Objective: Explain Judith Butler's concept of gender performativity

Key Points-

Social constructionism is the notion that people's understanding of reality is partially, if not entirely, socially situated.

Gender is a social identity that needs to be contextualized.

Individuals internalize social expectations for gender norms and behave accordingly.

Terms-

Social constructionism:

The idea that social institutions and knowledge are created by actors within the system, rather than having any inherent truth on their own.

Gender performativity:

Gender Performativity is a term created by post-structuralist feminist philosopher Judith Butler in her 1990 book Gender Trouble, which has subsequently been used in a variety of academic fields that describes how individuals participate in social constructions of gender.

Essentialism:

The view that objects have properties that are essential to them.