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Die Frau und der Sozialismus August Bebel · 1879 · 756p · ≈ 25h · Demanding Das Buch Die Frau und der Sozialismus ist die am meisten verbreitete und übersetzte Schrift von August Bebel. Seit mehr als hundert Jahren stehen Bebels Thesen im Mittelpunkt der Diskussionen um die Gleichberechtigung der Frau in der Gesellschaft. Shares: Social and moral questions, Women's rights, Social conditions, Women

Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill · 1863 · ★ 3.7 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging "Because Utilitarianism is a work of enduring value, it is easy to forget that Mill meant for it to be a topical and relevant contribution to the moral debates of his time. In this edition of Mill's essay, Colin Heydt situates the work in its historical context by supplementing the text of the essay with appendices containing excerpts of related works by Mill's predecessors, Mill himself, and… Shares: Utilitarianism, Liberty, Politics, Philosophy

A Vindication of Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792 · ★ 3.6 From Goodreads: Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for… Shares: Social and moral questions, Women's rights, Social conditions, Women

Anarchism and Other Essays Emma Goldman · 1910 · ★ 4.1 · 197p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence,--the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will… Shares: Social and moral questions, Politics, Social conditions, Women

Areopagitica John Milton · 1644 · ★ 3.8 · 73p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Areopagitica: A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England is John Milton's famous tract against censorship. Published in 1644, Areopagitica is named after a speech by Isocrates, a fifth century BC Athenian orator. The work is counted as one of the most influential and inspired defenses of the right to freedom of expression in history. It is also a personal issue… Shares: Liberty, Politics, Philosophy

The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill · 1869 · ★ 3.9 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Challenging On equality and women's rights. Shares: Social and moral questions, Women's rights, Women, Philosophy

Women and economics Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1898 · ★ 3.6 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Women and Economics is Gilman's most original and famous work of nonfiction. In it she examines the origins of women's subordination and its function in society. Woman, she argues, makes a living by marriage - not by the work she does - and thus man becomes her economic environment. As a consequence, her "female" attributes dominate her "human" qualities because they determine her… Shares: Social and moral questions, Women's rights, Social conditions, Women

La belle bête Marie-Claire Blais · 1959 · 125p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Peintres, musiciens, poètes, photographes, chorégraphes multiplient les regards égoïstes ou généreux sur l'univers que décrit Marie-Claire Blais, le plus souvent impuissants face à sa destruction qu'ils fuient dans l'alcool ou la drogue, parfois l'amour ou plus souvent le sexe. Le monde lui-même explose, spatialement et temporellement, puisque ce récit très contemporain se projette souvent dans… Shares: Liberté, Liberty

Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1911 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Challenging In this probing critique of "androcentric culture," pioneering feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman analyzes with wit and insight the many negative effects of male domination, not only on women in particular but on the welfare of the human race as a whole. Society's long history of male hegemony and female subservience has not enhanced the natural qualities of the human race but rather distorted… Shares: Social and moral questions, Social conditions, Women

Three guineas Virginia Woolf · 1938 · ★ 3.9 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Challenging In response to three requests for donations (to a peace society; to a woman's college rebuilding fund; to a society for obtaining employment for professional women) the author proposes that "the daughters of educated men" unite in opposition to man-made war. Shares: Women's rights, Social conditions, Women, Philosophy

All God's Children Aaron Gwyn · 2020 This sweeping novel set in the province of Texas is "a powerful depiction of the rough realities of frontier life [and] the vicious influence of racism" (The New York Times).Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award for Fiction In 1827, Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live—and love—as he… Shares: Liberté, Liberty

Hard Times Charles Dickens · 1854 · ★ 3.5 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Dickens scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideas and ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination. Shares: Utilitarianism, Social conditions

Capitalism and freedom Milton Friedman · 1962 · ★ 3.7 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war"How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for… Shares: Liberté, Liberty

Two Treatises on Government John Locke · 1689 · ★ 4.5 · 422p · ≈ 14h · Demanding The “Two Treatises of Government” is about the former false principles and foundation of sir Robert Filmer and his followers. They are detected and overthrown. The latter is an essay concerning the true original extent and end of civil government.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a… Shares: Liberty, Politics, Philosophy

The Women's Room Marilyn French · 1977 · ★ 4.0 · 492p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Relates a woman's experiences and changing attitudes from her marriage in the 1950's to her increasing independence in the 1970's. Shares: Women's rights, Social conditions, Women

Escape from Freedom Erich Fromm · 1941 · ★ 4.3 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Escape from Freedom is a book by the Frankfurt-born psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, first published in the United States by Farrar & Rinehart in 1941 with the title Escape from Freedom and a year later as The Fear of Freedom in UK by Routledge & Kegan Paul. It was translated into German and first published in 1952 under the title 'Die Angst vor der Freiheit' (The Fear of Freedom). In the book, Fromm… Shares: Liberté, Liberty

Principia ethica George Edward Moore · 1903 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging In questo libro, considerato atto di nascita dell'etica analitica, Moore intende confutare sia il "naturalismo" di Herbert Spencer e John Stuart Mill sia l'etica "metafisica" di Francis Bradley e John McTaggart denunciando la fallacia naturalistica o metafisica consistente nell'identificare "buono" con proprietà quali "risultato dell'evoluzione", "produttivo di felicità", "conforme all'essenza… Shares: Morale, Philosophy

The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan · 1963 · ★ 3.9 · 386p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Landmark, groundbreaking, classic―these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of “the problem that has no name”: the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women’s confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. Writing in a time when the average… Shares: Social and moral questions, Social conditions, Women

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