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An edition of Females (2019)

Females

A Concern

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Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to be a woman. What one does with this desire is what we call gender." So begins Andrea Long Chu's investigation into gender and desire, females and bodies, radical dreams and philosophical pessimism, and feminism as a form of political suicide. Feminism, Chu argues, is an untenable claim, and "when you make an untenable claim, your desire is showing, like a shy tattoo peeking out from a sleeve." Written in a series of linked theses, this is a provocative and searching text from our most exciting new public intellectual, a self described "sad trans girl in Brooklyn." Chu wears her heart on her sleeve with wit, style, and a manic searching grace.

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Verso
Language
English
Pages
112

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Subjects

Sociology, Feminism, Women, Identity, Females, Sex role, Femininity

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First Sentence

"Everyone is female."

Table of Contents

Females
Bongi. I’m so female I’m subversive.
Bongi. Eventually the expression “female of the species” ’ll be a redundancy.
Russell. One of my more interesting points is I’m very bitter.
Bongi. You’re wrong—I’m not a watcher; I’m a woman of action.
Ginger. She has penis envy. She should see an analyst.
Bongi. Hell’o, Gorgeous.
Miss Collins. She is, without a doubt, the most garish, tasteless faggot I’ve ever run across.
Russell. You’re not too bad-looking, or, at least, you wouldn’t be if you’d put a skirt on and look like a woman.
Ginger. Everybody knows that men have much more respect for women who’re good at lapping up shit.
Russell. You don’t know what a female is, you desexed monstrosity.
Miss Collins. I face reality, and our reality is that we’re men.
Bongi. Why’re girls called chicks? After all, men have the peckers.
Bongi. Come and get it.
Bongi. I star in movies for stag parties. But I’ve got professional integrity—I only work for the top directors.
Alvin. I guess it’s just the romantic in me.
Bongi. Downright perverse.
Arthur. Fuck is in the air; it’s overpowering; it carries you away with it, sucks you right up.
Bongi. Let the guys ram each other in the ass and leave the women alone.
Ginger. Let your soul sway gently in the void.
Arthur. I am terrible, aren’t I?
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London, UK
Series
Verso Pamphlets
Copyright Date
2019

Classifications

Library of Congress
HQ1155.C549 2019, HQ1155 .C549 2019

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Format
paperback
Number of pages
112

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28284797M
ISBN 10
1788737377
ISBN 13
9781788737371
LCCN
2019017195
OCLC/WorldCat
1098229567

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