Books like Bodies that matter

Bodies that matter by Judith Butler reads as academic, challenging. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Power/knowledge

Michel Foucault · 1980

Both explore discourse

69% genome match

Gender Trouble

Judith Butler · 1989

Both explore feminism & identity

83% genome match

Writing and Difference

Jacques Derrida · 1978

Same philosophy feel

63% genome match

Simians, cyborgs, and women

Donna Jeanne Haraway · 1991

Both explore feminism & gender

74% genome match

Foucault

Gilles Deleuze · 1986

Both explore discourse

70% genome match

Hegemony and socialist strategy

Ernesto Laclau · 1984

Both explore discourse

67% genome match

The philosophical discourse of modernity

Jürgen Habermas · 1987

Same philosophy feel

66% genome match

The terms of political discourse

William E. Connolly · 1974

Both explore discourse

67% genome match

Epistemology of the closet

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick · 1990

Both explore sexuality & identity

64% genome match

Pour une critique de l'économie politique du signe

Jean Baudrillard · 1972

Same philosophy feel

66% genome match

Blindness and insight

Paul de Man · 1971

Same nonfiction feel

66% genome match

Eroticism

Georges Bataille · 1957

Both explore sexuality

61% genome match