Sex and gender : a contemporary reader / edited by Alice Sullivan and Selina Todd.

Date:
2023
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Description

"Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader explores the relationship between sex and gender identity with perspectives from across the social and human sciences. Each of the 15 chapters have been specially commissioned for this volume, and authored by scholars who are leaders in their respective fields. Each chapter offers significant methodological, theoretical and empirical insights into one of the most fraught debates in contemporary politics and academia. The book provides a broad-ranging introduction to the issues central to the 'gender critical' debate from a range of academic disciplines, drawing out the implications for social, political and legal debates. Topics and questions addressed include: the history of sex is womanhood a social fact? sex and the brain do we need data on sex? Also discussed are sports, sex-based rights, puberty suppression, criminal justice and gender dysphoria. Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader is ideal for students studying gender issues from a wide range of disciplines including sociology, history, philosophy and gender studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Physical description

xii, 281 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Alice Sullivan and Selina Todd -- Two sexes / Emma Hilton and Colin Wright -- Sex and the brain : I still haven't found what I wasn't looking for / Sophie Scott -- Is womanhood a social fact? / Kathleen Stock -- The history of sex : sex denial and gender identity ideology / Jane Clare Jones -- Sex and gender in second-wave feminism / Selina Todd -- Why do we need data on sex? / Alice Sullivan, Kath Murray and Lisa Mackenzie -- Sex and gender in law / Rosemary Auchmuty and Rosa Freedman -- Sex, gender, and equality in the United States : confusion, conflict, and consequences / Callie H. Burt -- Psychosocial factors and gender dysphoria : emerging theories / Lisa Littman -- The technology of puberty suppression / Michael Biggs -- Schools, feminism and gender-identity theory / Shereen Benjamin -- The children who wouldn't grow up : gender in children's literature over fifty years / Susan Matthews -- Sex, gender identity and sport / Cathy Devine -- Sex, gender, identity and criminology / Jo Phoenix.

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ISBN

  • 9781032261201
  • 103226120X