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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault

352 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of ʻAʼisha bint Abi Bakr by Denise A. Spellberg

Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of ʻAʼisha bint Abi Bakr

Denise A. Spellberg

243 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Off the Straight Path: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo by Elyse Semerdjian

Off the Straight Path: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo

Elyse Semerdjian

247 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction gender psychology science sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult by Miriam Williams

Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult

Miriam Williams

324 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction memoir religion reflective medium-paced
The Colonial Harem by Barbara Harlow, Wlad Godzich, Malek Alloula

The Colonial Harem

Barbara Harlow, Wlad Godzich, Malek Alloula

160 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction feminism gender history informative reflective medium-paced
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Leila Ahmed

304 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction feminism history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel by Rhoda Kanaaneh

Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel

Rhoda Kanaaneh

300 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction gender informative reflective slow-paced
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer, Susan Dworkin

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

Edith Hahn Beer, Susan Dworkin

352 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction biography history dark emotional sad medium-paced
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity by Afsaneh Najmabadi

Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity

Afsaneh Najmabadi

377 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction feminism gender history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis, Jean-Claude Carrière, Daniel Vigne

The Return of Martin Guerre

Natalie Zemon Davis, Jean-Claude Carrière, Daniel Vigne

176 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced