Doing gender: Difference between revisions

'''Doing Gender''' is an article by [[Candace West]] and Don Zimmerman published in 1987 in ''[[Gender and Society]]''.<ref name="Doing Gender" /> According to this paper, an individual's performance of gender is intended to construct gendered behavior as naturally occurring.<ref name="West and Zimmerman 2009" /> This façade furthers a system through which individuals are judged in terms of their failure or success to meet gendered societal expectations, called the accountability structure. The concept of doing gender was later expanded by authors such as West and Fenstermaker in the book ''Doing Gender, Doing Difference'' by West with Sarah Fenstermaker.