An underexplored aspect concerns how men can do and undo gender to support or hinder gender equality processes in organizations. In West and Zimmerman’s article, they discuss that gender is not something that we are, but it is… These things being said, Undoing Gender serves its aim of providing a hypothetical situation where people need not abide with gender restrictions. ... • Gender norms can be changed by institutions, as illustrated by the 41-year experience ... Deutsch (2007, p 106-107) regretted that "[..] doing gender has become a theory of gender persistence and the inevitability of inequality". Chapter 8 illustrates the mechanism in which gender can be deconstructed based on two househusbands’ families. The present article questions whether and to what extent daughters and sons learn how to “do gender” in housework in Italy, a country with low levels of societal gender equality. Undoing Gender és un llibre publicat l'any 2004 per la filòsofa Judith Butler.Influenciat per i contribuint a les “New gender politics”, es dirigeix a pensar l'existència dels individus transgènere, transsexuals i intersexuals, així com la relació d'aquesta amb la teoria feminista i la teoria queer. It’s Robin Ely and Debra E. Meyerson’s "An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms." Listen to the podcast. 14–15. ” Undoing gender is a concept first introduced by Butler (2004) and recently offered with a slightly different twist to Gender & Society readers by Deutsch (2007). I recently read an article that I’m recommending to all of my colleagues and will adopt for my graduate seminar next year. It is methodologically exciting—they performed a case study of two offshore oil platforms in… Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. This study provides a cautionary tale to the celebrations of undoing gender for women combat sports athletes. Doing Gender. gender oppression is maintained, arguing that it is important also to high light the "undoing" of gender to further the feminist project of disman tling gender inequality (Deutsch 2007). the appearance of gender difference, which can facilitate systemic transformation by undermining the internalized norms that legitimate gender hierarchy (Deutsch 2007). On February 26, 2020, Francine Deutsch gave a Lecture at Sciences Po as part of PRESAGE 10 years celebration. undoing gender (Deutsch, 2007; Risman, 2004). Sage Publications, Inc. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Gender and Society. This article studies 28 dual-income Spanish childless couples who were undoing gender in routine domestic work. Gender and Society, 1(2): 125-151. We understand ‘undoing gender’ as defined by Deutsch [(2007). I build on Deutsch’s work by showing how doing gender research would be improved by more attention to undoing gender. Work Cited. Francine Deutsch’s profile on Mount Holyoke College website; Francine Deutsch’s 2007 paper: Undoing Gender; Francine Deutsch’s book “Halving It All. Gender and the Communication of Gratitude in Jordan Nisreen Naji Al-Khawaldeh, Vladimir Žegarac DOI: 10.4236/ojml.2013.33035 3,586 Downloads 5,755 Views Citations 1. Keywords doing and undoing gender, gender and innovation, gender in organizations, innovation, masculinities and femininities, positions of displacement, practising gender References Acker, J ( 1990 ) Hierarchies, jobs, bodies: A theory of gendered organizations . Undoing gender. Get this from a library! Butler, Judith. Drawing on feminist beliefs in the significance of experiential evidence, the paper examines the possibilities of exploring gender and its multiple intersections in a range of global and policy contexts through the use of personal experience She received her BA from Carnegie-Mellon University and her Ph.D. in social psychology from Columbia University, and has been teaching at Mount Holyoke since 1981. This suggests that the reduction of gender difference in daily life, especially for highly gendered tasks such as housework In response, West and Zimmerman (2009) have argued that gender can never be "undone," but might instead be "redone." [Judith Butler] -- Butler addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy. Such a lens on doing and undoing gender is … Next, I discuss empirical work on the division of housework among same-sex couples. I use the term ‘(un)doing gender’ (Deutsch 2007) to make sense of the ways in which gender plays a role in producing (in)security and fear. Undoing Gender. Gender & Society, 21, 106–127, p. 122]: ‘social interactions that reduce gender 106-127 Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. 