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Invisibility Blues

by Michele Wallace

Classic work of black feminism

45 posts
Building the Commune

by George Ciccariello-Maher

Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy

25 posts
Close to Home

by Christine Delphy
Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism
29 posts
In Defense of Housing

by David Madden and Peter Marcuse

In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?

18 posts

SCUM Manifesto

by Valerie Solanas

Avital Ronell reconsiders Solanas in light of her social milieu.

14 posts
Annihilation of Caste

by B.R. Ambedkar

The classic analysis of the caste system with an extensive introduction by Arundhati Roy

15 posts
Traces of History

by Patrick Wolfe

How race rose and spread across the globe

26 posts
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy

by Gabriella Coleman

“Essential reading.” – Glenn Greenwald

19 posts

Understanding Class

by Erik Olin Wright
Leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalism
7 posts
The Man Who Closed the Asylums

by John Foot

“A portrait of imperfect people who had the passion and pragmatism to put an end to a brutal and broken system.” – Financial Times

10 posts
Noise Uprising

by Michael Denning
A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music
6 posts
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

by R. H. Tawney
A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism
5 posts

Beyond the Pale

by Vron Ware

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

40 posts
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

by Michele Wallace
“Courageous, outspoken, clear-eyed.”—Publishers Weekly
60 posts
Good Neighbors

by Sylvie Tissot

What we talk about when we talk about gentrification

19 posts
Separate and Dominate

by Christine Delphy

An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures

60 posts

The Anti-Social Family

by Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

Sensitive but uncompromising socialist-feminist critique of the nuclear family

29 posts
Straight Sex

by Lynne Segal

A manifesto of sexual liberation, from the leading feminist thinker

32 posts
Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World

by Sheila Rowbotham

Groundbreaking examination of the birth, development and impact of Feminist consciousness

35 posts
Woman’s Estate

by Juliet Mitchell

Classic statement of socialist feminism, from one of its leading thinkers

37 posts

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