{"product_id":"females-9781788737371","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Long Chu\u003c\/b\u003e is an essayist and critic. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been translated into several languages. She lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend and their cat.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604026003730,"sku":"9781788737371","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7129bbfd-81a4-43fa-ba64-018335cf59eb.jpg?v=1732252588","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/females-9781788737371","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}