Autotheory As Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism by Lauren Fournier
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Category: Theory & Essays
Autotheory--the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography--as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism. Autotheory--the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography--as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and ac ...Show more
Averno by Louise Gluck
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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abdu ...Show more
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
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Category: Theory & Essays
From the winner of the Windham Campbell Prize Winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Longlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards for Non-Fict ...Show more
Beneath the Skin - Great Writers on the Body by Ned Beauman; Naomi Alderman; Thomas Lynch (Introduction by); Philip Kerr; A. L. Kennedy; Chibundu Onuzo
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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Wellcome Collection
Fifteen talented writers each explore a different body part in this funny and moving collection.
Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults by Laurie Penny
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Category: Theory & Essays
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018'A blast, in all senses' Financial TimesIncludes a new preface and extra essaysSmart and provocative, this collection of Laurie Penny's writing establishes her as one of the most urgent and vibrant feminist voices of our time. From the shock of Donald Trump's election ...Show more
Black Is the Body - Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard
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Category: Theory & Essays
A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021 "Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my lif ...Show more
Black Radical Tradition - A Reader by Erin Grey (Editor); Asad Haider (Editor); Ben Mabie (Editor)
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Category: Theory & Essays
With activists taking to the streets with renewed vigour to fight racism, inequality, and capitalism, this collection of classic writings and primary documents restores the historical grounding and revolutionary genealogy of today's protest movements. Including key writings of thinkers and figures like ...Show more
Buried Not Dead by Fiona McGregor
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Category: Theory & Essays
Novelist Fiona McGregor's new book, Buried Not Dead, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs, some of them famous, like Marina Abramović and Mike Parr, while others, ...Show more
Burn It Down! - Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution by Breanne Fahs
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Category: Theory & Essays
In this landmark collection spanning three centuries and four waves of feminist activism and writing, Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. The manifesto raging and wanting, quarreling and provocative has always been central to feminism, and it's the angry, ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Theory & Essays
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to Burning Questions such as; Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How c ...Show more
Capitalism - The Story Behind the Word by Michael Sonenscher
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Category: Theory & Essays
What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what's at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the history behind the concept and pieces together the range of subjects bound up with the word. Sonenscher show ...Show more