Gender Without Identity by Avgi Saketopoulou
Published 2023
How hard is Gender Without Identity to read?
Gender Without Identity scores 74 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it very 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: 80 out of 100
- Full psychoanalytic vocabulary, largely unglossed.
- Sentence structure: 78 out of 100
- Long, densely clausal sentences.
- Abstraction: 88 out of 100
- Gender formation argued at a very high abstraction.
- Information density: 75 out of 100
- Dense with Laplanche and clinical material.
How Gender Without Identity is regarded
Gender Without Identity holds a literary regard score of 39 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.