Female - A Concern

"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-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, 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. 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 herself with a morbid sense of humor and a mordant kind of hope.

About the author

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.

Report

Desire deserves a description. So does the gender self-loathing of the "female" who is, it turns out, "all of us." With these theses, Andrea Long Chu inspires thrilled and dark passions because she has them and because she believes in smart and smarting arguments for them. The sentences are alive and veer toward surprise but also toward a tender wish for an easier conventional life for gender. Lauren Berlant, author of The Female Complaint

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Long Chu, Andrea Long Chu
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.10.2019
• EAN: 9781788737371
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-737-1
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 178 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, Feminismus, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Soziale und ethische Themen, Biografien: Literatur, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Society & culture: general, Frauenbewegung / Feminismus, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, Feminism & feminist theory, Society and culture: general, Feminism and feminist theory, Biography: writers