Unveiling Gender: Wollstonecraft, Butler, and the Pursuit of Human Worth

Name Institutional Affiliations Date Wollstonecraft’s idea of Sex and Butler’s notion of Gender Introduction All human beings are assigned specific sex at birth. One can define sex as the natural and biological characteristic that defines a human as either a male or a female or both at birth. The physical identity of sex is the penis or a vagina that any human being may naturally have at birth. On the other hand, Gender is a person's internal perception that enables an individual to identify with gender characteristics that match or are contrary to the sex one is assigned at birth. For this reason, one can conclude that sex is a biologically defined feature assigned to a person at birth. At the same time, Gender remains a socially constructed feature that a person identifies with from an internal perception. The need to analyze what it means to "do" or "perform" Gender will help understand how Wollstonecraft and Butler viewed and argued sex and Gender as two different terms that help shape the character of many humans. However, regardless of the distinctness of sex and Gender, both Wollstonecraft and Butler believed that the laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being regardless of sex distinction. According to Wollstonecraft (2014), Gender is a socially constructed notion or a belief that makes society perceive women inferior. Unfortunately, young girls believe that the only gender identity that best defines them is emulating their mothers, whom the society renders inferior, thus shaping