Gender (n.) is is sustained by the tacit collective agreement to perform, produce, and sustain discrete and polar genders as cultural fictions is obscured by the credibility of those productions and the punishments that attend not agreeing to believe in them.
Gender (n.) is a social artifice radically independent of sex. Our ideas of what women and men are reflect nothing that exist eternally in nature. Instead they derive from customs that embed social relations of power.
Gender (n.) is a stylized repetition of acts, a constructed identity, a performative accomplishment which the mundane social audience, including the actors themselves, come to believe and to perform in the mode of belief.
Gender (n.) is achieved through repeated acts, where the acts themselves actually constitute the gendered subject instead of expressing it, hence, 'choice' violates the very concept such that one cannot, say, decide to be a man and subvert one's identity.
Gender (n.) is constructed, but not by an 'I' or a 'we' who stands before that construction in any spatial or temporal sense of 'before.' the 'I' neither precedes nor follows the process of this gendering, but emerges only within the matrix of gender relations themselves.
Gender (n.) is not an effect caused by the body. Rather, the sexed body is a discursive effect of gendered thinking.
Gender (n.) is the effect of reiterated acting, one that produces the effect of a static or normal gender while obscuring the contradiction and instability of any single person's gender act.
Gender (n.) is the repeated stylization of the body.
Gender (n.) is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
Gender (n.) is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act, a "doing" rather than a "being".