‘A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book’ <\/b>Evening Standard<\/i> <\/p>\n
‘A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don’t always end well’ <\/b>Sunday Times <\/i><\/p>\n
Material Girls<\/i> is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling known as a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our biological sex.<\/p>\n
Professor Kathleen Stock surveys the philosophical ideas that led to this point, and closely interrogates each one, from De Beauvoir’s statement that, ‘One is not born, but rather becomes a woman’ (an assertion she contends has been misinterpreted and repurposed), to Judith Butler’s claim that language creates biological reality, rather than describing it. She looks at biological sex in a range of important contexts, including women-only spaces and resources, healthcare, epidemiology, political organization and data collection.<\/p>\n
Material Girls <\/i>makes a clear, humane and feminist case for our retaining the ability to discuss reality, and concludes with a positive vision for the future, in which trans rights activists and feminists can collaborate to achieve some of their political aims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
‘Material Girls’ presents a timely and opinionated critique of the culturally influential theory that we each have an inner feeling about our sex called a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our actual biological sex. It makes a clear and humane feminist case for retaining the ability to discuss material reality about biological sex in a range of important contexts, including women-only spaces and resources, healthcare, epidemiology, political organization, and data collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1707],"product_tag":[373],"class_list":{"0":"post-94036","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-feminism-race-lgbtq","6":"product_tag-feminism-feminist-theory","7":"pa_book_author-stock-kathleen","8":"pa_cover-paperback","9":"pa_dewey-305-3-edition23","10":"pa_imprint-fleet","11":"pa_language-english","12":"pa_pages-8634","13":"pa_publisher-fleet","14":"pa_readership-college-higher-education-code-f","16":"first","17":"onbackorder","18":"taxable","19":"shipping-taxable","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n