Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
By: Kathleen Stock
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an imp…
Want to Read $ 5.99"I am critical of gender identity theory – but not of trans people, for whom I have friendly sympathy and respect."-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
"I am critical of gender identity theory – but not of trans people, for whom I have friendly sympathy and respect."-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
"The background assumption seems to be that, paradoxically, by identifying and discussing socially produced inequalities, we further entrench them; whereas if we ignore them, perhaps they will go away."-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
"The background assumption seems to be that, paradoxically, by identifying and discussing socially produced inequalities, we further entrench them; whereas if we ignore them, perhaps they will go away."-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
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1. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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2. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
By: Abigail Shrier
4.14
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Irreversible Damage is an exploration of a mystery: Why, in the last decade, has the diagnosis "gen… read more
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"Women feel things deeply. We empathize. For good reason, when asked to identify their best friend, most men name their wives; most women name another woman."-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
"For those of you who have ever been an adolescent or attempted the toe-curling, hair-whitening endeavor of raising one—hold your laughter. Resist the urge to squeal out loud at the preposterous notio…"-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
"Nearly every novel problem teenagers face traces itself back to 2007 and the introduction of Steve Jobs’s iPhone. In fact, the explosion in self-harm can be so precisely pinpointed to the introductio…"-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
3. Politics is Murder
By: Nick Tyrone
4.64
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
'A hilarious political satire bursting with black humour with an unforgettable anti-heroine' 5* Rev… read more
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4. Feminism Against Progress
By: Mary Harrington
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Modern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason … read more
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"But the weakness of these proposals isn't that they're unworkable, or even that they're 'traditional,' but that they're not traditional enough. For most of history, men and women worked together, in …"-Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress
5. Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
By: Kathleen Stock
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an imp… read more
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- womens
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"I am critical of gender identity theory – but not of trans people, for whom I have friendly sympathy and respect."-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
"The background assumption seems to be that, paradoxically, by identifying and discussing socially produced inequalities, we further entrench them; whereas if we ignore them, perhaps they will go away."-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
"A first thing to note, in case it’s unclear, is that I am not arguing against legal protections for trans people against violence, discrimination or coercive surgeries. I enthusiastically support the…"-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
"And perhaps most awkwardly, they have been left unable properly to explain why, internationally, half the population in a given culture might be disproportionately subject to specific experiences lik…"-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
6. Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
By: Victoria Smith
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
What is about about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone? In… read more
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7. Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
By: Helen Joyce
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Gender identity ideology is about more than twitter storms and using the right pronouns. In just te… read more
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"Most people are in the dark about what is being demanded by transactivists. They understand the call for ‘trans rights’ to mean compassionate concessions that enable a suffering minority to live full…"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
"On the Right, the extremists are white ethno-nationalist majoritarians; on the Left, they are identitarians who see progress as a process of bringing one marginalized group after another in from the …"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
"What same-sex marriage, women's franchise and the end of segregation all have in common is that they extend the rights of a privileged group to everyone. And when people hear the phrase 'trans rights…"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
"In the spread of gender-identity ideology, developments in academia played a crucial role. This is not the place for an extended critique of the thinking that evolved on American campuses out of the …"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
8. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society
By: Debra Soh
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths … read more
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"Men’s behavior is, to some extent, the result of female sexual preferences. If women didn’t want to mate with masculine men, these traits would have been removed from the gene pool long ago. “Toxic m…"-Debra Soh, The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society
"Activist organizations have managed to infect much of the information that is available relating to both gender and biological sex. Any research studies that are not in agreement with this agenda are…"-Debra Soh, The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society
"Therein lies the double standard: If a child is gender-nonconforming, this is interpreted as biological and something that shouldn’t be dissuaded or tampered with. But if a child is gender-conforming…"-Debra Soh, The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society
9. The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
By: Louise Perry
4.28
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously po… read more
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"Prostitution has never been a matter of personal choice or female empowerment. Rather, the role of 'buyer' versus 'seller' has always been determined not only by sex but also by race, nationality and…"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
"Sex workers can act as sources of sex advice only if we understand sex to be a skillset that must be learned and refined across different partners, with good sex a result not of intimacy but of good …"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
"We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, rega…"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
10. Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
By: Nigel Biggar
3.99
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire … read more
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11. The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
By: Andrew Doyle
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
'A sober but devastating skewering of cancel culture and the moral certainties it shares with relig… read more
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"Where the New Left promoted the politics of unity, today’s intersectional reactionaries promote the politics of division."-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
"Theres no harm un recognizing the more vindictive side of human nature, so long as we do not allow our reason to be dominated by our passion."-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
"The belief of the apparatchiks of Critical Social Justice - that all our problems will magically disappear once we outlaw certain points of view or words that cause 'harm' - is a utopian delusion."-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
"Just as the symbol of Christ's crucifix encapsulates the triumph of the victim and has been exploited historically as a means to exert power over others, the rainbow Pride flag now serves a similar f…"-Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
12. Tough Crowd: How I Made and Lost a Career in Comedy
By: Graham Linehan
4.44
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Bafta-garlanded creator of Father Ted and The IT Crowd tells of his rise and painful fall. Part… read more
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13. The Patient
By: Nick Tyrone
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A chilling dystopian novel about bodily autonomy and the medical establishment, for fans of Andrew … read more
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14. Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation
By: Julie Bindel
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Part feminist manifesto, part call to arms, Feminism for Women is a radical, new exploration of fem… read more
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15. The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht: Voices from the Front Line of Scotland's Battle for Women's Rights
By: Susan Dalgety
4.56
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament, this book captures an important moment in conte… read more
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16. Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
By: Hannah Barnes
4.40
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service… read more
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"GIDS’s own limited data, which found ‘no evidence of change in psychological function’ with puberty-blocker treatment."-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has undoubtedly helped some people. It has unquestionably harmed others."-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"NHS England. Why did they allow the early blocking of puberty to be rolled out as routine practice without demanding to see some data supporting this radical shift? Why didn’t it insist on seeing any…"-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"It is mad,’ was the reply. Hutchinson paused. When one of the leaders of a service that helps children to access powerful, life-changing drugs comments that what they’re doing is ‘mad’, there is clea…"-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
17. The Abolition of Sex: How the "Transgender" Agenda Harms Women and Girls
By: Kara Dansky
4.26
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Most Americans do not understand the real threat that the "transgender" agenda, or the so-called "g… read more
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18. The End of the World is Flat
By: Simon Edge
4.22
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
A satirical comedy featuring Christopher Columbus, a tech billionaire, and a global delusion. Mel W… read more
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19. Unfair Play: The Battle For Women's Sport
By: Sharron Davies
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
On the face of it, women’s sport is on the rise, garnering more attention and grassroots involvemen… read more
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20. Gender-Critical Feminism
By: Holly Lawford-Smith
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The expectation used to be that men would be masculine and women would be feminine, and this was as… read more
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