"An absolute must read for anyone who wants to understand how quickly women’s rights can be dismantled and how brave this disparate group of women were l"

"A collection of essays which, in the main, chronicle the grassroots opposition to, and the SNP’s fixation on, the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, and its jaw-droppingly undemocratic passage through Holyrood (it was eventually blocked by Whitehall), and the Adam Graham/Isla Bryson debacle that showed up the bill for how flawed, unscientific and potentially threatening to women’s safety it was.

But the book is also about the strange times we live in, where ideology is permitted a stranglehold on empirical facts, language is bastardised and shorn of meaning to suit the needs of echo-chamber agendas.

How thinktanks and pressure groups stifle meaningful political debate, infiltrate academia and cultivate a culture of fear to dissuade dissenters.

How the internet can be a tool of hate-mongers and bullies, but also a means by which the grassroots can organise.

How identifying as female doesn’t stop men from doing what men have always sought to do: silence women.

And how, ultimately, there is no greater force than women bonding together in common purpose. "