Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

Females by Andrea Long Chu

10 reviews

zombiezami's review

Whelp, I don't know what that was, but I do know it wasn't for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Sexual content, Self harm, Medical content, Cursing, Misogyny, Sexism, Dysphoria, and Transphobia

Moderate: Sexual violence, Death, Violence, Deadnaming, Sexual assault, Excrement, Rape, Racism, and Medical trauma

Minor: Slavery, Pregnancy, Mass/school shootings, and Gun violence

mlovesbooks's review

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

I'm a fan of Andrea Long Chu's essays since I read her reviews on Hanya Yanagihara and Ottesa Moshfegh's novels, and I have been waiting to get my hands on Females for too long.

Needless to say, it didn't disappoint as an exploration of gender, sexuality, and everything in between.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, Murder, Sexual violence, and Gun violence

erinnuttle's review

challenging funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia and Misogyny

bookfreaklol's review

challenging funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Transphobia, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

gagne's review

challenging tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Torture, Sexual violence, Violence, Gun violence, Transphobia, and Excrement

sissy porn, TERF terminology, alt-right terminology

jusdani's review

challenging reflective fast-paced

3.5

this is such a big brain rot but chu’s points scratch a particular part of my deteriorating female brain.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia and Sexual content

vesper_reads's review against another edition

time/interest

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

demo's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Sexual content

Moderate: Transphobia

pixiefrida's review against another edition

challenging funny tense fast-paced

3.75

i love andrea chu's writing voice and her outrageous claims but i feel very ambivalently about this gender theory pamphlet. she contradicts herself on many points about what gender is (whether existential or ontological) and she excludes/harms trans men in her views of femaleness. however she posits that gender is a submissive act (an absolute, sweeping claim imo) and that even desire, lack of consent and making room for another's ego is "female." this is the first piece of gender theory i've ever read and i feel that chu needs to give more space for gender possibility. she really just wrote about how everyone is a female trait lmao 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia

tabithalevis's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Sexism, and Sexual content