Doing Gender By West Zimmerman Summary

While many have mixed emotions on gender and gender doing, it is quite obvious that many of us have learned that the relationship between biological and cultural processes predict how we label gender. In many cases people fail to distinguish between sex and gender, forbidding to come to the realization that gender is an achieved status that we constrict for ourselves. A very interesting discussion regarding Agnes experience on the article Doing Gender by West and Zimmerman really proves how society does expect specific sex to do gender as they think it is considered appropriate or “normal” for that sex. I’m sure that the transition of adopting a female identity was tough process for Agnes because of societal expectations, but at the same time