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A new edition of an influential biography of the early Victorian socialist feminist writer Flora Tristan.Active in the 1830s and 1840s, Flora Trist...

Contrasting the frontiers of this haunted geography with the severity of her life at home, this extraordinary rite of passage includes a spectacula...

The development of romantic love, the evolution of national and regional cuisines, the globalization of Chinese food, the histories of various tabo...

A material analysis of the sign which deepens Marx's critique of political economy for spectacular times.What if the problems of modern society don...

What is the “populist moment” and what does it mean for the left?We are currently witnessing in Western Europe a “populist moment” that signals the...

A new, ecological approach to images by a renowned philosopherWhen Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an “ecology of images,” she meant it as ...

In this innovative work, Guglielmo Carchedi argues that only an analysis centered on class as the basic unit of social life, with production and di...

A piercing denunciation of Islamophobia in France, in the tradition of Emile ZolaAt the beginning of the twenty-first century, leading intellectual...

Exploring the role of the incest prohibition in human societiesWhat is incest? Is it universally prohibited? Does this prohibition concern only "bi...

For forty-five years, the expatriate Juan Goytisolo has been widely acknowledged as both Spain’s greatest living writer and its most scabrous criti...

Nancy Fraser’s powerful new book documents the “movements of feminism” and the shifts in the feminist imaginary since the 1970s.Fraser follows the ...

A sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power—and contributed to the worsening climate crisis The mor...

A sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power—and contributed to the worsening climate crisis The mor...

Tracking the development of Foucault's key conceptsLemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power an...

The rebellious life of a novelist, screenwriter and revolutionary activistBorn in Poona, India, Farrukh Dhondy came to England in 1964 and immersed...

Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (1925–61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experience...

An indispensable guide to the feminist case for prison abolitionHow does the criminal justice system affect women’s lives? Do prisons keep women sa...

The definitive history of how neoliberalism came to shape the contemporary monetary orderBoth a rigorous intellectual history of neoliberalism and ...

Is there such a thing as “the Israel lobby,” and how powerful is it really? Friends of Israel provides a forensically researched account of the ac...

In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A’ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A’ida’s letters...

In March 1987 a radical coalition of queer activists converged on Wall Street—their target, ‘Business, Big Business, Business as Usual!!!’ It was A...

In March 1987 a radical coalition of queer activists converged on Wall Street ... their target, ‘Business, Big Business, Business as Usual!!!’ It w...