Books published by Verso Books

A groundbreaking attempt to theorise the feminist subjectOne of the most important tasks for contemporary feminist theory is to develop a concept of the subject able to meet the challenges facing feminist politics. Although theorists in the 1980s raised the problem of feminist subjectivity, Kathi Weeks contends that the limited nature of that discussion now blocks the further development of feminist theory. While the problems of an already constituted essentialist subject have become patent, what remains as an ongoing project, Weeks contends, is a theory of the constitution of subjects capable of explaining the processes of social construction. This book presents one such account. Drawing on a number of different theoretical frameworks, including feminist standpoint theory, socialist feminism, and poststructuralist thought, as well as theories of peformativity and self-valorization, the author proposes a nonessential feminist subjecta theory of constituting subjects.

A powerful document of the day-to-day realities of Black women in BritainThe Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain's history from which black women have long been excluded. It reclaims and records black women's place in that history, documenting their day-to-day struggles, their experiences of education, work and health care, and the personal and political struggles they have waged to preserve a sense of identity and community. First published in 1985 and winner of the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize that year, The Heart of the Race is a testimony to the collective experience of black women in Britain, and their relationship to the British state throughout its long history of slavery, empire and colonialism.This new edition includes a foreword by Lola Okolosie and an interview with the authors, chaired by Heidi Safia Mirza, focusing on the impact of their book since publication and its continuing relevance today

Hussein argues his key text is not Orientalism but Beginnings, and the Palestinian experience informs all his texts, not simply those which deal explicitly with the catastrophe of 1948.

Taking cues from art and popular culture to analyse bestiality in all its guises, physical, psychological and legal, here is the first history of the last taboo

A new beginning for Marxism might just be on the horizon of a landscape despoiled by Soviet Communism and a now wobbling world capitalism. In this text Berman brings together various discussions of work on Marx and Marxism.

Offers transcripts of interviews with French intellectual Jean Baudrillard, covering topics such as: Fukuyama; 1989 and the collapse of Communism; Bosnia; the Gulf War; Rwanda; the New World Order; consumer society and social exclusion; liberation; and nihilism.

A collection of essays which offer a testimony of the dialogue between the present and the past.