Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader is a much-needed exploration of the relationship between sex, gender and gender identity. Its multidisciplinary approach provides fascinating perspectives from the sciences, social sciences and humanities, as well as biology, neuroscience, medicine, law, sociology and English literature.

This thought-provoking 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.

The journalist and novelist Joan Smith will convene a panel discussion with some of the book’s authors. This will be followed by questions from the floor, and then refreshments. The book will be available for sales and signing.

The event is hosted by the UCL Social Research Institute and UCL Women's Liberation.

Panel:

Professor Alice Sullivan, Professor of Sociology, UCL

Professor Selina Todd, Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford

Professor Sophie Scott (CBE), Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL

Dr Michael Biggs. Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford

Chair: Joan Smith, journalist and novelist

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