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Mexican Postcards

by Carlos Monsiváis
A wide-ranging, vivacious portrait of contemporary Mexican life and culture.
1 post
Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas

Edited by Marit Melhuus and Kristi Anne Stølen
The true picture of gender relations in Latin America.
1 post
Heathcliff and the Great Hunger

by Terry Eagleton
Reading Irish culture in the light of the socio-political history that conditioned it.
1 post
The War of Gods

by Michael Löwy

How liberation theology has brought politics and religion together in Latin America.

8 posts

What Should Legal Analysis Become?

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Roberto Mangabeira Unger brings together his work in legal and social theory.

2 posts
Media Manifestos

by Régis Debray
A tool-kit with which to rethink the whole business of mediation.
3 posts
Enforcing Normalcy

by Lennard J. Davis

A challenge to expand our thinking about disability and oppression.

1 post
Out of the Garden

by Stephen Kline
“Alerts and sensitises one to things that should have been obvious but weren’t.”—Observer

The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life

by Andrew Ross

The return of Malthusian ideas about scarcity, in the name of environmentalism.

4 posts
A Millennium of Family Change

by Wally Seccombe
A powerful study of the changing structure of families.
6 posts
Return to Vietnam

by Jean-Claude Guillebaud

The photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon and the writer Jean-Claude Guillebaud belong to a generation who grew up with the word 'Vietnam' on their lips.
Writing From the Left: New Essays on Radical Culture and Politics

by Alan M. Wald

In this collection of essays, the author combines a series of assessments of "classic" and "lost" texts in the US Marxist literary tradition, and analyzes developments in Marxist scholarship by Robin Kelley, Michael Lowy, James Murphy, Paula Rabinowitz and Alexander Saxton.

Reversed Realities

by Naila Kabeer
Why development organizations are failing women in poverty.
3 posts
Interrogating Inequality

by Erik Olin Wright
Perceptive and thoughtful essays on the future of socialism and Marxism.
5 posts
Object-Choice (All you need is love...)

by Klaus Theweleit
An illuminating lexicon of love in the twentieth century.
1 post
Towards the Abolition of Whiteness

by David R. Roediger
Counting the costs of whiteness in the American past and present.
14 posts

Cinderella Goes to Market

by Barbara Einhorn
Assessing the position of women before and after the fall of state socialism.
4 posts
Inside Babylon

Edited by Clive Harris and Winston James

A lively and informed reflection on the experience of black people in Britain.

6 posts
Church Fathers, Independent Virgins

by Joyce Salisbury
Salisbury explores the relationship between Church doctrines and the position of women.
3 posts
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.

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