The phrase "construct gender" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the ways in which gender is socially constructed and not necessarily tied to biological sex. For example, you might say, "The traditional binary of male and female gender has been challenged as gender is increasingly seen as a social construction rather than something predetermined."
But which social practices construct gender, what social construction is and what being of a certain gender amounts to are major feminist controversies.
Researchers delve into the discourses that construct gender, race, and class.
We will investigate how youth construct gender and ethnic identities as they negotiate notions of African Diasporic belonging vis-à-vis hip hop.
Drawing on the fields of anthropology of education and feminist studies, we examine how girls and young women construct gender identities and ways of knowing through prisms of race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, language, nation and citizenship.
Considering analyses of African American, Caribbean, Asian-American, South African, and Latino interactions with hip hop, the course will investigate how youth construct gender and ethnic identities as they negotiate notions of African Diasporic belonging vis-à-vis hip hop.
Not only do religious rituals, bodily practices, and discursive performatives construct gender but they also construct the very objects of religious belief.
Director and choreographer Charlotte Vincent places her cast of eight four adults and four children into various scenarios highlighting how kids construct gendered identities by observing the behavior of grownups.
Pornography is not countercultural when it is mainstreamed, and it is not transgressive when it reinforces stale socially constructed gender roles.
We also need a huge shift in attitudes to understand how socially constructed gender and the objectification of women is both a cause and consequence of inequality between the sexes.
Female engineers also need to learn to embrace their identity complexity — the fact that they may hold both feminine and scientific values — rather than trying to force themselves into socially constructed gender or engineering boxes.
We begin with the importance of radio in the home and how it constructed gender, race, and the city through serial thrillers, especially the Green Hornet and the Shadow.
