num_pages: 432
description: 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.
language: English
title: Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
publisher: Fleet