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Anthropology & Sociology

Restless Cities

Edited by Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart
Leading writers reimagine the city as a site of ceaseless change and motion.
14 posts
The Return of the Public

by Dan Hind

Winner 2011 Best Book of Ideas at the Bristol Festival of Ideas

13 posts
Reversed Realities

by Naila Kabeer
Why development organizations are failing women in poverty.
5 posts
Rumba on the River

by Gary Stewart
Rumba on the River presents a snapshot of an era when the currents of tradition and modernization collided along the banks of the Congo.
3 posts

School Wars

by Melissa Benn
The story of the struggle for Britain’s schools, and a passionate call for education as a public good.
18 posts
Screened Out

by Jean Baudrillard

“The most influential prophet of the media since Marshall McLuhan.”–i-D Magazine

4 posts
SCUM Manifesto

by Valerie Solanas

Avital Ronell reconsiders Solanas in light of her social milieu.

14 posts
Secular Devotion

by Timothy Brennan
Illuminating exploration of Afro-Latin music’s challenge to Western cultural imperialism.
3 posts

Separate and Dominate

by Christine Delphy

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

59 posts
A Seventh Man

by John Berger
New edition of this seminal exploration of migrant workers.
23 posts
Sex-pol

by Wilhelm Reich
The role of sexual repression in class domination, and the struggle for sexual liberation.
11 posts
Sexuality and Class Struggle

by Reimut Reiche

This book which combines the methods and results of both Freud and Marx is by one of the leaders of the West German student left during its most...

3 posts

Social Class in Europe

by Cédric Hugrée, Etienne Pénissat, et al.

Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe
Social Division

by Alan Carling

Social divisions are systematic social inequalities which are frequently regarded as unjust, and are fateful in the lives of individuals.
The Social Origins of Private Life

by Stephanie Coontz

A highly original account of the evolution of the family unit.

6 posts
Social Theory

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Volume 2 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.
2 posts

Storytelling

by Christian Salmon

The narrative spell cast over politics and society

7 posts
Straight Sex

by Lynne Segal

A manifesto of sexual liberation, from the leading feminist thinker

31 posts
Strange Weather

by Andrew Ross
“A marvellous, sceptical history of the culture of prediction.”—Meaghan Morris
Suffering as Identity

by Esther Benbassa
An analysis of the discourse of victimhood in Judaism.
4 posts