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Countersexual Manifesto

Artist/Author: Paul B. Preciado | Reference: P4090 | ISBN: 978-0231175623 | Type: Publication

Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire.

SCUM Manifesto

Artist/Author: Valerie Solanas | Reference: P3746 | ISBN: 9781859845530 | Type: Publication

Considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968, Solanas’ text is reconsidered in Avital Ronell’s introduction, “Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas”.

Dust

Artist/Author: Carolyn Steedman | Reference: P3628 | ISBN: 978-0719060151 | Type: Publication

Drawing on over five years worth of her own published and unpublished writing, the author has produced a sustained argument about the way in which history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world.

Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)Ethics

Artist/Author: Margrit Shildrick | Reference: P3036 | ISBN: 978-0415146173 | Type: Publication

A feminist investigation into the marginalization of women within western discourse that denies female moral agency and embodiment.

Part of Live Art and Motherhood: A Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (P3025).

Theatre and Animals

Artist/Author: Dr Lourdes Orozco | Reference: P3020 | ISBN: 978-0230361430 | Type: Publication

This text addresses demonstrates ways in which animals transform theatre’s capacity to make meaning, and suggests they expose theatre’s negotiations with wider ethical, social and economic questions.