Abstract
Using the word 'gender' is now rather common, for instance, in official documents. This means that the concept of gender has been accepted by the whole society even if sometimes it is used without knowing the very meaning of this concept and even if gender is sometimes understood as a synonym of sex. In our essay, we will analyze gender as a specific concept, different from sex. Indeed, we will first understand gender as 'a way of referring to the social organization of the relationship between the sexes'. The text 'Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis' by Joan Wallach Scott in Feminism and History enables us to define gender. Gender seems to have first appeared among American feminists who wanted to insist on the fundamental social quality of distinctions based on sex. The word denoted a rejection of the biological determinism implicit in the use of terms such as 'sex' or 'sexual difference'.
