So, while I don't agree with every fine point Stock makes in Material Girls, I know that her positions are not influenced by any special interest group. Stock has pissed off academia and feminists-I've seen it myself on Twitter, never mind her book calling out academia's penchant for "novel hot takes"-and she clearly doesn't care. Stock represents no one but herself she's at once an academic, a philosopher, and a feminist-but she's gone rogue in search of the truth. These ideas dominate almost all areas of public debate and policy. Material Girls is about gender, sex, feminism, and transgender ideology, topics that are inseparable from wider cultural forces today-like postmodernism and poststructuralism. In future decades, there will be a set of canonical books by authors who challenged today's mainstream doctrines and promoted reason-imagine that!-as alternatives to our deranged, identity-politics-obsessed culture Kathleen Stock's Material Girlswill be in this canon, no doubt.
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