According to a University of Wisconsin class syllabus, Dr. James McMaster’s Gender and Women’s Study course lists understanding “how categories such as sex, gender, sexuality and race are not naturally given but socially constructed, which does not make them any less ‘real.’”
Prof. Pernille Ipsen’s “GWS 101: Gender, Women, & Cultural Representation’s” course syllabus states that “social categories like gender, race, class & sexuality are socially constructed and are therefore understood and employed differently in specific cultural and historical contexts.”