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Females
An exploration of gender and desire from our most exciting new public intellectual
An exploration of gender and desire from our most exciting new public intellectual
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“Everyone is female. I mean very simply that everyone wants to be a woman. What one does with this desire is what we call gender.”
So begins Andrea Long Chu’s investigation into gender and desire, females and bodies, sex and the self, radical dreams and philosophical pessimisms. Feminism, Chu argues, is an untenable claim, and “when you make an untenable claim, your desire is showing, like a shy tattoo peeking out from a sleeve.”
Drawing inspiration from Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto and her forgotten play Up Your Ass, this book in numbered theses whips through a variety of ugly objects (films, manifestos, performance art, psychoanalysis, porn, and the alt-right) to give a portrait of femaleness as a universal category of self-ablation against which all politics—even feminist politics—revolts.
A provocative and searching text from our most exciting new public intellectual. Chu wears her heart on her sleeve with wit, style, and a searching grace.
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Andrea Long Chu's Females is a thought-provoking and often controversial examination of gender, desire, and identity, drawing on a mix of personal memoir, cultural criticism, and theoretical discourse. Reviewers praise the book for its daring arguments, wit, and the way it challenges conventional narratives about gender and sexuality. Notable for its emotional depth and intellectual rigour, the book is described as both a heartfelt reflection and a provocative commentary on contemporary gender politics.
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ISBN: 9781788737371
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 October 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 9.0mm
Width: 111.0mm
Height: 178.0mm
Weight: 106g
Pages: 112
About the Author
Andrea Long Chu is a writer, critic, and graphic designer. Her writing has appeared in n+1, Artforum, Bookforum, Boston Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, 4Columns, differences, Women and Performance, TSQ, and Journal of Speculative Philosophy. She writes a weekly newsletter of television criticism called Paper View. She sits on the editorial collective of Women and Performance.
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