gender performance
Enacted social identity
Gender performance is the idea that gender is not an innate quality but something people enact through behavior, dress, speech, and mannerisms.
The concept, from academic gender theory, treats masculinity and femininity as roles people learn and repeat rather than natural expressions of biological sex.
Her gender performance shifted depending on the social context.
The related term gender performativity emphasizes that these repeated acts constitute gender identity itself.
- dress codesSartorial behavior requirements
- masculinityMale gender characteristics
- soft butchAndrogynous lesbian, masculine-leaning
- passingMoving by or temporary
- body languageUnspoken physical expression
femininity · high femme · speech patterns · camp · subversion · gestures · drag · queer theory · patriarchy · feminist theory · heteronormativity · mannerisms · walking the walk · socialization · enactment · intersectionality · spectacle · presentation
- gendermale, female, masculine, feminine, man
- performanceballet, theatre, acting, circus, concert
- drag culturedrag queens, drag shows, drag balls, drag race, drag artists
- gender rolesmasculinity, femininity, traditional roles, domestic roles, family roles
gender performancebiological sex
Organism's reproductive classification
gender performanceinstinctive behavior
Actions done without learning