Books like Histoire de la sexualité

Histoire de la sexualité by Michel Foucault reads as analytical, critical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Il faut défendre la société

Michel Foucault · 1997

Both explore power & discourse

80% genome match

Bodies that matter

Judith Butler · 1993

Both explore sexuality & discourse

73% genome match

The predicament of culture

James Clifford · 1988

Same nonfiction feel

67% genome match

Writing after war

John Limon · 1994

Same nonfiction feel

67% genome match

Desiring Arabs

Joseph Andoni Massad · 2006

Both explore sexuality

65% genome match

Cities of the dead

Joseph R. Roach · 1996

Both explore history

64% genome match

Simians, cyborgs, and women

Donna Jeanne Haraway · 1991

Same nonfiction feel

64% genome match

Nation and narration

Homi K. Bhabha · 1990

Same philosophy feel

63% genome match

Foucault

Gilles Deleuze · 1986

Both explore power & knowledge

78% genome match

The Languages of Sexuality

Jeffrey Weeks · 2008

Both explore sexuality & discourse

78% genome match

Epistemology of the closet

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick · 1990

Both explore sexuality

60% genome match

The terms of political discourse

William E. Connolly · 1974

Both explore power & discourse

79% genome match