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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

11 posts
Noise Uprising

by Michael Denning
A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music
5 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

38 posts

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

by Michele Wallace

“Courageous, outspoken, clear-eyed.”—Publishers Weekly

56 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

55 posts
The Anti-Social Family

by Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

Sensitive but uncompromising socialist-feminist critique of the nuclear family

27 posts

Straight Sex

by Lynne Segal

A manifesto of sexual liberation, from the leading feminist thinker

29 posts
Woman's Consciousness, Man's World

by Sheila Rowbotham

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

33 posts
Woman's Estate

by Juliet Mitchell

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

33 posts
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

8 posts

Women's Oppression Today

by Michèle Barrett

“This book is a school of thought.” – Frigga Haug, Das Argument

24 posts
Screened Out

by Jean Baudrillard

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

4 posts
The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations

by Max Weber

In his neglected masterpiece, Weber brings sociology to bear on civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome

1 post
Reflections on Anti-Semitism

by Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan, et al.

Dissecting how facile accusations of “anti-Semitism” are used to stifle dissent.

47 posts

The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust

by Noam Chayut

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

14 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...

4 posts
The Future as Cultural Fact

by Arjun Appadurai

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

3 posts
Lockdown High

by Annette Fuentes

25 posts

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