Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming Respectable (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
By: Beverley Skeggs
4.15
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Explanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism …
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1. 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
- 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
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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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- 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
3. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
4. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
By: Fannie Flagg
4.28
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-c… read more
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"Quienes más sufren son quienes menos lo dicen."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance."-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?"-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
"Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?"-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1)
By: N.K. Jemisin
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circum… 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. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
By: bell hooks
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory:… read more
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9. Learning to Labor
By: None
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hailed by the New Society as the best book on male working class youth, this classic work, first pu… read more
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10. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
11. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By: Joan Didion
3.84
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more
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- nonfiction
"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
12. Stacken
By: Annika Norlin
4.16
Format: 300 pages, ebook
Vad är det som händer nere vid vattnet? Emelie har flytt staden förr skogen och ser plötsligt en g… read more
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13. Jävla karlar
By: Andrev Walden
4.07
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
"En gång hade jag sju pappor på sju år. Det här är berättelsen om de åren. Om något låter påhittat … read more
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"Min pappa är indian och nu ska jag berätta det för blomma."-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar
14. Löpa varg
By: Kerstin Ekman
3.97
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Då kom han ut. Han gjorde det med en självklarhet som var lätt att begripa; den här världen var ju … read more
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15. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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- feminism
"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
16. The Night Raven (The Moonwind Mysteries #1)
By: Johan Rundberg
4.13
Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition
Mika is not your average orphan—and she’s about to prove it.It’s 1880, and in the frigid city of St… read more
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17. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
By: Audre Lorde
4.55
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"There are no new pains."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
18. Malma station
By: Alex Schulman
3.64
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Alex Schulmans nya roman utspelar sig på ett tåg. Fem personer är på resa genom Sverige: ett gift p… read more
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19. Teoría de la gravedad
By: Leila Guerriero
4.38
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
En esta sección de columnas, publicadas a lo largo de más de cinco años en la contraportada de El P… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sólo cuando sé que mi hija está condenada por mi, que la traje al mundo para morir y acepto eso, es cuando puedo ser su padre de manera cabal, liberándola y liberándome"-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad
"El olor del jabón y de las flores. La casa navegando como un barco hacia el verano. Y yo, en medio de todo, feliz de una manera perfecta y peligrosa. Con la única clase de felicidad que iba a salvarm…"-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad
"Cuando nacés tenés esencia. Después, eempieza a aparecer la personalidad. La personalidad trabaja en contra de la esencia. En nuestra cultura capitalista de demanda constante, rinde la personalidad. …"-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad
"Tuve un despertar súbito bajo la forma de pregunta ardiente: "¿Qué estoy haciendo acá?". Entonces él —ya saben, ni siquiera es amor— me preguntó sonriendo: "¿Te gusta?". No estábamos ahí construyendo…"-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad
20. Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)
By: Rainbow Rowell
3.91
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the v… read more
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"I’m disrespectful,"-Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)
"Come on, Snow. Let's see America."-Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)
"It might not be the circle of life,"-Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)
"I'd tie our hearts together, chamber by chamber."-Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)
21. Mjölk och människor
By: Matilda Josephson
3.79
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
Mjölk och människor är en rolig och kärleksfull serieskildring av alla de vanliga och udda människo… read more
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22. Samlade verk
By: Lydia Sandgren
4.08
Format: 689 pages, Hardcover
I Göteborg förbereds en stor retrospektiv över konstnären Gustav Beckers verk från 1980-talet och f… read more
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"You’re right,"-Lydia Sandgren, Samlade verk
"People engage in a lot of self-deception,"-Lydia Sandgren, Samlade verk
"Over the years, I’ve thought a lot about what a person has a right to tell other people. As a therapist, it’s simple: everything you’re told is confidential. Outside the clinic, however, there are un…"-Lydia Sandgren, Samlade verk
23. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
By: Sara Ahmed
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people… read more
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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
"Iris Marion Young discusses how some girls learn to “throw like girls"-Sara Ahmed, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
24. Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)
By: Luke Jennings
3.54
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopa… read more
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"Oxana had never felt the slightest need to be liked, but it gave her profound satisfaction to be desired."-Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)
"With her make-up-free complexion and nondescript brown hair gathered in a scrappy up-do, she looks like someone for whom there are more important things than being thought pretty. She might be an aca…"-Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)
25. Kjendiscrush (Kjendiskjæreste, #1)
By: Kirsti Kristoffersen
3.54
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Hva om den du er forelska i plutselig blir den mest kjente personen i hele landet? Karoline møter M… read more
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26. Blå ugglan
By: Lotta Geffenblad
4.16
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
I en liten skogsglänta bland milsvida, blånande berg bor vännerna Granlund och Stenberg. Hösten … read more
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27. Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming Respectable (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
By: Beverley Skeggs
4.15
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Explanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism … read more
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- class
- feminism
- gender
- academic
- gender studies
- nonfiction
- sociology
28. Mon corps, ce désir, cette loi: Réflexions sur la politique de la sexualité
By: Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
4.01
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Et s’il fallait aujourd’hui s’appuyer sur de tout autres principes pour penser la sexualité et la… read more
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