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American Homo

by Jeffrey Escoffier

A sweeping account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society

2 posts
The Anti-Social Family

by Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

Sensitive but uncompromising socialist-feminist critique of the nuclear family

29 posts
The Attack Queers

by Richard Goldstein

Charts and critiques the rise of the gay right.
Beyond the Pale

by Vron Ware

Pioneering study of how ideas about white women have shaped the history of racism

40 posts

Burn It Down!

Edited by Breanne Fahs

The most comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos, chronicling our rage and dreams from the nineteenth century to today

17 posts
Bushwomen

by Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders assesses the central role of women—and sexual politics—in the 2004 Republican victory.
1 post
Cinderella Goes to Market

by Barbara Einhorn
Assessing the position of women before and after the fall of state socialism.
4 posts
Close to Home

by Christine Delphy
Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism
28 posts

Constituting Feminist Subjects

by Kathi Weeks

A groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subject

10 posts
De Colores Means All of Us

by Elizabeth Martínez

A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity

16 posts
The Dialectic of Sex

by Shulamith Firestone

“A landmark manifesto” — Susan Faludi, New Yorker

37 posts
Dreamers of a New Day

by Sheila Rowbotham
The acclaimed exploration of the women who revolutionized American and British life.
32 posts

Edward Carpenter

by Sheila Rowbotham
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize: The acclaimed biography of the pioneering advocate of free love, gay rights and women’s suffrage.
11 posts
The Erotic Margin

by Irvin C. Schick

Reviewing the large, disparate, and often contradictory western discourse on gender and sexuality of the Other

4 posts
False Choices

Edited by Liza Featherstone

“Intensely engrossing ... A damning portrait of both Clinton and American politics.” – Publisher's Weekly

53 posts
Family Secrets

by Annette Kuhn
“Reshapes the relations between feminism and cultural studies.”—Meaghan Morris
5 posts

Female Sexualization

by Frigga Haug
Enlightening perspectives on femininity and sexualization.
6 posts
Females

by Andrea Long Chu

An exploration of gender and desire from our most exciting new public intellectual

18 posts
Feminism

by Griselda Pollock

A radical examination of feminism’s place in our cultural memory

1 post
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

by Kumari Jayawardena
A founding text of transnational feminism
32 posts

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