Katie's Reviews > Venus Plus X

Fellas, why are we not all reading this book? Published more than a decade before the big feminist utopias of the 70s this is a story about a world of intersex people who live in a gender free society and collectively worship children. It has some great stuff about the unreality of binary, biological sex, how we socialise children into their assigned genders, and how deep rooted misogyny is in how current society is structured. Lots of people seem to think the gender politics are dated but I actually think that Sturgeon's total lack of affinity with a nature worshipping brand of trans exclusionary feminism makes this novel feel more compelling now than a lot of later feminist work. The ending went a bit off the rails for me but all in all big recommend.