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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).
"'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"
