Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
5 best books like Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Thomas W. Laqueur): Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
| Author | Judith Butler |
| ISBN | 0415389550 |
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that...
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679724699 |
This is a perfect example of the kind of writing characterised by Clive James as prose that ‘scorns the earth for fear of a puncture’. Foucault may be able to think – it's not easy to tell – but he certainly can't write.
Everywhere there is an apparent desire to render a simple thought impenetrable....
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
| Author | Anne Fausto-Sterling |
| ISBN | 0465077145 |
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by...
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
| Author | Kathryn Edin |
| ISBN | 0544303180 |
A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t think it exists
Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in...
| Author | Anne McClintock |
| ISBN | 0415908906 |
Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between...
