Ursula K. Le Guin 2003 256p MMPB In this collection of short stories each chapter describes a different world and the society that inhabits it; these societies share similarities with Earth’s cultures in some respects, but may be notably dissimilar in other respects. Many of the chapters are brief vignettes or ethnographic … Continue reading Changing Planes
Margaret Atwood 2001 521p 6 x 9 The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: ‘Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.’ They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister’s death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. … Continue reading The Blind Assassin
An Archealogy of Medical Perception Michel Foucault 1963 240p 5 x 8 In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors … Continue reading The Birth of the Clinic
A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Michel Foucault 1965 320p 5 x 8 Foucault’s first major book, it is an examination of the evolving meaning of madness in European culture, law, politics, philosophy and medicine from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century, and a critique of historical method … Continue reading Madness and Civilization
An Introduction: The Will to Knowledge Michel Foucault 1976 168p 5 x 8 According to Foucault, by the 19th-century, when capitalism and industrialization had allowed for the development of a dominant bourgeois social class, discourse on sex was not suppressed, but in fact proliferated. Bourgeois society ‘put into operation an entire machinery for producing true … Continue reading The History of Sexuality Vol. I
The IWW and the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture Franklin Rosemont 2003 650p 5 x 8 A massive and thorough take on the life of Joe Hill (1877-1915), one of the best-known figures in the heroic history of the Industrial Workers of the World. U.S. labor’s most world-renowned … Continue reading Joe Hill
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
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
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