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Doing Gender
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The purpose of this article is to advance a new understanding of gender as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction. To do so entails a critical assessment of existing perspectives on sex and gender and the introduction of important distinctions among sex, sex category, and gender. We argue that recognition of the analytical independence of these concepts is essential for understanding the interactional work involved in being a gendered person in society. The thrust of our remarks is toward theoretical reconceptualization, but we consider fruitful directions for empirical research that are indicated by our formulation.
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“and in so doing 'simultaneously sustain, reproduce, and render legitimate the institutional arrangements that are based on sex category' (West and Zimmerman 1987, 146).”
From Gendering Reciprocity: Solving a Puzzle of Nonreciprocation (2013) · cites this paper as West and Zimmerman 1987
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“we concur with West and Zimmerman's view that men and women must continually 'do' gender in order to assert their membership of a sex category (West and Zimmerman 1987, 127)”
From Gendering Reciprocity: Solving a Puzzle of Nonreciprocation (2013) · cites this paper as West and Zimmerman 1987
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“Gender Theory (e.g., West and Zimmerman 1987) suggests that gender is central to family roles and behavior of both parents and children.”
From Perceived Quality of the Mother–Adolescent and Father–Adolescent Attachment Relationship and Adolescents’ Self-Esteem (2019) · cites this paper as West and Zimmerman 1987
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“Theories of gender (e.g., West and Zimmerman 1987) suggest that societal beliefs systems encourage females to be supportive and interdependent and males are urged to be competitive and solve problems.”
From Perceived Quality of the Mother–Adolescent and Father–Adolescent Attachment Relationship and Adolescents’ Self-Esteem (2019) · cites this paper as West and Zimmerman 1987
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“It is the constant iteration of such practices that cumulatively produce not only each individual's gender identity, but gender itself as a socially meaningful system (Butler, 1990; West and Zimmerman, 1987).”
From Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach (2005) · cites this paper as West and Zimmerman, 1987
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“In this way, the distinction between sex as a stable biologically given category (nature) and gender as culturally constructed (nurture) ( see Nature/Nurture Controversy, History of) is openly contested, announcing the arrival of deconstructivist approach to gender in sociology.”
From Gender: Gendering of Categories (2015) · cites this paper as West and Zimmerman, 1987
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“Girls and women, then, do gender by demonstrating conventionally feminine characteristics (West and Zimmerman, 1987).”
From Femininities (2015) · cites this paper as West and Zimmerman, 1987
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- Authors
- WEST, C., & ZIMMERMAN, D. H.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- Venue
- Gender & Society
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1987-06
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 125-151
- ISSN
- 0891-2432 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3977
- OpenAlex
- W4229864382
- Cited by
- 8,954
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 21.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Gender & Society (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Keywords
- everyday interaction, sex, sex categories, gender, interactional work
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