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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...

5 posts
Women’s Work, Men’s Property

Edited by Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson

Exploring the sociohistorical roots of gender inequality.

20 posts
Farewell to Reason

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

by Kim Moody
Exposing the roots of modern “business unionism” and the causes of its decline.
10 posts

The Social Origins of Private Life

by Stephanie Coontz

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

8 posts
Agency of Fear

by Edward Jay Epstein
A sharp exposé of the true motivations behind the war on drugs.
Memory and Modernity

by William Rowe and Vivian Schelling
“A new, needed and definite work.”—New Statesman and Society
Strange Weather

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

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.
Church Fathers, Independent Virgins

by Joyce Salisbury
Salisbury explores the relationship between Church doctrines and the position of women.
3 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
Cinderella Goes to Market

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

Towards the Abolition of Whiteness

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

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

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