How Do They Differ from Other Authors?



While reading Asta’s work I found it hard to understand at some points and found that I was slightly confused. However, after reading her work I think that she is trying to argue that gender is something that we are born with and not something that our society has created. Many of the other authors that we have read have argued that gender is created by our society. In other terms that we are not born with a gender and rather that our surroundings are what helps us identify ourselves and in turn create a gender. Asta argues that married people are normally legally married but some people who are not married and call themselves married even though it is not legal. Meaning that society is going to say they are not married and the perception of how we identify ourselves is great but people are going to treat you how they perceive you to be. I struggle with this concept as I am not fully convinced this is accurate. I think that I agree with some of the other authors that we read that gender is a social construct and there are parts of Asta’s argument that I agree with but I am not sure that she thinks that gender is a social construct  at all. This makes it very different from the other authors that we have read thus far in the semester.

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