04 Book Review-Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Abstract

Butler collected the thoughts of the 20th century feminists on their gender-sex division as a means of a difference in cultural expression of gender and biological fact of sex to struggle with the assumed biological determinants of science. Gender was associated with social construction and sex with biological innate. The gender sex division was important for feminists because of their identity as a woman, and they made a distinction between sex and gender. They accepted the fact that certain bodily difference exist between women and men, but they pointed out most of the norms that determine the behaviors of men and women, in fact, social gender construction have little or nothing to do with our bodily sexes.