The Invention of Gender

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The Invention of Gender
Women Born Transsexual
By Suzan
22 July, 2010


http://womenborntranssexual.com/2010/07/22/the-invention-of-gender/


I actually place the invention of the modern hegemonic usage of gender as occurring in the 1980s.  I am not surprised to locate it during a period of reactionary misogyny as I tend to see the entire present ubiquity of using gender as a substitute for sex to be a reassertion of patriarchal dominance that had been challenged by second wave feminism's critique of "sex roles".

For the last 15 years or so I have repeatedly heard the phrase "gender binary" used as though that phrase describes something real rather than sets of social constructs.