2 Undoing Gender RT9239_INT.qxd 6/25/04 12:52 PM Page 2. and will it be recognizable to the others upon whom I depend for social existence? 消解性别 = Undoing gender /Xiao jie xing bie = Undoing gender Array , Array , Array , Array Ben shu zuo zhe kao cha le luan lun jin ji de yi yi he mu de,Xin xing qin shu guan xi,Xing bie kua yue,Shuang xing,Xing bie zhen duan he bian xing shou shu deng wen ti,Jiang dui xing bie gui fan de pi pan zhi yu ren lei sheng cun yu yan xu de kuang jia zhi nei. Undoing gender. Undoing Gender addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy. The chapter begins with a different role perceptions for househusbands versus housewives as stay-at-home parents. 1. (2007). Undoing Gender with Institutions. West, C., & Zimmerman, D.H. (1987). Undoing gender. ... Deutsch, F.M. At the same time, it also seeks to dissolve our notions towards gender, thereby preempting us from taking the first step towards gender enlightenment. 1 (Feb., 2007), pp. 21, No. While research on gender in organizations has not only documented sustained gender inequality, it has also offered an understanding of how gender is enacted through doing and undoing gender. What do you think some of these norms and practices may be; that is, what * The author is with the Department of Sociology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA. Francine Deutsch (2007) acknowledges Judith Butler’s book with the same title but explains that she was not aware of Butler’s work and had been working on this article for a number of years.I focus on Deutsch’s use of the term ‘undoing’ gender for the reason only that it aligns with my own theoretical interests more fully than Bulter’s work. 2. from David to brenda: rhetoric: With hormones and the proper upbringing David could be raised a female - Brenda The assumption what that Brenda could grow up and achieve a sense of female identity and feel "normal" Brenda became a subject to scientific studies Brenda became a The focus of ethnomethodological studies is on how gender is enacted in a situation and very few authors have thought systematically about what undoing gender might look like from this perspective (Deutsch, 2007; Hirschauer, 1994, 2001). Gender and Society, 21(1): 106-127. While these shifts in gender ideologies and constructions can be seen as facilitating social change as Deutsch (2007) indicates in her ‘‘undoing gender’’ framework, it is also important to mention some of the limitations of the data and literature that indicate that the tools relied upon by the Umutende School may be questionable for promoting long-term social change towards gender equity. undoing gender is employed by Deutsch (2007), who distinguishes between doing gender as creating gender difference and undoing gender as reducing gender difference. Butler and Sedgwick depart on the degree to which it is preferable conceptually and strategically to treat gender and sexuality together. Doing gender is then understood as creating gender difference while undoing … Deutsch, F. (2007). Undoing Gender - Francine M. Deutsch, 2007 Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. Undoing Gender. Butler points out that the intelligibility of the human being, how we understand who we are, relates to "conditions of intelligibility composed of norms, of practices that have become presuppositional." Undoing Gender Author(s): Francine M. Deutsch Source: Gender and Society, Vol. For example, Butler, Undoing Gender, 1, 15.Butler, Undoing Gender, 54; cf. In terms that draw from feminist and queer 消解性别 = Undoing gender /Xiao jie xing bie = Undoing gender Array , Array , Array , Array Ben shu zuo zhe kao cha le luan lun jin ji de yi yi he mu de,Xin xing qin shu guan xi,Xing bie kua yue,Shuang xing,Xing bie zhen duan he bian xing shou shu deng wen ti,Jiang dui xing bie gui fan de pi pan zhi yu ren lei sheng cun yu yan xu de kuang jia zhi nei. Rating: (not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first. This article, Undoing Gender, is related to the article Doing Gender by West and Zimmerman. How Equally Shared Parenting Works” (1999) 253, nn. While the former leads to gender inequality the latter leads to gender equality. Abstract. Francine M. Deutsch is a Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College, the first of the seven sisters colleges to enroll students. issues of gender, education and social justice and particularly insights into ‘undoing gender’. 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