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. It will investigate 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. 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. *************************************************************īook Descriptions: 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. Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism by kathleen stock fleet, 320 pages, 26.99 Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality by helen joyce oneworld, 320 pages, 25.95 O n the identitarian left, refusing to pay lip service to the belief that humans can literally change sex is now a serious heresy. If you want to Download Or Read Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
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