Book description
An award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female.
The idea that gender is a performance-a tenet of queer feminist theory since the nineties-has spread from college classrooms to popular culture. This transformative concept has sparked reappraisals of…
- Coming soon!
Why read it?
1 author picked Performance All the Way Down as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
At a time when the President wants to assert that gender/sex is strictly binary, nothing could be more important or relevant than a book making a deeply scientifically grounded argument for the complexity of gender/sex. In this book the author melds the science of evolution and genetics with queer, feminist theory, taking both strands of thought seriously, to argue that every cell, and every organism is a performance of the instructions in the DNA it contains. In other words, that genetics is not destiny, but something much more contingent and reflective of circumstances.
The exposition could get pretty technical at…
If you love Performance All the Way Down...
These Blue Mountains
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
Want books like Performance All the Way Down?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 7 books like Performance All the Way Down.
📚 If you like Performance All the Way Down, you might also like...
Foxfire in the Snow
It's a time of change, between magic and alchemy.
Born the heir of a master woodcutter in a queendom defined by guilds and matrilineal inheritance, nonbinary Sorin can’t quite seem to find their place. At seventeen, an opportunity to attend an alchemical guild fair and secure an apprenticeship with the…
The Main Gate
Dr. Elise Marquette has spent years burying the past—until the past refuses to stay buried.
Hired to join Earth’s first interstellar contact team, she hopes the vastness of space will finally offer distance from the ghosts of war and the wounds left by a mother who never let her be…