Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET January 2026 Political Science
When Simone de Beauvoir claims 'one is not born but rather becomes a woman', she identifies gender as
AAn identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts ✓ Correct
BBiologically predetermined existence
CAn identity constituted through divine intervention in society
DA concept constructed through gambling
Correct answer: (A) An identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts — When Simone de Beauvoir says one is not born but rather becomes a woman, she identifies gender as an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts.
Explanation
★When Simone de Beauvoir says one is not born but rather becomes a woman, she identifies gender as an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts.
★The claim comes from her work The Second Sex (1949).
★Her point is that womanhood is not a fixed biological given but something made through social processes.
★This idea was later developed by Judith Butler into the notion of gender as performative, produced through repeated acts.
★Gender on this view is not biologically predetermined, divinely given, or a matter of chance.
★So an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts is the correct answer.
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