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Gender and sexuality: A changing part of a changing mechanism
The contest over biological versus cultural interpretation of sexual and gender identities
To try to understand and analyze human sexuality is not an easy task. ... Even the concept itself of identity, as far as gender and sexuality are concerned, is questioned by some theorists, Foucault included. ... Butler argued that gender is not a fixed attribute in a person but it should be seen as a fluid variable which shifts and changes in different contexts and at different times (Gender trouble 1990). In other words, gender is a performance; it is what we do at particular times, rather than an identity. She says that we all put on a gender performance, either traditional or modern and so our gender identity does not express some authentic inner ‘core’ self but it is the effect of this performance. ...
My argument is that gender and sexuality are part of the reproductive mechanism of human societies as biological species. ... These perceptions remain dominant even in today’s context of changing attitudes toward sexual and gender identity and despite also the great number of alternative images that are presented in popular culture.
Approximate Word count = 1021
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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