Practice question · True or false
The distinction between sex as biological and gender as social was introduced into sociology by Judith Butler in Gender Trouble.
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- Ask what Butler’s book actually argues about that distinction.
- The distinction was already standard in British sociology by the mid-1970s.
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False
Why
False, twice over. Oakley put the distinction into British sociology in 1972, drawing on earlier clinical usage. And Butler’s book questions the distinction rather than introducing it, arguing that the supposedly pre-social category of sex is itself produced within a gendered framework.
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