Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives
9 best books like Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives (Carolyn Steedman): Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, When My Brother Was an Aztec, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors, Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry, A Handbook of Disappointed Fate, Beasts in My Belfry, The Uses of Literacy, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
| Author | Angela Y. Davis |
| ISBN | 1608465640 |
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.
Reflecting on the importance of black feminism,...
"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone,...
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
| Author | Saidiya V. Hartman |
| ISBN | 0393285677 |
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer...
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
| Author | Susan Sontag |
| ISBN | 0312420137 |
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the...
| Author | Essex Hemphill |
| ISBN | 1573441015 |
I recently found out about Essex Hemphill while I was frontlisting up-coming titles. In case you also didn't know, he was a black, gay poet and activist in the 80s and 90s who died from AIDS in the mid 90s. I found out that one of his most well known works was Ceremonies and of course, it's out of print. But my...
I’m honestly a 25 year old undergrad student who has pursued a degree in social work on and off for the last 7 years and that just recently changed her major to English. With this background I certainly don't trust my ability to review this book and I'm not sure why anyone else would either, but it has given...
| Author | Gerald Durrell |
| ISBN | 0006341616 |
A hilarious record that no Durrell fan will want to miss. - Sunday Telegraph
If you looked you would think that his mind was full of beautiful and poetic thoughts...A ball of food would make its appearance at the base of the long neck and would travel upwards with all the majesty of a department...
| Author | Richard Hoggart |
| ISBN | 0765804212 |
This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media. First published in 1957, it mapped out a new methodology in cultural studies based around interdisciplinarity and a concern with how texts-in this case, mass publications-are stitched...
Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation
The Good:
--Feminist critique and (often neglected) embrace/control of high-technology is desperately needed, given the alarming centralization of technological reach and power under capitalism.
The Bad:
--The delivery needs a complete overhaul if a wider audience is desired....
