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 *Ī fearless, rigorous study of gender identity. 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 * a clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism. 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 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 * Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9780349726625 Number of pages: 320 Weight: 256 g Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 28 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 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. She looks at biological sex in a range of important contexts, including women-only spaces and resources, healthcare, epidemiology, political organization and data collection. 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.

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. 'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday Times 'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism.

Material Girls by Kathleen Stock