Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference by Richard O. Prum

Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference

Richard O. Prum

368 pages first pub 2023 (view editions)

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
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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—h...

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