Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others by Sara Ahmed
Published 2006 · 61,325 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others to read?
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others scores 70 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: 72 out of 100
- Phenomenological and queer-theory vocabulary together.
- Sentence structure: 68 out of 100
- Long sentences that turn on repeated key words.
- Abstraction: 85 out of 100
- Orientation itself as the object of study.
- Information density: 72 out of 100
- Dense with Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Fanon.
How Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others is regarded
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others holds a literary regard score of 69 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.