"

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

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6. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

Similar categories in Adania Shibli's Minor Detail book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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7. Lote

By: Shola von Reinhold

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Solitary Mathilda has long harbored a conflicted enchantment bordering on rapture with the "Bright … read more

Similar categories in Shola von Reinhold's Lote book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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8. 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

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • 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

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9. Histories of the Transgender Child

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.40

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front… read more

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's Histories of the Transgender Child book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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10. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

By: Sophie Lewis

3.70

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Lewis's Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • theory
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • queer
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11. Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

By: Nick Walker

4.37

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on h… read more

Similar categories in Nick Walker's Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"If you see anyone trying to narrow the definition of neuroqueer and trying to police who gets to use the tern, feel free to tell them that I said to stop acting like a fucking cop. The world needs mo…"

-Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

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12. Darryl

By: Jackie Ess

4.03

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Darryl Cook is a man who seems to have everything: a quiet home in Western Oregon, a beautiful wife… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Ess's Darryl book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"I'm not gay, let alone trans. That's like next level gay."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Maybe every guy like me just needs a best friend with a big cock."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Hannibal Lecter is fucking my wife. Ok. I hope he doesn’t eat her."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"You live vicariously through celebrities, I live vicariously through the guys who fuck my wife. But sure, ok, I'm the weird one."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

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13. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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14. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

By: C. Riley Snorton

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans em… read more

Similar categories in C. Riley Snorton's Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • race
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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15. No More Police: A Case for Abolition

By: Mariame Kaba

4.59

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An instant national best seller A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizer… read more

Similar categories in Mariame Kaba's No More Police: A Case for Abolition book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • race
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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16. 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

Similar categories in Hil Malatino's Trans Care book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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17. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

4.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more

Similar categories in Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • race
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

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18. 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

Similar categories in Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and the Logic of Capitalism by Justin Joque

19. Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and the Logic of Capitalism

By: Justin Joque

3.82

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The rise of AI and algorithms refiguring contemporary capitalism Our finances, politics, media, op… read more

Similar categories in Justin Joque's Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and the Logic of Capitalism book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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20. Against Innocence

By: Jackie Wang

4.70

Format: 44 pages, None

"The political response to the murder of Troy Davis does not challenge the assumption that communit… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Wang's Against Innocence book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • theory
  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
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21. Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

By: Eric A. Stanley

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past—marriage equality, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell,… read more

Similar categories in Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable book and Eric A. Stanley's Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

  • race
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • politics
  • gender
  • queer studies
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • queer

11 must-read politics books like Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable by Eric A. Stanley

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Rafia Zakaria

4.32

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Jules Gill-Peterson

4.40

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Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

Sophie Lewis

3.70

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4.47

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Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

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Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

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Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

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