Females / Andrea Long Chu.
Females / Andrea Long Chu.
By
:
Chu, Andrea Long.
Publication Date
:
2019
Publication Information
:
London ; Verso,
Physical Description
:
106 p.
Subject Term
:
Feminism.
Women -- Identity.
Females.
Sex role.
Series
:
VERSO PAMPHLETS
VERSO PAMPHLETS.
Bibliography Note
:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-106).
Summary
:
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.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781788737371
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number |
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Happy Valley - Goose Bay - Melville | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 305.4 C47 |