Synopses & Reviews
In this smart, intimate, and conversational 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.
About the Author
Cynthia Eller is author of The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory and Living in the Lap of the Goddess. She is assistant professor of women and religion at Montclair State University in New Jersey.