In Am I a Woman? Cynthia Eller takes the reader on a very personal and very readable tour through these ideas, seeing how they apply them to her own life and to the lives of the people around her – friends and parents, like herself, watching their young children behave in seemingly ‘male’ or ‘female’ ways. Because Eller’s great gift as a writer is an extraordinarily clear mind and prose style, she makes these sometimes abstruse ideas, and their implications for our own lives, very clear.