Do you believe that gender is a performance? If so, how do you perform gender? If not, how do you characterize gender (is it a category, a state of being, etc.)?
This is one tiny observation regarding gender performance, but I've always been fascinated by how people sit. It can be a bodily expression of gender. I've always been taught to keep "feminine" seating positions (crossing legs, good posture, etc.). It frustrates me that sitting any other way is automatically classified as "unladylike." I think it's wild that something so simple as sitting has the power to characterize gender.
This is one tiny observation regarding gender performance, but I've always been fascinated by how people sit. It can be a bodily expression of gender. I've always been taught to keep "feminine" seating positions (crossing legs, good posture, etc.). It frustrates me that sitting any other way is automatically classified as "unladylike." I think it's wild that something so simple as sitting has the power to characterize gender.