In this chapter, Sex, Subjectivity and Representation, Barker explores sex, gender and the roles of men and women in contemporary societies. It first dictates the various feminist movements and their identifiable details. Barker goes on to explore the various facets of sex and gender and the cultural and social margins they are constructed around. What I got from this chapter is that whether it is biological predestination or through social limits, we are not really given a choice in the beginning. And whether our gender and sexual identity is already inherent in us when we are born is beyond me but I do believe from the moment we are born we are forced into a mold that is very much created for us so that we can adapt and ease into cultural expectation. From the moment we are born we are inundated with expectation and forced ideas about who we should be. Children are put in their respective gender specific themed bedrooms, the little girl is given the Barbie, the boy the race car and that’s pretty much it. Barker says, “Sexual identity is held to be not a universal biological essence but a matter of how femininity and masculinity are spoken about.” It’s not as much about how we are perceived but how we perceive ourselves and the cultural definitions that we cling to.