Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam
Published 1998 · 92,675 words · about 9 hours at an average pace
How hard is Female Masculinity to read?
Female Masculinity 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
- Queer-theory and film-studies vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 70 out of 100
- Long academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- Masculinity separated from male bodies as a conceptual move.
- Information density: 75 out of 100
- Dense with archive, film and theory.
How Female Masculinity is regarded
Female Masculinity holds a literary regard score of 70 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.