1. Like gender, sex is also a socially constructed category.
Butler (1990) argues that the concept of discrete sex categories grew out of social and political dynamics. Like gender categories, sex categories are constructed and therefore deconstructable.
2. Subjects' sex and gender identities are not a result of inner stable truths. Instead, they are performances that repeat themselves with no origin.
Gender is a performance of a performance with no original performance. Butler (1990) argues that we are constantly reaffirming our gender identity through outward demonstrations of what gender has come to mean. Society has come to understand this performance as a reflection of a true inner self, but it is actually just a repetition of what has become socially expected and acceptable.
3. The soul is the prison of the body.
Butler (1990) argues that gender constantly works on the body. Discourses of gender operate on the body to form outward expressions of gender performance and sexual identity.
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