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{{quotebox|Feminist theory, in the mid- to late 1970s, looked at [[gender]] as a system of signs, or signifiers, assigned to sexually dimorphic bodies, which served to differentiate the [[social role]]s and [[meaning]]s those bodies could have. Feminist theory thus argued that gender was a [[social construct]], something designed and implemented and perpetuated by social organizations and structures, rather than something merely "[[true]]," something [[innate]] to the ways bodies worked on a biological level. In so doing, feminist theory made two very important contributions. The first is that feminist theory separated the social from the biological, insisting that we see a difference between what is the product of human ideas, hence something [[mutable]] and changeable, and what is the product of biology, hence something (relatively) stable and [[unchangeable]]. The second contribution is related to the first: by separating the social and the biological, the constructed and the innate, feminist theory insisted that gender was not something "essential" to an individual's [[identity]]. [http://www.colorado.edu/English/courses/ENGL2012Klages/queertheory.html]}}

Feminist theory, in the mid- to late 1970s, looked at [[gender]] as a system of signs, or signifiers, assigned to sexually dimorphic bodies, which served to differentiate the [[social role]]s and [[meaning]]s those bodies could have. Feminist theory thus argued that gender was a [[social construct]], something designed and implemented and perpetuated by social organizations and structures, rather than something merely "[[true]]," something [[innate]] to the ways bodies worked on a biological level. In so doing, feminist theory made two very important contributions. The first is that feminist theory separated the social from the biological, insisting that we see a difference between what is the product of human ideas, hence something [[mutable]] and changeable, and what is the product of biology, hence something (relatively) stable and [[unchangeable]]. The second contribution is related to the first: by separating the social and the biological, the constructed and the innate, feminist theory insisted that gender was not something "essential" to an individual's [[identity]]. [http://www.colorado.edu/English/courses/ENGL2012Klages/queertheory.html]