Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
Published 2024 · 88,000 words · about 6 hours at an average pace
How hard is Who's Afraid of Gender? to read?
Who's Afraid of Gender? scores 68 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 72 out of 100
- Theoretical vocabulary, more glossed than usual for her.
- Sentence structure: 70 out of 100
- Long sentences, though written for a wider readership.
- Abstraction: 80 out of 100
- An argument about gender as a political phantasm.
- Information density: 72 out of 100
- Dense with global political material.
How Who's Afraid of Gender? is regarded
Who's Afraid of Gender? holds a literary regard score of 55 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.