8 must-read history books like Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care by M.E. O'Brien

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Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

How do we take care of each other? Who raises us as children, is with us when we are ill, provides …

If you liked the history plot in Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care by M.E. O'Brien , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Wind's Twelve Quarters

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.06

Format: 277 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Wizardry, transforming its master into a cloud of fine mist...cloning, duplicating the ideal man te… read more

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"El ocio es un estado natural y bendito"."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters

"Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters

"He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters

"Of course I didn't read James and sit down and say, Now I'll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters

2. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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3. Felicity

By: Mary Oliver

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more

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4. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

Similar categories in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 book and M.E. O'Brien's Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

By: Sumaya Awad

4.36

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

This edited volume makes an impassioned and informed case for the central place of Palestine in soc… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"Interestingly, the "Zioness Movement" sprouted on the US activist scene with the explicit intention to counter feminists who were successfully denouncing Zionism. It chose the slogan, "Unabashedly pr…"

-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

"White/Western feminism's attempt at erasing the political context of Palestinian women's oppression was evident yet again around the 2017 Women's March on Washington, when liberal feminists objected …"

-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

"The Black radical tradition calls attention to the anti-Black racism essential to US society and casts doubt on the compatibility of Black freedom and the United States project. After all, the Black …"

-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

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6. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

By: Dean Spade

4.38

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

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7. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. 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

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • queer
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9. README.txt

By: Chelsea Manning

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time. While workin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"With enough grief, adrenaline, and fear we can all become amoral- even malevolent."

-Chelsea Manning, README.txt

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10. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

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  • queer
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11. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)

By: Micha Frazer-Carroll

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’  Dazed ‘E… read more

Similar categories in Micha Frazer-Carroll's Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto) book and M.E. O'Brien's Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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12. 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 M.E. O'Brien's Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

  • history
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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13. Radical Intimacy

By: Sophie K. Rosa

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more

Similar categories in Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy book and M.E. O'Brien's Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

  • relationships
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • queer
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14. Stay and Fight

By: Madeline Ffitch

3.76

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Helen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and her boyfriend’s ideas for living off the land. T… read more

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  • queer
"The ones that belong in jail are rarely the ones you see in there."

-Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight

"If you think the civil rights movement is over, you're the one who's out of touch, not me."

-Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight

"We preferred to imagine ourselves on the right side of things, including history. We preferred to stand side by side, thinking despising thoughts about people who were long dead and the mistakes that…"

-Madeline Ffitch, Stay and Fight

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15. Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

By: Robert Chapman

4.39

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the  invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo… read more

Similar categories in Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism book and M.E. O'Brien's Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution from Below

By: Peter Gelderloos

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderl… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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17. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

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  • queer
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18. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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19. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.68

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World book and M.E. O'Brien's Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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20. Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

How do we take care of each other? Who raises us as children, is with us when we are ill, provides … read more

Similar categories in M.E. O'Brien's Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care book and M.E. O'Brien's Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

  • relationships
  • history
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • family
  • sociology
  • queer
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21. Feast While You Can

By: Mikaella Clements

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Nightbitch and We Ride Upon Sticks, this strange and sexy novel of queer love in a s… read more

Similar categories in Mikaella Clements's Feast While You Can book and M.E. O'Brien's Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

  • queer

13 Best politics books like Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care by M.E. O'Brien

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

Sumaya Awad

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

Dean Spade

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

Antony Loewenstein

4.44

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21 Best audiobook books like Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

Transform Your Habits

White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Transform Your Habits

They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy

Isaac Arnsdorf

3.92

Transform Your Habits

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

4.23

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