{"product_id":"females-andrea-long-chu-9781804298213","title":"Females","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of today's most original thinkers on gender offers a provocative take on the current feminist movement, exploring \"desire as the force shaping our identifies, the paradoxes of liberation politics, and her own gender transition\" (\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eFemales\u003c\/i\u003e] is always smart, sometimes sincere, and unpredictable about when it will pinch your arm or clutch its nails around your heart.\" --\u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eEveryone is female, and everyone hates it.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eFemales\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing inspiration from a forgotten play by Valerie Solanas--the woman who wrote the \u003ci\u003eSCUM Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrea Long Chu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1804298212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781804298213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Andrea Long Chu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46526688952575,"sku":"9781804298213","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3908c35e-675f-4366-84b3-8e0e92689fdc.jpg?v=1737556884","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/females-andrea-long-chu-9781804298213","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}