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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."
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, gender 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 ...
The crusade against “Gender Queer” has largely driven its popularity and increased the size of Kobabe's royalty checks. The memoir has sold more than 96,000 copies and has been translated into ...
She is interested in how people's lives are structured by gender. [3] She did a lot of qualitative studies about couples who have established equality at home, or not. [3] In reference to the article by Candace West and Zimmerman, Doing Gender, [4] she did a reflection about how to undo gender in everyday life in her article Undoing Gender. [5]
This is a partial list of notable people who were or are gay men, lesbian or bisexual. The historical concept and definition of sexual orientation varies and has changed greatly over time; for example the general term "gay" wasn't used to describe sexual orientation until the mid 20th century. A number of different classification schemes have ...
The reason for the popularity of Tannen's book You Just Don't Understand, and the resultant popularization of the difference model, [8] [9] is generally attributed to the style of Tannen's work, in which she adopts a neutral position on differences in genderlect by making no value-judgements about use of language by either gender. Talbot ...