Females

Females

<b>An exploration of gender and desire from our most exciting new public intellectual</b> <br><br><i>“Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."</i><br><br> <i>Females</i> 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.<br><br> Drawing inspiration from a forgotten play by Valerie Solanas-the woman who wrote the <i>SCUM Manifesto</i> 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.<br><br> 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.