11 best-selling feminism books like Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Paradigm) by Adele Clarke

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Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Paradigm)

By: Adele Clarke

4.20

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

As the planet’s human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, econ…

If you liked the feminism plot in Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Paradigm) by Adele Clarke , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Gender Failure

By: Rae Spoon , Ivan E. Coyote

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"Being a girl was something that never really happened for me."—Rae Spoon Ivan E. Coyote and Rae… read more

Similar categories in Rae Spoon's Gender Failure book and Adele Clarke's Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Paradigm)

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"If being a man is something that required a person to tick off a bunch of boxes, not many people would make it through."

-Rae Spoon, Gender Failure

"The thing about failing as a girl is that I did want to succeed. I wanted to be liked and accepted like anyone, but it wasn't like learning how to play the guitar or to roller-blade. It was something…"

-Rae Spoon, Gender Failure

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2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

Similar categories in David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments book and Adele Clarke's Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Paradigm)

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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3. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

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  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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4. Notes of a Crocodile

By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie

3.83

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more

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"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

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5. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more

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  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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6. The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1) book and Adele Clarke's Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Paradigm)

"Always afraid, never a coward"

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"On a whim, I went with him. I could always stab him if he tried anything, after all."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"I believe in a messy, imperfect world where we just, collectively or individually, figure things out."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"I've got a long history of scraping together little moments of peace in the midst of hardship, and cooking is a great way to do that."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

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7. Tenth of December

By: George Saunders

3.98

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an u… read more

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"Ted, I swear to God, quothe he."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"Every step was a victory. He had to remember that."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

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8. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

Similar categories in David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years book and Adele Clarke's Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Paradigm)

  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
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9. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts book and Adele Clarke's Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Paradigm)

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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10. I Love Dick

By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more

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  • feminism

11. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Companion Species Manifestois about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of d… read more

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12. 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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13. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

By: Alice Munro

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Lovesh… read more

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14. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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15. Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

By: Tove Ditlevsen

4.37

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Called a masterpiece by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Every person has their own truth just as every child has their own childhood."

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

"My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me again…"

-Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)

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16. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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17. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Adele Clarke's Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Paradigm)

  • nonfiction
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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18. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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19. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's The Maniac book and Adele Clarke's Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Paradigm)

  • philosophy
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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20. Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers r… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Sick and weak are not useful entries in the dictionary of self-understanding."

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

"Given their automatic tuning out, ADD children forever find themselves being told to “pay attention"

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

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21. Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

By: James Davies

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. Th… read more

Similar categories in James Davies's Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis book and Adele Clarke's Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Paradigm)

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"I have asked them to pay attention to what they have just said. In particular to their use of the phrase “mental illness"

-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

"If our basic needs were neglected: our need for safety, economic security, loving connection, autonomy, self-realization and meaningful work, our need to feel equal and respected, then poor emotional…"

-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

"What we need is a profound rethinking of the nature of suffering itself, and what it is trying to highlight and ask us to change. We need to repoliticise emotional discontent in the minds of teachers…"

-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

"Tim Kasser: ‘The heyday of humanistic psychology was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Keynes dominated. But since the rise of neo-liberalism from the 1980s, we’ve seen an influx of cognitive behavioural …"

-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

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22. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)

By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs

4.47

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subve… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Could we communicate more like manatees, who stay in communication in all kinds of emergencies, place their bodies in a way that protects children, touch each other to remember and know?"

-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)

"I respect you as so much bigger than my own understanding. And me too. I don't have to be available to be eligible for breath. I don't have to be measurable in a market of memes. I don't have to be v…"

-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)

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23. Real Life

By: Brandon Taylor

3.80

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, f… read more

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"Miller: "You are so determined to be unknowable." Wallace: "We are always unknowable."

-Brandon Taylor, Real Life

"Memory sifts. Memory lifts. Memory makes due with what it is given. Memory is not about facts. Memory is an inconsistent measurement of the pain in one’s life."

-Brandon Taylor, Real Life

"The truly awful thing about beauty is that it reminds us of our limits. Beauty is a kind of unrelenting cruelty. It takes truth, hones it to a terrifying keenness, and uses it to slice us to the bone."

-Brandon Taylor, Real Life

"It's... mostly fine," Wallace admits, getting too close to the bone. He doesn't want to go back over the thing about how grief can feel diffuse and dense all at once, like a flock of birds in the sky…"

-Brandon Taylor, Real Life

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24. Abolition. Feminism. Now.

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.31

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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25. Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future

By: Joel Wainwright

3.67

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse Despite the science and t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • climate change
  • nonfiction
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26. A Country of Ghosts

By: Margaret Killjoy

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But w… read more

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"I’ll never figure out if I’m supposed to let worry get the best of me,"

-Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts

"All people are free. When we speak of freedom, we acknowledge that freedom is a relationship between the people of the society. This relationship of freedom is created by the means of mutual respect,…"

-Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts

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27. Animali si diventa. Femminismi e liberazione animale

By: Federica Timeto

3.83

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

Esseri umani e animali sono stati collocati ai due lati di un confine invalicabile, che la scienza … read more

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"Il rifiuto di mangiare carne non è solo un rifiuto del patriarcato, ma un fallimento e un’interruzione dell’eteronormatività fondata sulla trasmissione identitaria. Dichiarare di essere vegan funzion…"

-Federica Timeto, Animali si diventa. Femminismi e liberazione animale

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28. Escape from Incel Island

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.89

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

To cope with rising misogynist violence, the US government offered people a golden opportunity: any… read more

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29. Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism

By: Kate Soper

3.61

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life The… read more

Similar categories in Kate Soper's Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism book and Adele Clarke's Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Paradigm)

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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30. On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change

By: Jade S. Sasser

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 2… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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31. Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Paradigm)

By: Adele Clarke

4.20

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

As the planet’s human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, econ… read more

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  • polyamory
  • feminism
  • research
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • climate change
  • sociology
  • anthropology

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David Foster Wallace

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bell hooks

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Nikesh Shukla

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