| Am I a Woman?: A Skeptic's Guide to Gender Contributor(s): Eller, Cynthia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807075094 ISBN-13: 9780807075098 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $17.82 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2004 Annotation: What is it that really makes a woman a woman? Is it anatomy? Does she behave differently than men? Does it matter how others perceive her? In this sharp, funny, and insightful book, Cynthia Eller discovers that the answer is harder to pinpoint than it might seem. "Reading Cynthia Eller's latest book is like having a spirited late-night talk with a close friend. . . . Eller's conversational tone demystifies the statistics and will leave readers of either gender questioning the roles we so readily assume each day." --Elle.com "Why should this [book] matter? Because, Eller writes, only 14 percent of Congress is female; few among the Fortune 500 CEOs are women; a woman's right to an abortion is still under attack and 683,000 rapes occur each year in the United States." --Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times "Eller . . . hits the bulls-eye with brilliant, amusing truisms about the sexes." --Janet Sassi, Library Journal |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| LCCN: 2003002564 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.26" W x 8.12" (0.45 lbs) 146 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
