Am I a Woman? A Skeptic's Guide to Gender
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: July 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780807075081
Subjects: Women's studies; Sociology; Sex differences (Psychology); Social Science; Gender Studies; Women's Studies - General; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Feminist theory; Sex role
Description: "In this book, Cynthia Eller delves into the twin thickets of gender theory and everyday experience to ask how we decide who is a woman, and why we find the answer important. Is a woman defined by her anatomy? Does she perceive the world differently than men? Is it her behavior that somehow marks her as inescapably female? Or is it a matter of how others evaluate her? Eller's answers demonstrate that the question is far more complicated, and its effects more pernicious, than it might at first appear."--Jacket.