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Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism 06-May-2021

by Kathleen Stock

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'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'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 organization 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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Only Imagine: Fiction, Interpretation and Imagination 01-Sep-2017

by Kathleen Stock

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Only Imagine offers a theory of fictional content or, as it is sometimes known, 'fictional truth'.
The theory of fictional content Kathleen Stock argues for is known as 'extreme intentionalism'; the idea that the fictional content of a particular work is equivalent to exactly what the author of the work intended the reader to imagine. Historically, this sort of view has been highly unpopular. Literary theorists and philosophers alike have poured scorn upon it. The first half of this book attempts to argue that it should in fact be taken very seriously as an adequate account of
fictional truth: better, in fact, than many of its more popular rivals. The second half explores various explanatory benefits of extreme intentionalism for other issues in the philosophy of fiction and imagination. Namely, can fiction give us reliable knowledge? Why do we 'resist' imagining certain fictions? What,
in fact, is a fiction? And, how should the imagination be characterised?

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Material Girls: Por qué la realidad es importante para el feminismo (Spanish Edition) 09-May-2022

by Kathleen Stock

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Un análisis claro, conciso y accesible sobre las relaciones entre sexo, género y feminismo. La revisión crítica y feminista de la teoría queer que generó una enorme polémica en el Reino Unido.
Material Girls es un libro de pensamiento. En él se articula una crítica incisiva y sólidamente argumentada a la principal tesis de la identidad de género, según la cual el género que cada cual "siente" y se adscribe de forma subjetiva es más relevante que la realidad objetiva del sexo biológico, cuya existencia llega incluso a negarse. La profesora Kathleen Stock empieza por rastrear el origen filosófico de estos planteamientos, desde la tan famosa como desvirtuada sentencia de Simone de Beauvoir de que "No se nace mujer, se llega a serlo", hasta los desarrollos de la teoría queer o el pensamiento de Judith Butler, para quien el lenguaje crea la realidad, en lugar de describirla. Frente a ello, la autora muestra las incoherencias e incluso sinsentidos a los que conducen esos planteamientos, y complementa su crítica a partir de la evidencia empírica disponible. Porque, como se pretende demostrar, la realidad material es esencial para la protección de los derechos de las mujeres. El libro es una invitación a abrir un debate sereno, racional y sin prejuicios en torno a una cuestión que con demasiada frecuencia se ha convertido en una "verdad" incuestionable, como ha demostrado la violenta polémica y las airadas reacciones que han acompañado a la publicación del libro. Material Girls concluye con una visión positiva para el futuro, en la que las activistas de derechos trans y feministas pueden colaborar para lograr sus objetivos políticos.
La crítica ha dicho...
"Un libro riguroso, que explora los orígenes académicos y políticos de la llamada 'identidad de género' e intenta establecer los datos demostrados de un debate contaminado de ideología y visceralidad." ―Rafa de Miguel, El País.
"Material Girls es un libro valiente y cuidadosamente argumentado, una lectura imprescindible." ―Sonia Andermahr, Morning Star.
"Un análisis claro, conciso y fácil de leer de las relaciones entre sexo, género y feminismo." ―Stella O'Malley, Evening Standard.

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