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Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as dissertation)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,644 ratings — published 1998
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,374 ratings — published 1989
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,500 ratings — published 1976
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,337 ratings — published 1952
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,110 ratings — published 1975
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,891 ratings — published 1949
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,396,261 ratings — published 1847
How to Write a Thesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dissertation)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,731 ratings — published 1977
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,827 ratings — published 1993
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,919 ratings — published 1983
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,195 ratings — published 2007
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,563 ratings — published 1945
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,493 ratings — published 1961
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,189 ratings — published 1979
Demystifying Dissertation Writing: A Streamlined Process from Choice of Topic to Final Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.07 — 277 ratings — published 2009
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as dissertation)
avg rating 3.94 — 451,430 ratings — published 1972
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as dissertation)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,137,656 ratings — published 1932
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,528,303 ratings — published 1897
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,701,730 ratings — published 1949
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,093 ratings — published 1978
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,813 ratings — published 2006
The Production of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,275 ratings — published 1974
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.09 — 234,081 ratings — published 1969
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.33 — 304,229 ratings — published 2014
The Country and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.17 — 696 ratings — published 1973
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,976,268 ratings — published 1890
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.34 — 7,199 ratings — published 1980
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dissertation)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,982,287 ratings — published 1818
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,685 ratings — published 1968
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,534,269 ratings — published 1985
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,294,798 ratings — published 1963
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.25 — 755,956 ratings — published 1938
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,088 ratings — published 1994
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.22 — 276,813 ratings — published 1929
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dissertation)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,236 ratings — published 1955
Being and Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,588 ratings — published 1927
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,579 ratings — published 1957
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,176 ratings — published 2003
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.59 — 893 ratings — published 1997
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as dissertation)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,657 ratings — published 2015
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dissertation)
avg rating 3.95 — 290,206 ratings — published 1993
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dissertation)
avg rating 3.99 — 398,164 ratings — published 1937
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dissertation)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,958,545 ratings — published 1963
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dissertation)
avg rating 3.99 — 509,622 ratings — published 1987
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,617 ratings — published 1950
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,338 ratings — published 1981
A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,498 ratings — published 2005
Destination Dissertation: A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.18 — 258 ratings — published 2007
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,931 ratings — published 1993
Epistemology of the Closet (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dissertation)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,324 ratings — published 1990
“I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.”
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
“Encounter w/ strange man June 3, approx. 2 a.m. White, 5'9", slightly scruffy, shaggy brown hair. Ripped T-shirt, jeans, no shoes. Origin and destination unknown, believed to be night wanderer.
I chewed on the end of the pen, wondering if I should include any other details. It had been too dark to tell what color his eyes were. His voice had been deep, with a rasp, almost... but I couldn't write that. If my body was found in the woods behind the house, and investigators were competent enough to do a forensic analysis of this notebook, I didn't want editorializing words complicating the narrative. Words like compelling, or god forbid, sexy.”
― Love in the Time of Serial Killers
I chewed on the end of the pen, wondering if I should include any other details. It had been too dark to tell what color his eyes were. His voice had been deep, with a rasp, almost... but I couldn't write that. If my body was found in the woods behind the house, and investigators were competent enough to do a forensic analysis of this notebook, I didn't want editorializing words complicating the narrative. Words like compelling, or god forbid, sexy.”
― Love in the Time of Serial Killers