General Considerations and Firsthand Testimony Concerning Some Brief flowerings of Life in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and, Incidentally, Our Own Time Raoul Vaneigem     1986     302p     6 x 9 A historical reflection on the ways religious and economic forces have shaped Western culture. Within this broad frame, Vaneigem examines … Continue reading The Movement of the Free Spirit →

Margaret Atwood     1985     311p     MMPB Written after a visit to afghanistan in the ’80s, this is a dystopian tale about what could be the role of women in an american theocracy. $2-5 The Handmaid’s Tale in spanish   Other works involving margaret atwood, misogyny, feminsim, patriarchy, science fiction

Mujeres, cuerpo y acumulación originaria Silvia Federici   2004   367p   5 x 8 Marx dice el capitalismo entra en la historia cubierto de sangre desde el recinto de las tierras comunales, la esclavitud de los europeos al salario, y el exterminio y la esclavitud de los africanos y americanos nativos. Foucault observa el mismo period de … Continue reading Calibán y la bruja →

Pa Chin     1931     329p     5 x 7 This autobiographical novel deals with internal tensions of an upper-middle class family during the New Culture Movement of 1920s China. While many contemporary radicals pay little-to-no mind of the family as a repressive institution (perhaps because of its increasing defuse or subversive … Continue reading The Family →

Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation Silvia Federici     2004     393p     6.5 x 9.5 Marx says that Capitalism comes into the world dripping with blood from the enclosure of common lands, the enslavement of europeans to the wage and the extermination and enslavement of africans and native americans. Foucault looks … Continue reading Caliban and the Witch →

The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews Peter Duffy     2003     336p     6 x 9 Of books about resistance to the Holocaust, this is one of the better stories: more defiant, surviving jews and more dead Nazis. In … Continue reading The Bielski Brothers →

A Novel Dorothy Allison     1992     320p     6 x 8 Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family—rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other’s trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this … Continue reading Bastard Out of Carolina →

An Indian Woman’s Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend Phoolan Devi     1997     497p     6 x 9 Born in India to the lowest caste and sent to live with an arranged husband at the age of 12, Devi’s story is one of defiance and reclamation. After running away from her … Continue reading The Bandit Queen of India →

Fredy Perlman   1983   296p   5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor.  $7-15 Other works involving fredy perlman, civilization, the wild, technology, recuperation, progress, primitivism, heresy, patriarchy, first nations struggles, peasant revolts, monarchs, nature, slave … Continue reading Against His-Story, Against Leviathan →

Helen Ellerbe   1995   227p   5 x 8 How did the Church manage to stay alive and a major player on the political and imperial level for 1500 years? Ellerbe explains: by crushing or absorbing everything that stood in its way. While Dark Side of Christian History covers a lot of the same … Continue reading The Dark Side of Christian History →