reading is resistance
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FARENHEIT 451
Ray Bradbury
The Bradbury classic about a future crisis in intellectual freedom and book burning.
1984
George Orwell · 1983
75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.
Howls Moving Castle
Gene Walden
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Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2023
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1996
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The end of Manhood
John Stoltenberg · 1994
This breakthrough book from the author of Refusing to Be a Man offers a daring alternative to the cult of masculinity. Stoltenberg explains why men so often act as if they were split in two--like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--and provides a realistic prescription for gender justice, showing exactly how men can put this wisdom to work in every aspect of their lives.
The Mermaid and the Minotaur
Dorothy Dinnerstein · 2021
One of the most significant and enduring texts in psychology and gender studies, now with a new introduction by Gloria Steinem. Since its publication in 1976, Dorothy Dinnerstein’s The Mermaid and the Minotaur has been recognized as one of the most significant contributions to modern feminist thought. The book, translated into at least seven languages, is widely used in women’s studies courses and is an influential text outside academia as well. On a level with Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, it has remained intensely relevant to a wide audience due to its pioneering message of equality. In this work, Dinnerstein challenges the ideology underlying the female monopoly of childcare and demonstrates the importance of men taking a similarly active role in parenting. A seminal feminist text, The Mermaid and the Minotaur brilliantly integrates feminist theory with Kleinian psychoanalytical theory.
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American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
David Corn · 2022
All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation)
bell hooks · 2018
