Social Constructivism: Are Gender & Sex Socially Constructed?

In this blog post, I will analyze Judith Butler’s treatise, Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions, and Fausto Sterling’s essay, Should There Be Only Two Sexes? in order to answer the question as to whether sex is socially constructed.

First, I will look at gender and conclude that it is malleable and then explain the reasons why sex is similar to gender in performance and expression but different in that the biological component is not entirely open to society’s influence as much as gender is.