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Females

By: Andrea Long Chu
Narrated 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. Gender Studies Social Sciences Witty
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An accessible, challenging, imperfect but ambitious polemic on gender, humans and power. Can’t wait for what long chu does next.

Brilliant. One of the best gender polemics.

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The extent to which this transgender person hates women is truly baffling, especially as he is now apparently a ‘she’.
I bought this book thinking I would be reading an informed account of current gender issues. How wrong I was. I could not stomach reading past about a third of the way through. Perhaps it got better but my one star rating would still apply.

Total misogyny dressed up as literature

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