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by Andrea Long Chu
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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrea Long ChuPublish date:03/04/25Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781804298213ISBN-10:1804298212UPC:9781804298213Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Human Sexuality (see also PsychologyBook Topic:Human Sexuality)Size:6.90 x 4.30 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCC3JN0517
A groundbreaking exploration of gender and desire from the Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and critic

​​With a New Afterword by the Author

ABA IndieBound Bestseller

"Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."

So begins 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--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, and even feminists like herself. Each step of the way she defends the indefensible claim that femaleness is less a biological state of women and more a fatal existential condition that afflicts the entire human race--men, women, and everyone else. In a new afterword, Chu reflects on the book's reception, the growing anti-trans movement in America, and the continuing need for a radical theory of desire.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781804298213ISBN-10:1804298212UPC:9781804298213Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Human Sexuality (see also PsychologyBook Topic:Human Sexuality)Size:6.90 x 4.30 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCC3JN0517
Andrea Long Chu is an essayist and critic at New York magazine. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2023, and Females was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction. Her writing has also appeared in n+1, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Bookforum, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She is the author of Authority: Essays.
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