Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
Published 2024 · 76,450 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender to read?
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender scores 50 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: 52 out of 100
- Historical and gender-studies vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Clear sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Historical cases used to unsettle a category.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Dense with cross-cultural material.
How Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender is regarded
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender holds a literary regard score of 37 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.