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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
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Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont · 436 pages
Undoing Gender
Judith Butler · 278 pages
Butler addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy. These essays deepen her treatment of issues introduced by earlier work on the relationship between power and the body, the meaning & purpose of the incest taboo, and the problems of kinship. "Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality,
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels · 56 pages
"The Communist Manifesto," penned by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is a revolutionary treatise advocating for the overthrow of capitalist systems and the establishment of a classless society. Published in 1848, its succinct yet powerful prose remains a cornerstone of socialist ideology, inspiring movements worldwide.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker · 802 pages
From Goodreads: Selected by *The New York Times Book Review* as a Notable Book of the Year The author of *The New York Times* bestseller *The Stuff* of Thought offers a controversial history of violence. Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as *New York Times* bestselling author Steven Pin
Marriage and Morals
Bertrand Russell · 254 pages
Bertrand Russell on fatherhood, Christian ethics, romantic love, feminism, sex education, love, marriage, prostitution, trial marriage, family, divorce, eugenics, population control and sexuality.
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici · 285 pages
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno · 192 pages
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Alasdair MacIntyre · 269 pages
'After Virtue' provides a re-evaluation of contemporary moral philosophy. The author elaborates his position on the connection between philosophy and history, relativism, and the relation of moral philosophy to theology.
The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt · 340 pages
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then--diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox th
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Samuel R. Delany · 203 pages
If one street in America can claim to be the most infamous, it is surely Forty-second Street. Once known for its peep shows, street corner hustlers, and movie houses, Forty-second Street has been overwhelmed by the quest for safety - from safe sex and safe neighborhoods to safe cities and safe relationships. Now defined by corporate theme stores and large, neon-lit cafes, Forty-second Street has,
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Herbert Marcuse · 282 pages
Intercourse
Andrea Dworkin · 315 pages
Dworkin argues that in a male supremacist society, sex between men and women constitutes a central part of women's subordination to men.
The Production of Space
Henri Lefebvre · 454 pages
Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields. The
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf · 129 pages
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the m
Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
Theodor W. Adorno · 256 pages
A reflection on everyday existence in the ‘sphere of consumption of late Capitalism’, this work is Adorno’s literary and philosophical masterpiece.
The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
Julie Sondra Decker · 216 pages
"In 'The invisible orientation,' Julie Sondra Decker outlines what asexuality is, counters misconceptions, provides resources, and puts asexual people's experiences in context as they move through a very sexualized world. It includes information for asexual people to help understand their orientation and what it means for their relationships, as well as tips and facts for those who want to undersa
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Roland Barthes · 237 pages
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel · 199 pages
PoMo: short for PostModern; in th earts, a movement following after and in direct reaction to Modernism; culturally, an outlook that acknowledges diverse and complex points of view. PoMoSexual: the queer erotic reality beyond the boundaries of gender, separatism, and essentialist notions of sexual orientation.
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Fredric Jameson · 438 pages
This wide-ranging work seeks to crystallize a definition of postmodernism. The author looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from high art to low; from market ideology to architecture, from painting to punk; film, from video art to literature.
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Emile Durkheim · 416 pages
Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg · 44 pages
"The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1956 is here presented in a commemorative 40th Anniversary Edition." "When the book arrived from its British printers, it was seized almost immediately by U.S. Customs, and shortly thereafter the San Francisco police arrested its publisher and editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, together with the City Lights Bookstore manager
Promiscuities: An Opinionated History of Female Desire
Naomi Wolf · 286 pages
Promiscuities follows a group of adolescent girls as they gradually become aware of themselves as sexual beings and discover what our culture tells them being female means. Drawing on her own experiences as well those of her contemporaries, Naomi Wolf reveals the secrets of our coming of age: the sexual games, forbidden crushes, losses of virginity, and rites of initiation. She also uncompromisin