Material Girls

''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 remind ...

''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'