# Femmephilia

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- Book: [Femmephilia](https://www.bookquiver.com/sophie-lewis/femmephilia) ([Femmephilia.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sophie-lewis/femmephilia.md))
- Authors: [Sophie R. Lewis](https://www.bookquiver.com/sophie-lewis)
- Publisher: Haymarket Books
- ISBN: 979-88-8890-597-5
- Pages: 346
- Published: 2026-06-16
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.