Gender and everyday

Kath Woodward and Sophie Woodward

Chapter 2 in Gender Studies, 2025, pp 22-40 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter explores gender and everyday life through consideration of both the practices and institutions that constitute everyday gender. In doing so we draw on Strathern's theories of gender as a relation as this is a particularly instructive route into thinking about both the relations of gender as well as how these relations are enmeshed in broader social relations. We think about this in terms of masculinity and femininity and the relations between the two as a route into thinking about and exemplifying these gender relations. In doing so we position anthropological accounts of gender (Strathern), in relation to media studies analyses of contemporary social media, as well as philosophical (Butler) accounts of gender performativity. Butler's theories are particularly useful when considered through the lens of Strathern's anthropological account and as such allow us to build a better methodological approach. We argue that thinking about gender as a relation is one that indicates the importance of thinking about multiple disciplinary approaches to gender. The chapter moves towards thinking about the everyday in terms of institutions, regulations and inequalities which are developed in the next chapter of the book.

Keywords: Gender; Stereotypes; Ethnography; Butler; Strathern; Gender performativity; Social media (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800373945
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