ABSTRACT
The study of gender is connected to the social movement most widely known as feminism, and feminism is an important component of language and gender. More changes in the political movement came about as a new generation discovered that there was still plenty of gender discrimination and gender-based power imbalance in the US and the world. Fausto-Sterling shows that there are many ways in which humans are born with combinations of chromosomes, genitals, and other biological traits which make putting them into one of the two usual sex categories impossible. Desire and sexual activity can be very private, to the point that a sexual orientation may not be the same thing as a sexual identity. The distinction between these two types of categories of sexuality is essentially what gives rise to terms such as ‘the closet,’ in which someone who has a particular sexual orientation does not manifest it as a sexual identity.
