Doing gender
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title:
Doing gender
text:
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. According to this paper, an individual's performance of gender is intended to construct gendered behavior as naturally occurring. This façade furthers a system
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Gender studies concept
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doing_gender
date created:
2012-05-07T07:21:05Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T10:37:39Z
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