Assertion: sexual activity | /r/HasProperty | social construct
Facets:
value: for butler
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: First, the idea that sex is a social construct, for Butler, boils down to the view that our sexed bodies are also performative and, so, they have “no ontological status apart from the various acts which constitute [their] reality” (1999, 173).
text: Butler makes two different claims in the passage cited: that sex is a social construction, and that sex is gender.