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Gender-Critical Feminism Hardcover – 12 May 2022

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The expectation used to be that men would be masculine and women would be feminine, and this was assumed to come naturally to them in virtue of their biology. That orthodoxy persists today in many parts of society. On this view, sex is gender and gender is sex.

A new view of gender has emerged in recent years, a view on which gender is an 'identity', a way that people feel about themselves in terms of masculinity or femininity, regardless of their sex. On this view, sex is dismissed as unimportant, and gender is made paramount.

In the rush to celebrate this new view of gender, we have lost sight of a more powerful challenge to the traditional orthodoxy, namely the feminist sex/gender distinction according to which sex is biological and gender is social. On this view, gender is something done to people on the basis of sex. Women are socialised to conform to norms of femininity (and sanctioned for failure), and masculinity and femininity exist in a hierarchy in which femininity is devalued. This view helps us to understand injustice against women, and what we can do about it.

Holly Lawford-Smith introduces and defends gender-critical feminism, a theory and movement that reclaims the sex/gender distinction, insists upon the reality and importance of sex, and continues to understand gender as a way that men and women are made to be, rather than a way they really are.

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320 pages
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English
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OUP Oxford
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12 May 2022
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21.77 x 2.29 x 14.55 cm
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0198863888
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978-0198863885
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Holly Lawford-Smith is an Associate Professor in Political Philosophy in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She works in social, moral, and political philosophy and has focused on climate ethics, collective action, and feminism. Her last book was Not In Their Name (OUP, 2019), on citizens' culpability for states' actions. Before the University of Melbourne, she worked at the University of Sheffield, the Australian National University, and Charles Sturt University. Her PhD is from the Australian National University and her undergraduate, Honours, and Masters degrees are from the University of Otago.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ OUP Oxford (12 May 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198863888
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198863885
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.77 x 2.29 x 14.55 cm

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Holly Newington

Thoughtful and balanced analysis

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2022

I bought this book after seeing people who hadn’t read it calling for it to be banned, so thank you to them for bringing it to my attention.
The book starts by covering what gender critical is and then in the second part looks at some questions it needs to address.
This is an academic book but is very accessible to a more casual reader and I found it an interesting and respectful read.
Dr Lawford-Smith sets out both sides of arguments and I found the questions for GC to answer particularly though provoking.
Would recommend for anyone new to this topic or wanting to learn more about it.

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Dee T.

Disappointing.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 June 2022

There is an interesting ethical conundrum about whether one can separate the author from their work and the author’s distinctly anti-feminist trashing of women.
For one thing, it’s astonishing to write a book about gender without reference to foundational works such as Sheila Jeffreys ‘Gender Hurts’ (this is like writing a book about evolution and omitting The Origin of Species). For another, the author’s use of pronouns undermines her own case. There are also difficulties with the term ‘Gender Critical Feminism’ when, by definition, feminism is gender critical (perhaps this philosopher hasn’t encountered tautologies). Overall, this book is a disappointment, offers readers new to the debate confusion, and proceeds in ignorance of her predecessors. I suggest you buy books by Sheila Jeffreys and Julia Long.

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Quilligan

Overpriced; inchoate; unstructured; ignorance of predecessors.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 June 2022

As per the title. Even if one can overlook the price (set by the publisher), the text itself is, unfortunately, a mish-mash of inchoate prose that lapses into sympathies for the very position the author argues against. Furthermore, the author fails to credit her predecessors leading newcomes to the erroneous conclusion that the ideas herein are particularly novel - they are not, and the author owes a debt to Sheila Jeffreys, Julia Long, Audre Lorde etc etc. I've learned more from following feminists on Twitter (e.g., 'Standing For Women', Venice Allan, Kara Danksy, 'WOLF', Dr Louise Moody, Dr Em, Jo Bartosch, Caroline Farrow, and others) than from reading this book which is something of a disappointment.

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