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Anthropology & Sociology

Female Sexualization

by Frigga Haug
Enlightening perspectives on femininity and sexualization.
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Food and Love

by Jack Goody
A subversive thinker draws out the historical significance of the most intimate corners of our lives.
Fortunes of Feminism

by Nancy Fraser
Charts the history of women's liberation and calls for a revitalized feminism.
2 posts
Freud and the Non-European

by Edward W. Said
Banned by the Freud Institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture became Edward Said's final book.

The Freud Scenario

by Jean-Paul Sartre

In 1958, the US director John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a scenario for a film about Sigmund Freud. Huston wanted Sartre to concentrate...
Freudianism

by Neal Bruss and Valentin Voloshinov
Early critique of Freud from a Marxist and linguistic perspective.
3 posts
The Future as Cultural Fact

by Arjun Appadurai

Acclaimed author presents a decade's research toward creating an anthropology of the future.
Gender Equality

Edited by Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers
An urgent call for real-world solutions to gender inequality.
1 post

Genes, Cells and Brains

by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose
Dissecting the hype from the frontiers of bioethics, genomics and neuroscience
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The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust

by Noam Chayut
Haunting, beautifully written and deeply moving memoir of a young Israeli soldier
God

by Régis Debray
Traces the episodes of the genesis of God, His itinerary and the costs of His survival, with an eye on the machinery of its production.
The Gospels

In this new presentation of the Gospels, renowned thinker Terry Eagleton asks: was Jesus a revolutionary?

Green Gone Wrong

by Heather Rogers
Trenchant exposé of the myths of “green capitalism”.
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A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

by Owen Hatherley
A darkly humorous architectural guide to the decrepit new Britain that neoliberalism built.
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Heathcliff and the Great Hunger

by Terry Eagleton
Reading Irish culture in the light of the socio-political history that conditioned it.
The History of Forgetting

by Norman M. Klein
Analysis, photography and fiction combine in a bracing portrait of LA.