Females / Andrea Long Chu.
"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 An...
Uniform Title: | Verso pamphlets.
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Language: | English |
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London ; Brooklyn, NY :
Verso,
2019.
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Series: | Verso pamphlets.
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Physical Description: | 106 pages ; 18 cm. |
Format: | Book |
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 zsecond wavey 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." -- Provided by publisher. |
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Call Number: | HQ1155 .C549 2019 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781788737371 1788737377 |