Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Published 2020 · 17,600 words · about 1 hour at an average pace

How hard is Beyond the Gender Binary to read?

Beyond the Gender Binary scores 40 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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: 40 out of 100
Plain, direct vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 40 out of 100
Short sentences in a small book.
Abstraction: 52 out of 100
A conceptual argument made accessibly.
Information density: 45 out of 100
Very light.

How Beyond the Gender Binary is regarded

Beyond the Gender Binary holds a literary regard score of 33 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.

About the author

Alok Vaid-Menon