Whether we consciously notice or not, doing gender is occurring everyday within our society. Every interaction we have with another individual is doing gender. This has become a part of our every day lives the same way breathing in air without realizing it. The meaning behind this is that we do gender without much thought the same way we breathe. Candace West and Don Zimmerman coined the term doing gender in an article they composed. West and Zimmerman argued that gender is something that created by the
In “Doing Gender”, by Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman, the concepts of sex and gender are discussed. Gender may at first seem like a straightforward concept that simply distinguishes males and females; however, it is actually an identity and social position gained through social and cultural interactions. Unlike sex, which distinctively groups humans based on biological characteristics, gender categorizes people based on social means. Therefore, gender can be seen as something that we do and perform
Gender is evident in the film in “Hedwig’s and Angry Inch.” There are specific scenes throughout the film where gender takes place. The social construction of gender is relatable to Hedwig’s personal and historical journey because the sex change impacted which gender role Hedwig took on. In this essay I will be relating Lorber’s article “The Social Construction of Gender” to the film “Hedwig’s and the Angry Inch”, and I will also be discussing how the fall of the Berlin Wall had an affect/impact
(Bohren et al., n.d.) ?Shut your mouth! Stop yelling and push! You knew what you were doing when you had sex, and now you see the result you?re going to cry? Try to push and yell quietly.? - a resident heard abusing a woman in labour ward. ?A nurse was attending to me, she told me I had to help, to push. At that moment I couldn?t. I was