I am an anthropologist looking at trends and the future. Her book opens with a challenge to Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 book The Second Sex, which revolutionized feminism with the idea that womanhood, as defined in western culture, is not organic to females. Not so, writes Fisher. A woman is born a woman. Fisher argues that women's brains differ from men's, structurally and functionally.
Women are contextual thinkers.
Femaleist thinking celebrates sex differences and sees power in menopause. It is body-proud and takes a revisionist look at the history of human evolution, sex roles and sexual instincts. Fisher differs from her colleagues here in several ways. Most intriguingly though, she claims to have no political agenda whatsoever. She is tiny and extremely thin, spotlessly dressed for an upcoming television appearance.