5 must-read feminism books like Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936-1945) by Ingrid Strobl

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Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936-1945)

By: Ingrid Strobl

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Common perception of women in wartime relegates them to the sidelines of history—working in munitio…

If you liked the feminism plot in Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936-1945) by Ingrid Strobl , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. A Room of One’s Own

By: Virginia Woolf

4.21

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October,… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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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
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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. Sophie’s World

By: Jostein Gaarder , Paulette Møller

3.96

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen c… read more

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"الذي يعرف الخير يفعل الخير"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"الأكثر ذكاء هو الذي يعرف أنه لا يعرف"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"Wisest is she who knows she does not know."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"It's not a silly question if you can't answer it."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

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4. Tales of the Greek Heroes: Retold From the Ancient Authors

By: Roger Lancelyn Green , Alan Langford

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This book presents the great stories of the heroic age - "Dionysus", "Heracles", "Theseus", "The Qu… read more

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5. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more

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6. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

By: J.K. Rowling , None , Albus Dumbledore , Newt Scamander

3.96

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them resides on almost every wizarding household in th… read more

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"Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance,"

-J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

"Jacob Kowalski: I'm sure people like you,too. Newt Scamander: No, not really. I'm annoying."

-J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

"Chizpurfle infestations explain the puzzling failure of many relatively new Muggle electrical artifacts."

-J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

"Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes"

-J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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7. Der Sandmann

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Unter Hoffmanns Werken hat Der Sandmann das weitaus grosste Interesse gefunden. Sein Grundproblem i… read more

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8. The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection

By: Judith Butler

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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9. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

By: Sigmund Freud , A.A. Brill

3.43

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" Freud examines the psychological basis for the forgetting… read more

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  • nonfiction

10. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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11. Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

By: Mona Eltahawy

3.60

Format: None pages,

A passionate manifesto decrying misogyny in the Arab world, by an Egyptian American journalist and … read more

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12. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

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13. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

By: Irene Solà

3.91

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more

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"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."

-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

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14. Canto yo y la montaña baila

By: Irene Solà

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more

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"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

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15. La mala costumbre

By: Alana S. Portero

4.55

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more

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  • feminism
"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."

-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre

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16. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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17. Poeta chileno

By: Alejandro Zambra

4.39

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

En Santiago de Chile, a principios de los años noventa del pasado siglo, dos quinceañeros, Gonzalo … read more

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"fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"Decir que eso la felicidad: nunca sentir que sería mejor estar en otra parte, nunca sentir que sería mejor ser alguien más. Otra persona. Alguien más joven, más viejo. Alguien mejor."

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser pa…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobe…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

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18. The Death of Vivek Oji

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.13

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more

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"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

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19. On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"

By: Ethel Spector Person

4.07

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Both melancholia and mourning are triggered by the same thing, that is, by loss. The distinction of… read more

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  • nonfiction
",,The danger that arises to someone when a love object is “lost"

-Ethel Spector Person, On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"

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20. Partisanas: Women in the Armed Resistance to Fascism and German Occupation (1936-1945)

By: Ingrid Strobl

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Common perception of women in wartime relegates them to the sidelines of history—working in munitio… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

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A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf

4.21

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King Kong théorie

Virginie Despentes

4.01

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Judith Butler

3.64

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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Sigmund Freud , A.A. Brill

3.43

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Gottfried Keller

3.02

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Joseph von Eichendorff , Konrad Nussbächer

3.31

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Juli Zeh

3.98

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt

4.38

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