Anthropology › Section L · Gender and sexuality › Topic L.2
Performing gender categories
If gender is not simply dictated by biology, how does it come to feel so natural? Anthropologists study how gender is learned, practised and policed every day, how men's lives are gendered too, and how many societies have recognised more than two gender categories.
In this topic
- Essentialism and naturalisation
- Mead's three societies
- Gender as performance
- Feminist anthropology and the public sphere
- Intersectionality
- Men and masculinities
- Worked example: Aka fathers
- More than two genders
- Hijras of South Asia
- Worked example: naming the concept
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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