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

by Richard O. Prum

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 social expectations as well as debate over not just gender, but sex: what it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022677175X
• ISBN13: 9780226771755
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"