Books by Max Liboiron
“The desire we often have to fix pollution is, ‘Okay, here’s the recycling bin, and that will take our plastic away.’ Plastic never leaves. It never degrades. Every time we make plastic, we are committing to that plastic existing on our planet for the rest of time, effectively. Max’s work really shows the naivete of how we think about pollution and how the first solutions that we so often come up with, especially in Western science narratives, are always, ‘Let’s get it out of our context and put it somewhere else.’…Despite these very heavy messages, Max also manages to be very light…I try to put this book into the hands of pretty much everyone I know.” Read more...
The best books on Menstruation
Kate Clancy, Anthropologist
Interviews where books by Max Liboiron were recommended
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The Managed Body: Developing Girls and Menstrual Health in the Global South
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Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation
Thomas Buckley & Alma Gottlieb (editors) -
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Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction
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Pollution is Colonialism
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Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America
by Leslie Reagan
The best books on Menstruation, recommended by Kate Clancy
The best books on Menstruation, recommended by Kate Clancy
Menstruation is a natural process that will happen some 400 times in a woman’s life, and yet it still causes embarrassment. Biological anthropologist Kate Clancy, author of Period: The Real Story of Menstruation, recommends books that shed light not only on periods, but on how to make the world a better place.
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Pollution is Colonialism
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Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
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Dumping in Dixie
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Voices From Chernobyl
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Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic
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Plastic Ocean
by Charles Moore
The best books on Pollution, recommended by Rebecca Altman
The best books on Pollution, recommended by Rebecca Altman
‘One of the themes that I hope shines through is the significance of the act of witnessing. These books have all been influential, and as a result, all stand as testaments to the cascading influence one person can have.’