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Females

By: Andrea Long Chu
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An exploration of gender and desire from our most exciting new public intellectual

"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 listeners how to write for your life, baring herself with a morbid sense of humor and a mordant kind of hope.

©2019 Andrea Long Chu (P)2019 Audible, Inc.
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Andrea Long Chu is writing this to describe what others only theorize. And that’s worth something even if the claim is obviously, intentionally too universal. It’s lacan but it’s not.

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This book is a stunning meditation on gender, sex, desire, and all the complexities of being a woman. It breaks my heart to see these 1 star reviews written by transphobes whose dissection of their gender likely begins and ends with pussy hats, equal pay, and "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus".
Andrea Long Chu is fearless in her examination of the constant and often contradictory movement between male and female that all people navigate every day, whether or not they are aware. Her theories are so profound that the very language we use to describe issues of sex and gender is exposed as myopic, outdated, and built upon millennia of subjugation and lies. The only truth that remains is one of fluidity; fluidity of so-called biological sex, of gender identity, gender expression, manhood, womanhood, maleness and femaleness. The sex/gender binary and all its arbitrary truths are revealed to rest unsteadily upon one another, a house of cards present on every narrow-minded street in realms social, political, artistic, and introspective. "Females" is a gust of wind.
Those who would see this text as misogynistic should stick to lighter reading such as JK Rowling's twitter feed, or t-shirts that bear the phrase "nevertheless she persisted".

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clear strong smart

Really smart writing and really beautifully read
Avoids self indulgence completely
easy to follow the potent arguments despite complex ideas

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not what I thought

I thought this was a book about females and the history of females. but it's a book about one person's [transwoman) perspective of what female is.

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complete waste!

I tried to find a justifiable way to give this book some kind of merit. It was a waste of time and purchase. if it was possible to give the book zero stars on all accounts, I would. I love how men think they can woman better than women just because they say so. stay in your lane! The description was so off the mark!

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