Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe - Couverture souple

Lewis, Sophie

 
9798888905975: Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe
Couverture souple
ISBN 13 : 9798888905975
Editeur : Haymarket Books, 2026

Synopsis

From the author of Enemy Feminisms and Abolish the Family, a fierce critique of femmephobia within feminism, and a vision of a life-giving femme feminism for all.

For two centuries, feminists have tried to be respectable and serious. In Femmephilia, Sophie Lewis makes the case for the vital political importance of "femmeness" a femininity that is self-consciously artificial, a femininity whose erotic and political appetites are considered unacceptable and unnatural. Being femme is a kind of work that merits love and respect--but femmes instead face criticism from antagonists and feminist allies alike.

Where neoliberal women's empowerment has failed to combat the eruption of right-wing, anti-trans, and anti-feminist attacks, Lewis argues that femmephilia can help us imagine a radical future. In essays on the high femme genius of Marilyn Monroe and trans yearning in the myth of Apollo and Daphne; on tradwives and girlbosses, reluctant heterosexuals, lesbian separatists, and anti-work cats; and on a mother on strike from maternity and a poet who mothered against motherhood, Femmephilia offers a new logic of liberation for all feminized people.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sophie Lewis is a writer, utopian, feminist, and independent scholar. She is the author of Enemy Feminisms, Abolish the Family, and Full Surrogacy Now, and a contributor to the collection Hope Against Hope. Lewis's essays and articles routinely appear in academic journals like Feminist Theory as well as literary ones like n+1, Harper's, and the London Review of Books. Lewis teaches short courses on feminist theory at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and has a visiting affiliation with the Center for Research on Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is based in Philadelphia, PA.

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Éditeur
Haymarket Books
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798888905975
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
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