 | Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $2.99 i love noam chomsky. oh yes i do. he is my all time favorite. watch in awe as he debunks great american myths with clarity and ease.
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 | Our Word is Our Weapon by Subcomandante Marcos
Buy used from: $7.90 subcomandante insurgente marcos, at the forefront of the zapatista movement in chiapas has written essays, letters, and other writings on his dream of justice and peace for the people of chiapas
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 | A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) by Howard Zinn
Buy used from: $4.00 this book changed my life. i have never read such a well-researched book on such a vitally important topic. this will shatter you
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 | Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology by Howard Zinn
Buy used from: $0.22 zinn blows my myind again by systematically breaking down traditional american ideologies and how they have played out in the country's history
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 | Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
Buy used from: $0.01 if i weren't vegan already, i would be after reading this gem. it includes important imformation on food politics, corporate greed, and cultural assimilation. yum.
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 | Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender by Riki Wilchins
Buy used from: $6.78 a perfect guide to learning all about transgender issues. wilchins is my heroine - i saw her speak and nearly cried. she's funny and brilliant. read it.
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 | Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $4.43 hooks is phenomenal. in this book she addresses the crucial intersections of racism and sexism, shaming white feminists (like me) everywhere
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 | Zami A New Spelling of My Name: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series) by Geraldine Audre Lorde
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $2.00 i love audre lorde. she writes beautifully, prophetically, of her experience at the crossroads of oppression as a young black lesbian
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 | My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely by Kate Bornstein
Buy new: $21.56 / Used from: $7.33 this is one of my favorite books. it's a simple, funny guide to understanding gender and all its beautiful transgressions. you'll learn a lot about yourself
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 | No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomi Klein
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.19 klein is fabulous...this book is too.
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 | Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--And Why We Must by Kalle Lasn
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $0.01 read adbusters? the author of this book sure has. a nice little guide to guerrilla warfare against corporate greed
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 | The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $4.45 naomi wolf...what can i say? this book is revolutionary in its understanding of societal controls over women
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 | Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size! by Marilyn Wann
Buy new: $28.15 / Used from: $10.61 destroy the sizeist inside of you - fat is not categorically unhealthy, just as thin is not necesarily healthy. in fact, it can be downright beautiful
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 | Food First by Frances Moore Lappe
Buy used from: $24.00 this book is out of print. but let me tell you, it is essential to undertanding the roots of hunger around the world. one of my very favorites.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $3.98 yeah, it's fiction. read it anyway. it illustrates with devastating clarity the impact of poverty and hunger on even the proudest of people. essential.
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 | Food Not Bombs by C. T. Butler
Buy used from: $6.20 i love food not bombs. so very much. i'm all about any group that redistributes edible food waste to the urban hungry on a daily basis, violating irrational laws along the way.
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 | "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $1.74 fabulous book. my understanding of my own white privilege has soared since reading it.
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 | Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.23 it's a little fluffy, but i promise, it's good. all about young 3rd wave feminism and how it's okay to be a girl
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