Perhaps there are, but by taking the most famous ship of all and flipping the genders, readers are reminded that there is no real reason any of these characters need be male or female," she said.
The traditional use of gender-specified texts may artificially promote dichotomous gender choice in readers.
Ranging from the 24-year-old Téa Obreht, whose debut novel will be published next year, to the 39-year-old writer Chris Adrian, the list is an eclectic mix of famous and lesser-known names, neatly dividing between the genders and providing readers with a guide to potential future literary stars.
It is possible that purveying pleasure to some is as worthy as contributing invention, ideology or dedication - the problem here is that appreciating this pleasure will inevitably divide your readers along gender lines.
Each month they publish a report that breaks down comic readers into gender, age, ethnicity etc, using a fairly complicated – and admittedly not very scientific or comprehensive – formula that takes as its baseline all the people in the US who list comics as a hobby or "like" on their Facebook pages.
YA writers like David Levithan are working to remind young readers that gender is a social construct; literary fiction writers like Danielle Evans give a voice to young black girls experimenting with sex for the first time. .
The reaction patterns should be seen in the light of various influencing factors, including the test readers' age, gender, and life situation, experiences with illness, attitudes, values and emotions.
Given that it's written by a professional businesswoman imparting her earned wisdom along with her gender-related research to readers, the book skews toward more educated women who see their work as a career instead of simply a get-the-bills-paid job.
I'm not a reader of "gender theory" or "feminist theory".
Throughout TRANNY, we took great care in describing her struggle with dysphoria and gender identity to the reader.
The problem is that after making such an argument, first on race, then on gender, you give the reader such a clear indication of your bias.
