Females

An exploration of gender and desire from our most exciting new public intellectual

"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.

Author: Andrea Long Chu
Publisher: Verso
Published: 10/29/2019
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.40w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781788737371
ISBN10: 1788737377
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Social Science | Essays
- Social Science | Gender Studies

About the Author
Andrea Long Chu is an essayist and critic. Her writing has appeared in n+1, the Boston Review, Bookforum, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the New York Times. Her work has been translated into several languages. She lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend and their cat.