Chu Andrea Long - Females - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: One of today's most original thinkers on gender offers a provocative take on the current feminist movement exploring desire as the force shaping our identifies the paradoxes of liberation politics and her own gender transition (Bookforum). Females is always smart sometimes sincere and unpredictable about when it will pinch your arm or clutch its nails around your heart. Vice Everyone is female and everyone hates it. Females is Andrea Long Chu's genre - defying investigation into sex and lies desperate artists and reckless politics the smothering embrace of gender and the punishing force of desire. Drawing inspiration from a forgotten play by Valerie Solanas the woman who wrote the SCUM Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol Chu aims her searing wit and surgical intuition at targets ranging from performance art to psychoanalysis incels to porn. She even has a few barbs reserved for feminists like herself. Each step of the way she defends the indefensible claim that femaleness is less a biological state and more a fatal existential condition that afflicts the entire human race men women and everyone else. Or maybe she's just projecting. A thrilling new voice who has been credited with launching the second wave of trans studies Chu shows readers how to write for your life baring her innermost self with a morbid sense of humor and a mordant kind of hope.
Title: Females
Author(s): Chu Andrea Long
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781788737371
Pages: 112 Pages
Publication Date: 10/29/2019
Category: Feminism & Feminist Theory