{"product_id":"femmephilia-love-letters-to-trans-mermaids-queer-mothers-and-marilyn-monroe","title":"Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER ONLY. PLEASE PLACE PREORDERS AS SEPARATE ORDERS FROM ITEMS YOU WOULD LIKE FULFILLED IMMEDIATELY. ITEMS ORDERED WITH PREORDER BOOKS WILL BE HELD UNTIL THE PREORDER IS AVAILABLE FOR FULFILLMENT. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAVAILABLE JUNE 16, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy: Sophie Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003cem\u003eEnemy Feminisms\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/em\u003e, an original diagnosis of femmephobia in our culture, and a vision of a life-giving femme feminism for all.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo be femme is to embody a dispossessed femininity, to be freighted with freedom, to refuse to be made proper or institutionalized. To love it is to embrace love for women (be they butch or not) in the broadest sense. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFemmephilia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Sophie Lewis makes the case for the vital importance of politicized femme-ness: a feminism that is self-consciously artificial, extravagant in its erotic and political appetites, and staunchly anti-work, abolitionist, and utopian. Femme labors deserve our care, respect, and support, but instead face dismissal from masculinist antagonists and feminist allies alike.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhere 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 octopuses and girlbosses, reluctant heterosexuals, lesbian separatists, and anti-work cats; and on a mother on strike from maternity, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFemmephilia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers a new logic of liberation for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e feminized people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47848329248919,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/0349\/4039\/files\/9798888905975_a3949.jpg?v=1779910873","url":"https:\/\/littledistrictbooks.com\/products\/femmephilia-love-letters-to-trans-mermaids-queer-mothers-and-marilyn-monroe","provider":"Little District Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}