Adapting the doing gender argument to doing race, i argue that. Doing gender involves a complex of socially guided perceptual, interactional, and. Zimmerman in doing gender 1987, published in gender and society. The concept was later expanded by west and sarah fenstermaker in doing gender, doing difference. The purpose of this article is to advance a new understanding of gender as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction. How race and gender shaped american citizenship and labor doing gender, doing difference is a major contribution to the gender field. Doing gender, doing difference fenstermaker sarah curatore. Candace west, sarah fenstermaker, 2002, accountability in action. Pdf doing justice doing gender download ebook full pdf. Your use of the jstor archive indicates your acceptance of. Symposium on west and fenstermakers doing difference. Accomplishment and accountability the interactionist approach to gender as accomplishment west and fenstermaker 1993, 1995.
In doing gender, west and zimmerman advance a sociological approach to gender as a routine accomplishment embedded in. While west and fenstermaker imply that manipulating difference. West,zimmerman doing gender 127 focus on behavioral aspects of being a woman or a man as opposed, for example, to biological differences between the two. As khor 2007 argues, they are doing gender but less in the sense of conforming to gender expectations as in the sense of constructing new norms for. Social inequality, power, and institutional change 2002. West and fenstermaker 1995 elaborated on west and zimmermans doing gender in doing difference. Sociology of gender qualifying examination reading list. This is because, as west and fenstermaker 1995 stress, doing difference is an ongoing interactional accomplishment, where accountability to gender and other norms is judged according to speci. How race and gender shaped american citizenship and labor doing gender, doing difference is a major contribution to the gender. On west and fenstermakers doing gender, doing difference. For the first time the anthologized works of sarah fenstermaker and candace west have been collected along with new essays to. It is virtually ignored in feminist sociolinguistics, where the majority of research gets done and is.
But the terms that make up ones own gender are, from the start, out. In this paper, i consider the potential of membership categorisation analysis, an empirical tool in ethnomethodological inquiry, for language and gender researchers. Doing difference is a concept that grew out of the authors earlier idea of doing gender, presented at the american sociological association in 1977 by candace west and don zimmerman and published in gender and society in 1987. A second elaboration of garfinkels work was developed n the doing gender theory ofi sociologists west, zimmerman and sarah fenstermaker.
West, zimmerman doing gender 127 focus on behavioral aspects of being a woman or a man as opposed, for example, to biological differences between the two. West and zimmerman 1987 provides a power ful framework for understanding what i heard about gender nonconformity in my interviews with parents of young children. Article subject areas sociology, psychology, gender and sexuality disciplines. West, fenstermaker doing difference 9 references to gender, race, and class as intersecting systems, as interlocking categories, and as multiple bases for oppression. Gender work and family reading list january 20 page 4 of 19 hartmann, heidi. Thus, doing gender is a process executed by individuals, but it is also a process that simultaneously reaches beyond the scope of individuals. As khor 2007 argues, they are doing gender but less in the sense of conforming to gender expectations as in the sense of constructing new norms for themselves, and being at the same time.
Bibliography includes bibliographical references p. Power, inequality and the accomplishment of gender. What became known as the doing gender approach emphasized ongoing negotiations and interactions in the socialorder. For the first time the anthologized works of sarah fenstermaker and candace west have been collected along with new essays to provide a complete understanding of this topic of tremendous importance to. Sarah fenstermaker spring, 2008 1202 diana lane isber. Doing gender in the a new officea wiley online library. A study on the status of women faculty in science at mit. One is always doing with or for another, even if the other is only imaginary.
Quiz 2 west and zimmerman and west doing gender and. How doing gender leads to gender imbalances in the. Wilson, and most espectally, sarah fenstermaker berk. The authors explained that by taking into consideration race, class, and gender, a more thorough understanding of. 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. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the american sociological association, august, washington, dc. With the publication of doing difference, west and fenstermaker 1995 extended our ethnomethodological perspective to provide an under standing of how gender, race and class operate simultaneously with one. Many studies of doing gender have taken up west and zimmermans 2009 suggestion that the.
West and zimmerman, in 1987, first presented the concept of doing gender as a contrast. Candace west and don zimmerman introduced the concept doing gender in an article of the same title in 1987. With the publication of doing difference, west and fenstermaker. West and fenstermaker argued there are more complex mechanisms that can explain and produce social inequality. By doing gender, people actively manage social interactions in light of normative expectations fenstermaker berk 1985. Doing gender, doing class the performance of sexuality. This term was used by candace west and don zimmerman in their article doing gender, published in 1987 in gender and society. West and zimmerman 1987, and 2 attention to the interlocking systems of race, class, and gender espiritu 1997. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Sarah fenstermaker is professor of sociology and womens studies at the university of california, santa barbara, and is the author of the gender factory.
However, we contend that the notion of gender as a role obscures the work that is involved in producing gender in everyday activities, while the notion. In theory on gender feminism on theory, edited by paula england. Committee on women faculty in the school of science at mit 1999. Candace west is professor of sociology at the university of california, santa cruz. A theory of gender maintenance faced with the criticism that doing gender is a theory of gender confor mity weber 2002. In theory on genderfeminism on theory, edited by paula england. Question mathematical and geometric understandings of. Doctors doing gender at eye clinicsgender constructions in. Pdf doing justice doing gender download book full free. However, the use of any such source as a manual of procedure requires. Start studying quiz 2 west and zimmerman and west doing gender and fenstermaker readings doing difference.
What i call my own gender appears perhaps at times as something that i author or, indeed, own. To date, there has been no sustained attempt to incorporate this kind of approach into gender and language work. West and zimmerman 1987 provides a powerful framework for understanding what i heard about gender nonconformity. Caring about food doing gender in the foodie kitchen. This theoretical body of work examines what has come to be. In the same anthology, we may find some chapters that conceive of gender, race, and class as distinct axes and others that conceive of them as concentric ones. Thus she criticizes west and fenstermaker for promising to show such relationships, but eventually ignoring the interlocking systems of oppression and institutional power, as well as not illustrating a vivid picture of intersectionality of race, gender and class in their article. Within the concept of doing gender, gender is perceived as something that people do in their everyday social interactions. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Fenstermaker and west offer an inspiring model of how theorybuilding might and should proceed, through dialogue with other scholars and creative empirical work. In sociology and gender studies, doing gender is the idea that in western culture, gender, rather than being an innate quality of individuals, is a psychologically ingrained social construct that actively surfaces in everyday human interaction. Gender studies qualifying exams as well as other gender studies reading lists are. Doctors doing gender at eye clinicsgender constructions.
West and zimmerman 1987, scholars find that workers in a wide range of occupations and organizations do gender in particular ways, based on assumptions about what customers like. Doing difference as interactional, extends previous applications of gender to relationships of race, class, and gender. Doing justice doing gender available for download and read online in other formats. The ones marked may be different from the article in the profile. Doing gender, doing class the performance of sexuality in. Doing gender has become a theory of conformity and gender conventionality, albeit of multiple forms of conventionality. This theoretical body of work examines what has come to be termed doing gender west and zimmerman. Bibliographies subfolder for approved specialized topic reading lists from previous gender studies exams from 20062019. In doing gender, west and zimmerman advance a sociological approach to gender as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction. Pdf doing gender the sage encyclopedia of psychology and. Household labor and the routine production of gender.
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