Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Gender, Double Toil and Trouble
Chapter 2: ‘Gender’ Trouble
Chapter 3: Clownfish and Chromosomes
Chapter 4: I am Woman
Chapter 5: The Rise of Gender Identity
Chapter 6: Born in the Wrong Body
Chapter 7: Is Biology Destiny?
Chapter 8: True Selves and Identity Crises
Coda
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Alex Byrne is Professor of Philosophy at MIT.
"Alex Byrne masterfully does what philosophers are supposed to do:
clarify words and concepts, identify which ideas follows from which
other ones, and distinguish what is from what ought to be. And
despite the now incendiary subject matter, he accomplishes all this
with a light touch and an appealing voice."
Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard
University, and author of Rationality
"A refreshingly clarifying and forthright take on the philosophy of
gender activism, cutting through the noise with incisiveness and
wit. Anyone interested in the gender wars needs to read it."
Kathleen Stock, author of Material Girls
"Alex Byrne's Trouble with Gender is an admirably clear and
rigorous book that outlines the major parameters of what is often
an off-kilter discussion. Combining philosophy and science with an
eye for how issues of sex and gender are discussed in the media,
Byrne gives the reader a lesson not only in how to think about
these specific issues, but also in how to think at all."
Nina Power, author of One Dimensional Woman and What Do Men Want?
"Current academic discussions of sex and gender are dominated by
advocates, dogmatists, poseurs, and obscurantists. Trouble with
Gender offers a lucid, rigorous and judicious guide to the
perplexed. It’s an antidote to irrationality and also a pleasure to
read."
Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Who Stole Feminism?
"Everyone with opinions, or questions, about matters of sex and
gender should read this book. It carefully and incisively unravels
the tangled mass of ideas that cluster under the umbrella of
gender. It does not engage in politics, or question the extent of
human variability, or deny the reality of anyone’s experience, but
it does claim that there is no escape from the concept of sex as
binary, and that the prevailing orthodoxy, which treats sex as
socially constructed and an infinitely malleable continuum, is
‘tragically wrong’. I challenge anyone who accepts that orthodoxy
to explain in detail where the arguments presented here go
wrong."
Janet Radcliffe Richards, author of The Sceptical Feminist
“excellent… Byrne succeeds wildly.”
Jesse Singal, Substack
“an excellent book — accessible, scholarly and by far the best to
date on the subject”
The Times
“Trouble with Gender is an excellent work of public
philosophy”
The Philosopher’s Magazine
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