3.5 stars.
Very interesting book! Not going to lie, I thought I was going to be a bit too uneducated for this book and I wouldn't end up understanding lie half of it, but it ended up being fine. Very glad I was able to read and understand this book!
Highly recommend it to anyone interested in the subject!

As a masters student studying Gender and Sexuality on top of my own experiences as a Nonbinary person, I truly enjoyed and devoured this book.

I have only read some philosophy in college but I managed to understand most of it and will be buying my 0wn physical copy to use for my studies and essays.

Thank you to the publishers for providing me an Arc of this book!

[Digital copy provided by NetGalley]

Really interesting collection! As with most essay collections, I didn't end up liking every essay, but a good amount resonated strongly. I read this for an academic project and only 6/14 essays ended up relevant for it. There were a few that went completely over my head as someone not deeply entrenched in philosophy as an academic discipline but I still think there's a lot of food for thought here. My favourite chapter was "Laughing at Trans Women: A Theory of Transmisogyny" by fair, it alone is worth picking up this collection.

In a word - fantastic. I am, admittedly, a layman in terms of my relation to philosophy, but as a trans person in the US in 2024, the subject matter is quite close to my heart and head. There were a couple of essays that were over my head. Still, the majority of the collection was accessible enough that I think most people who are invested in the movement for the rights of trans* people can understand the points being made. There were absolutely a few essays that absolutely changed my way of thinking about what it means to be trans* and how we relate to our bodies and external pressures/opinions/policies. I would highly recommend this to folks who fall under the trans* umbrella as well as allies and anyone interested in some of the underlying theory behind what trans* folks are facing in the current political/social environment.