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Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Kathleen Stock (Author, Narrator), Little, Brown Audio (Publisher)

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'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. She looks at biological sex in a range of important contexts, including women-only spaces and resources, healthcare, epidemiology, political organisation and data collection.

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.

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  1. Listening Length
    8 hours and 43 minutes
  2. Author
    Kathleen Stock
  3. Narrator
    Kathleen Stock
  4. Audible release date
    August 26, 2021
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Little, Brown Audio
  7. ASIN
    B096W6WT6S
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 8 hours and 43 minutes
Author Kathleen Stock
Narrator Kathleen Stock
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date August 26, 2021
Publisher Little, Brown Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B096W6WT6S
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