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Enforcing Normalcy

by Lennard J. Davis

A challenge to expand our thinking about disability and oppression.

1 post
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
Fanaticism

by Alberto Toscano

A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations

21 posts
Farewell to Reason

by Paul Feyerabend
“Feyerabend’s prose is sparkling and his writing is deeply learned.”—New Statesman

Female Sexualization

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

by Griselda Pollock

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

1 post
Feminist Radical Thinkers

by Michèle Barrett, Mary McIntosh, et al.
A collection of extracts from leading second-wave feminists, including Michèle Barrett, Mary McIntosh, Lynne Segal, Sheila Rowbotham and Juliet Mitchell
7 posts
Food and Love

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

Fortunes of Feminism

by Nancy Fraser
Charts the history of women's liberation and calls for a revitalized feminism.
50 posts
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...

3 posts
Freudianism

by Valentin Voloshinov
Early critique of Freud from a Marxist and linguistic perspective.
5 posts
Full Surrogacy Now

by Sophie Lewis

Where pregnancy is concerned, let every pregnancy be for everyone. Let us overthrow, in short, the “family”

10 posts

The Future as Cultural Fact

by Arjun Appadurai

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

4 posts
Gender Equality

Edited by Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers
An urgent call for real-world solutions to gender inequality.
11 posts
The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust

by Noam Chayut

Haunting, beautifully written and deeply moving memoir of a young Israeli soldier

13 posts
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.
2 posts

Good Neighbors

by Sylvie Tissot

What we talk about when we talk about gentrification

18 posts
The Gospels

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

1 post
Green Gone Wrong

by Heather Rogers

Trenchant exposé of the myths of “green capitalism”.

12 posts
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.
35 posts

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