ABSTRACT
Feminist theory uses gender as a lens through which the social world can be examined and critiqued. Feminist theory makes descriptive claims, such as that gender is socially constructed, variable, and ubiquitous in human life, that sex and gender are different, non-overlapping categories, and that women and men live segregated lives, and have unequal access to power, income, and wealth. Feminist theory is not focused entirely on gender or sex, however, because these categories cut across other social groups and identities and affect those observations. This intersectionality of identities constructs different categories of genders, though “women” and “men” remain coherent cluster concepts.
