Butler claims that gender is a mechanism that regulates and produces masculine and feminine behaviors. The sharp distinction between sex and gender is a logical result of a regulatory fiction. Rather then separating sex from gender, she treats them as part of the selfsame patriarchal and heterosexist formula for domination. Butler s notion of naturalization. I m concerned here mostly with sex, because it the site of multiple assumptions and complications in any thinking of gender.
Sex is understood as unaffected by outside culture.
Sexual politics results in women s oppression personally and publicly. This concept creates a broad foundation for the women s movement. Patriarchy dominates and oppresses women on multiple levels. Eve brought on human plights and suffering. In answering the question she broadens the notion of politics to include all power-structured relationships rather then the narrowly defined reference to board meetings, parties and elections.