Symbolic Interactionism and "Doing Gender"
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West and Zimmerman's "doing gender" holds that gender is something a person performs moment to moment, not a fixed trait a person has.
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A loan applicant may present numbers to a male officer and intentions to a female one, appealing to the traits each symbol carries.
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Performing gender is not a choice made freely from nothing; the available scripts are socially supplied.
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