Material Girls

Stock, Kathleen

£9.99

‘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.

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Publish Date: 07/04/2022
ISBN: 9780349726625 Category: Tag:

Description

‘A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book’ Evening Standard

‘A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don’t always end well’ Sunday Times

Material Girls 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.

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.

Material Girls 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.

Additional information

Weight 256 g
Dimensions 196 × 126 × 28 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

320

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

305.3 (edition:23)

Readership

College – higher education / Code: F