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In psychology, sociology and gender studies, "doing gender" is the idea that gender, rather than being an innate quality of individuals, is a social construct that actively surfaces in everyday human interaction. This term was used by Candace West and Don Zimmerman in their article "Doing Gender", published in 1987 in Gender and Society. [1]
The term first appeared in Candace West and Don Zimmerman's article "Doing Gender", published in the peer-reviewed journal, Gender and Society. [74] Originally written in 1977 but not published until 1987, [75] "Doing Gender" is the most cited article published in Gender and Society. [74]
Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman developed an interactionist perspective on gender beyond its construction of "roles." [48] For them, gender is "the product of social doings of some sort undertaken by men and women whose competence as members of society is hostage to its production."
Only 4% of all healthcare research and development in the U.S. is specifically targeted at women’s health issues. All this contributes to a sizeable global health gap.
Gender is used as a means of describing the distinction between the biological sex and socialized aspects of femininity and masculinity. [9] According to West and Zimmerman, is not a personal trait; it is "an emergent feature of social situations: both as an outcome of and a rationale for various social arrangements, and as a means of legitimating one of the most fundamental divisions of society."
Using the case study of Agnes, a transsexual raised as a boy until the age of 17, from Harold Garfinkel’s “Studies in Ethnomethodology”, West and Zimmerman demonstrate the difference between sex, sex category, and gender. West, C., & Zimmerman, D. H. (2009). Accounting for doing gender. Gender and Society, 23(1), 112–122.
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