Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
Material Girls presents a timely and opinionated critique of the culturally influential theory that we each have an inner feeling about our sex...
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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 female-only spaces and resources, healthcare, epidemiology, political organization and data collection. It investigates the intellectual history of gender identity, showing how the concept is linked to a misguided philosophical picture which broadly rejects science and conflates facts about intersex people with facts about trans people. Material Girls concludes with a positive vision for the future, of collaboration between feminists and trans activists, detailing how they could work together to achieve some of their political aims.
- Format:Hardcover
- Pages:432 pages
- Publication:2021
- Publisher:Fleet
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- Language:eng
- ISBN10:0349726590
- ISBN13:9780349726595
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