Overview
Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader is a much-needed exploration of the relationship between sex, gender and gender identity. Its multidisciplinary approach provides fascinating perspectives from the sciences, social sciences and humanities, as well as biology, neuroscience, medicine, law, sociology and English literature. The 15 chapters are original contributions, authored by scholars who are leaders in their respective fields. This thought-provoking collection offers significant methodological, theoretical and empirical insights into one of the most fraught debates in contemporary politics and academia. It provides a broad-ranging introduction to the issues central to questions about how and why sex matters from a range of disciplinary perspectives, drawing out the social, political and legal implications. Questions addressed include: Is sex binary? What is a woman? Why do we need data on sex? Also discussed are topics widely debated today such as sports, feminism, sex and inequality, sex-based rights, puberty suppression, criminal justice and gender dysphoria. Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader is a timely introduction to contemporary debates on sex and gender. It is an accessible text for both general readers and for students of gender issues across a wide range of disciplines including sociology, education, history, philosophy and gender studies.
Full Product Details
Author: Alice Sullivan (University College London, UK) ,
Selina Todd (University of Oxford, UK)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.548kg
ISBN: 9781032261201
ISBN 10: 103226120
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 25 August 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"'Sex and gender have become highly politicized characters in confused and often ill-informed debates. This book, with scholarly contributions from across the sciences, throws a clear and immensely welcome light on why both sex and gender matter, and how the relationship between the two is a matter of evidence, not of personal opinion.' - Ann Oakley, University College London, UK 'An important and extremely timely collection of essays that presents a valuable overview of current research investigating the relationship between sex, gender, and gender identity in the UK today.' - Sarah Pedersen, Robert Gordon University, UK 'Sex and gender have become highly politicized characters in confused and often ill-informed debates. This book, with scholarly contributions from across the disciplines, throws a clear and immensely welcome light on why both sex and gender matter, and how the relationship between the two is a matter of evidence, not of personal opinion. Societies invent gender, but sex is an immutable biological fact. A public policy that ignores this difference risks unravelling many gains in women’s rights. This is not just a matter of obscure academic argument, but one that concerns us all.' Ann Oakley, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, Social Research Institute, University College London, UK 'An important and extremely timely collection of essays that presents a valuable overview of current research investigating the relationship between sex, gender and gender identity in the UK today. The contributors to this volume are all senior researchers in their fields who conduct evidence-based research and believe, in issues as diverse as criminology, sports science, children’s literature, education and many others, that sex matters. This book pays tribute to their tenacity in researching the erasure of sex categories in their fields in the face of the many obstacles that have been placed in the way of ""gender-critical"" scholars.' Sarah Pedersen, Professor in Communication and Media at Robert Gordon University, UK"
'Sex and gender have become highly politicized characters in confused and often ill-informed debates. This book, with scholarly contributions from across the sciences, throws a clear and immensely welcome light on why both sex and gender matter, and how the relationship between the two is a matter of evidence, not of personal opinion.' - Ann Oakley, University College London, UK 'An important and extremely timely collection of essays that presents a valuable overview of current research investigating the relationship between sex, gender, and gender identity in the UK today.' - Sarah Pedersen, Robert Gordon University, UK
Author Information
Alice Sullivan is Professor of Sociology at University College London, UK. She was director of the 1970 British Cohort Study (BSC70) for ten years from 2010 to 2020. She has published extensively on social, educational and health inequalities using longitudinal data analysis. Selina Todd is Professor of Modern History at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, UK. Her books include The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class 1910–2010 (2014) and Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution (2019).
