 | The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault
Buy new: $9.80 / Used from: $4.79 Perhaps not as sexy as it sounds, but you need to read it anyway.
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 | Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Robert J. C. Young
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $4.93 They weren't lying about the very short thing - a great way to become familiar with some very complex and important theories.
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 | Orientalism by Edward W. Said
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.95 An absolute classic and easy to read to boot.
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 | The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private by Susan Bordo
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.96 Very cultural studies, but it is a fun light right.
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 | We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks
Buy new: $19.10 / Used from: $10.99 A great introduction to hooks, though a little loopy at times. I may replace this selection with Outlaw Culture as soon as I read it...hmmm
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 | The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation by Hayden White
Buy new: $19.75 / Used from: $9.20 Literary theory that may actually be useful for historians - who would have thunk it. Beware, some (history) professors are a little wary of the implications of White's work.
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 | Search for a Method by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: $10.28 / Used from: $6.00 Not familiar with Marxism or Existentialism? Kill two birds with one stone.
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 | Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Catherine Belsey
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $6.50 Get a heads up on some of the most important debates going on in the humanities camp. The great thing about this book - other than the fact that it is easy to understand, is that the author doesn't take herself too seriously - a rare find amongst the poststructuralist set.
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 | Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott
Buy new: $17.33 / Used from: $11.00 Some hate her, and some think she is god. You will have to read her at some time in your academic career, and this book is a great way to make up your own mind.
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 | Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.70 Not as S&M as it sounds (boo!), but perhaps one of Foucault's most coherently argued works. And besides, I just like Foucault.
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