Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State
By: Judith R. Walkowitz
3.90
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
The state regulation of prostitution, as established under the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 18…
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4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
2. Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
By: Agatha Christie
4.01
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young an… read more
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- british literature
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"Never give in! That’s my motto. Don’t think of trouble and trouble won’t come!"-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
3. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
4. The Moonstone
By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more
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5. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
By: Susan Lee Johnson
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into somethin… read more
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6. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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7. Uprooted
By: Naomi Novik
4.57
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
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8. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
By: Timothy J. Gilfoyle
3.53
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the New York State Histo… read more
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9. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
By: Robin McKinley
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A strange imprisonment... Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her t… read more
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10. Passing
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3.93
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"-Nella Larsen, Passing
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"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."-Nella Larsen, Passing
11. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more
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"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
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"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
12. Spinning Silver
By: Naomi Novik
4.19
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State
By: Judith R. Walkowitz
3.90
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
The state regulation of prostitution, as established under the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 18… read more
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- feminism
- academic
- victorian
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- gender studies
