Publisher's Synopsis
Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader explores the relationship between sex, gender and gender identity. This multidisciplinary volume provides perspectives from across the sciences, social sciences and humanities, including biology, neuroscience, medicine, law, sociology and English literature. The 15 chapters all represent original contributions, authored by scholars who are leaders in their respective fields.
This 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.
Topics and questions addressed include:
- what is sex?
- what is a woman?
- why do we need data on sex?
- the aims and achievements of second wave feminism.
Also discussed are sports, 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.
