Material Girls by Kathleen Stock - ISBN: 9780349726618
Paperback
Sex, gender, feminism: A vital, cool-headed reminder of revolution’s potential costs.

Material Girls

Why Reality Matters for Feminism

  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    11 May 2021

Summary

‘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 social…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349726618
ISBN-10:0349726612
Author:Kathleen Stock
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Fleet
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:11 May 2021
Weight:340g
Dimensions:214mm x 134mm x 26mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

[Material Girls] pack[s] a punch … A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don’t always end well – Christina Patterson * Sunday Times *Reading the book I felt an intense sense of relief that finally a comprehensive account of gender identity theory was presented and explored with both clarity and depth … a clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism … an important book, and it is the middle ground who need to read it as it shows how, if we are to live in a world where gender identity trumps biological sex, then it will be women - the physically weaker sex - who lose out – Stella O’Malley * Evening Standard *In her commitment to free speech, good-faith debate, clear and careful argument and upholding reason over dogma, Stock writes faithfully in the tradition of the Enlightenment – Mary Carington * UnHerd *A fearless, rigorous study of gender identity … [Material Girls is] a brave, enlightening, closely argued book – Jane O’Grady * Daily Telegraph *A clear-sighted analysis in tricky territory * Evening Standard *Anyone who has felt confounded by the shifting debate about sex and gender will find some clarity here. More importantly, you will find a curious mind and a generous spirit – Sarah Ditum * Mail on Sunday *

About The Author

Kathleen Stock

Kathleen Stock is a public philosopher, a freelance writer and a recovering academic.

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