7 Top philosophy books like Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed

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Living a Feminist Life

By: Sara Ahmed

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Living a Feminist LifeSara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and t…

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1. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Toni Cade Bambara , Cherríe L. Moraga

4.52

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. … read more

Similar categories in Gloria E. Anzaldúa's This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color book and Sara Ahmed's Living a Feminist Life

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • gender
"This Bridge Called My Back intends to reflect an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color in the U.S."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I get angry with those in the women's movement and out of it who deal with class & color as if they defined politics and people."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"These women don't believe in the sanctity of the marriage bond, the inviolable privacy of the husband-wife unit. The cattiness is mixed with the information, tips. The misery is communal."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

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2. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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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
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4. The Queer Art of Failure

By: J. Jack Halberstam

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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5. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

By: bell hooks

4.18

Format: None pages,

Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

By: Patricia Hill Collins

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have deve… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. Living a Feminist Life

By: Sara Ahmed

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Living a Feminist LifeSara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and t… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

8. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more

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9. Feminist, Queer, Crip

By: None

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

In Feminist, Queer, CripAlison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies… read more

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10. 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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11. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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12. 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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13. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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14. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

By: Saidiya Hartman

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"

-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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15. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

By: Legacy Russell

3.81

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Simone de Beauvoir said “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The glitch announces: One i… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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16. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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17. 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
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • gender
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18. Gender: In World Perspective

By: Raewyn W. Connell

3.78

Format: 180 pages, None

Introducing modern gender studies, gender theories and gender politics, this text traces the histor… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • gender
"The idea of a character dichotomy between women and men has been overwhelmingly, decisively, refuted. The broad psychological similarity of men and women as groups can be regarded, on the volume of e…"

-Raewyn W. Connell, Gender: In World Perspective

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19. Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

By: Cinzia Arruzza

4.03

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these a… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"confront head on, the real source of crisis and misery, which is capitalism."

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"who will guide the process of societal transformation, in whose interest, and to what end?"

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"What we are living through is a crisis of society as a whole—and its root cause is capitalism."

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

"Liberal feminism’s ethos converges not only with corporate mores but also with supposedly “transgressive"

-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

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20. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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21. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

By: Kate Manne

4.22

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to b… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Sexism is hence to bad science as misogyny is to moralism. Sexism wears a lab coat; misogyny goes on witch hunts."

-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

"Women may not be simply human beings but positioned as human givers when it comes to the dominant men who look to them for various kinds of moral support, admiration, attention, and so on."

-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"

-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

"For one such: women positioned in relations of asymmetrical moral support with men have historically been required to show him moral respect, approval, admiration, sympathy, and concern. When she bre…"

-Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

12 best-selling politics books like Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed

Transform Your Habits

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Toni Cade Bambara , Cherríe L. Moraga

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

bell hooks

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

bell hooks

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

Patricia Hill Collins

3.91

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9 Best politics books like Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

Katherine Angel

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

Legacy Russell

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

Sophie Lewis

3.70

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Who's Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

4.02

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