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 sex and the self radical dreams and philosophical pessimisms.
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.?Drawing inspiration from Valerie
Solanas's SCUM Manifesto and her forgotten play Up Your Ass this book in numbered theses whips
through a variety of ugly objects (films manifestos performance art psychoanalysis porn
and the alt-right) to give a portrait of femaleness as a universal category of self-ablation
against which all politics?even feminist politics?revolts.A provocative and searching text from
our most exciting new public intellectual. Chu wears her heart on her sleeve with wit style
and a searching grace.
