Descripción:
The article analyses the gender identity from an anthropological view, that is, as a historical and social process. It questions the basis of bi-categorical thinking which includes sex and gender in two exclusive categories: man/women. From this two categories sex and gender is considered universal when in fact, there are a great number of examples which show different views and experiences concerning sex and gender. The author establishes a notion of gender identity as a strategy of symbolic representation and resistance that opposes the social form and behavior imposed to the individual due to sexism which as in racism, is based in making the biological differences absolute, and turns gender into the motor for power of one sex against the other.