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Females by Andrea Long Chu
2.5
challenging informative reflective fast-paced

So I will say this was not as horrible as I was kind of expecting, based on the reviews of folks I trust. I don't know that the form was exactly right for highlighting the most work; I've read reviews about Chu not committing to the bit and I would definitely agree with that; she seems to pull back from her arguments just as they're hitting a real peak, or getting near interesting.

I think what was most interesting for me was Chu interrogating Valarie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto frequent inclusion as a feminist text, and that frankly Chu's argumentation following the logics in Solanas's work reveal the claustrophobic world Solanas's work creates. Probably the other most interesting part for me was the section on pornography, but otherwise I was left kind of "meh" by the end.