· Why can it be argued that "gender" is not a noun (Judith Butler 1999:3 )?
             "Gender is always a doing, though not a doing by a subject who might be said to preexist the deed... There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results."(1999:25) This prominent argument presents Butler's assumption: gender is not a noun, in her acclaimed book Gender Trouble.
             Gender Trouble became Butler‘s masterpiece regarding to the understanding of the real meaning of gender. Her outstanding career has given her the ability to get us involve in diverse topics related to gender.
             It may sound foolish, but rational speaking, as we all know, a noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, or an abstract idea, nevertheless, by analysing the meaning of gender, we find out that is not classified in any of these categories, what take us to consider Butler‘s statement.
             Normally we would refer to gender as sex, still gender denotes cultural behaviour attributes assigned to females and males, creating a cultural essence of what is feminine or masculine. Leading us to Butler‘s argument: "It would make no sense, then, to define gender as the cultural interpretation of sex, if sex itself is a gendered category... gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is also the discursive/cultural means by which "sexed nature" or a "natural sex" is produced and established as "prediscursive", prior to culture, a politically neutral surface on which culture acts".
             Gender cannot be defined by the body itself, is formed by our own self-determination point of view, which is not based in a predetermined biological state. In simple words, gender consists in the things we do and the way we think about ourselves, not in the biologically sex designated at birth. Nevertheless, ...