BOOK LAUNCH: Listening Like A Girl by Juliana Gleeson

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Join celebrated writer and thinker Juliana Gleeson, author of Hermaphrodite Logic and co-editor Transgender Marxism for the launch of her latest work of radical trans theory.

Listening Like A Girl, Juliana Gleeson’s latest work, argues that at the core of the feminine is the act of listening, and more to the point, listening more intently than those speaking. While society constructs listening as a form of passivity, it hides an inherent power as a highly skilled and competent act, capable of undermining patriarchal expectations.

Extrapolating from this core observation, Gleeson takes the reader on a cultural and theoretical journey. She explores figures from pop singer Troye Sivan to Jacqueline Rose, provides new perspectives on butch and bisexuality, and the links between femininity and communist politics.

Our author:

Juliana Gleeson is a writer and salonnière born in west London, living in east Berlin. She is known for adoring the em dash—and one censored newspaper interview. She is the author of Hermaphrodite Logic and the co-editor of Transgender Marxism.

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If you choose ‘book + entry’ your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier, or arrange for delivery, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.

Doors Open at 6:45pm, Event Starts 7:00.