Books

Lawford-Smith, Holly., & Pepper, Angie. Is It Wrong To Buy Sex? (New York: Routledge, 2024).

Lawford-Smith, Holly. Sex Matters: Essays in Gender-Critical Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023). [Discount code here].

Media

Witherow, Tom., & Bhutani, Anvee. ‘Academic pulls book from Oxford University Press in transphobia row‘, The Times, 12th May 2023.

Palmer, Thomas. ‘What Is A Woman? Many Philosophers Know, But Aren’t Allowed To Say‘ Quillette, 2nd May 2023.

Byrne, Alex. ‘Philosophy’s No-Go Zone‘, Quillette, 17th April 2023.

Podcasts

Allpike, Ricky., & Astro, Jonathan. ‘The New Flesh – Holly Lawford-Smith | Sex Matters | Ep. 214‘, The New Flesh Podcast, 15th May 2023.

Videos

Doyle, Andrew. ‘Sex Matters: ‘Gender identity rights’ | Holly Lawford-Smith examines gender-critical beliefs‘, Free Speech Nation, GB News, 29th October 2023.

Foran, Michael., Lawford-Smith, Holly., & Summan, Kapil. ‘Edinburgh Speakeasy: Can Words Really Hurt?‘ The Free Speech Union, 29th October 2023.

Nguyen, Chuong. ‘Interview with Holly Lawford-Smith (Political Philosopher, Author – Sex Matters)‘, YouTube, 25th October 2023 [recorded 15th July 2023].

Lawford-Smith, Holly. Gender-Critical Feminism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022). [Discount code here]. [Audiobook here and here].

Reviews

Diaz-Leon, Esa. ‘Lawford-Smith, Holly. Gender-Critical Feminism‘ [Review], Ethics 134/1 (2023), pp. 146-154.

Cernat, Maria. ‘Războaiele feministe de ieri și de azi‘ & ‘Războaie feministe de ieri și de azi – partea a II-a‘, Anthropos 5 (2023). [Translations here: ‘Feminist Wars Yesterday and Today – Part I‘ & ‘Feminist Wars Yesterday and Today – Part II‘].

Gorin, Moti. ‘Gender-Critical Feminism‘, The Philosopher’s Magazine 99 (2023), pp. 90-94.

McCulloch, Alison. ‘What Is Gender-Critical Feminism?‘ 4W, 4th September 2022.

Lynch, Kathryn L. ‘Holly Lawford-Smith, Gender-Critical Feminism‘ Society, 3rd August 2022.

Kodsi, Daniel. ‘Who is feminism for?‘ The Critic, 3rd July 2022.

Vukadinović, Vojin Saša. ‘Verteidigung des Feminismus‘, Schweizer Monat, Issue 1097, June 2022.

O’Grady, Jane. ‘Can apes prove that gender is not all ‘in the mind’?‘ The Telegraph, 29th April 2022.

Media

Witherow, Tom., & Bhutani, Anvee. ‘Academic pulls book from Oxford University Press in transphobia row‘, The Times, 12th May 2023.

Palmer, Thomas. ‘What Is A Woman? Many Philosophers Know, But Aren’t Allowed To Say‘ Quillette, 2nd May 2023.

Byrne, Alex. ‘Philosophy’s No-Go Zone‘, Quillette, 17th April 2023.

Maier, John. ‘The new young philosophers: The 4 under 40 to watch‘, The Times, November 26th 2022.

de Jong, Sjoerd. ‘Het feminisme heeft vrouwen in de steek gelaten’, NRC, 14th July 2022.

Lawford-Smith, Holly. ‘How Automatic Gender ‘Affirmation’ Hurts Women and Girls’, Quillette, 13th July 2022.

Smith, Joan. ‘The trans lobby tried to cancel my book – they don’t want people asking questions‘, The Telegraph, 13th May 2022.

Podcasts

Astro, Jonathon., & Allpike, Ricky. ‘Holly Lawford-Smith | Gender-Critical Feminism‘, The New Flesh Podcast, 6th December 2022.

Cole, Jonathan. ‘Are Women Fully Human? Gender Norms and the Politics of Feminism, with Dr Holly Lawford-Smith‘, The Political Animals, 2nd October 2022.

Videos

Holly Lawford-Smith. (Originally Electric Agora). ‘Electric Agora | Moti Gorin & Holly Lawford-Smith discuss Gender-Critical Feminism (2022)‘, YouTube, 17th December 2022.

Max Karson. ‘Gender Critical Feminism with Holly Lawford-Smith‘, Twitter, 26th October 2022.

Feminist Heretics. ‘Gender-Critical Feminism | Author Meets Critic(al Friend)‘, YouTube, 6th July 2022.

Women’s Declaration International. ‘“Gender-Critical Feminism” by Holly Lawford-Smith, discussed by the author, Caroline Norma, & Jo Brew‘, YouTube, 9th May 2022.

Lawford-Smith, Holly. Not In Their Name: Are Citizens’ Culpable for Their States’ Actions? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).

Reviews

Rafanelli, Lucia. ‘Citizen Responsibility and Group Agency‘, European Journal of Political Theory (2022), [early view].

Blomberg, Olle. ‘Holly Lawford-Smith, Not In Their Name: Are Citizens Culpable For Their States’ Actions?‘, Journal of Moral Philosophy 18/5 (2021), pp. 554-557.

Stilz, Anna. ‘Not In Their Name: Are Citizens Culpable for Their States’ Actions?, by Holly Lawford-Smith‘, Mind 130/517 (2021), pp. 355-363.

Pasternak, Avia. ‘Not In Their Name: Are Citizens Culpable for Their States’ Actions?‘ Journal of Social Ontology 5/2 (2020), pp. 285-288.

Prizes

An earlier version of this book won the GRIPP 2018 Annual Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Award.

Video trailers

Who’s Culpable for What The State Does? Part I: Citizens | Who’s Culpable for What The State Does? Part II: Employees & Elected Officials

Podcasts

Matthews, Beth. ‘Dr Holly Lawford-Smith: Are Citizens Culpable for States’ Actions?‘, 3CR Radical Philosophy, 4th May 2019.

Videos

JJ Joaquin, Philosophy & What Matters, Episode 17: Collective Agents with Holly Lawford-Smith (UniMelb), 26th October 2020.