Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings.
Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism (ed. Routledge, 2014) - ISBN: 9781317695950