Doing Gender
Definition
The idea, drawn from sociologists Candace West and Don Zimmerman, that gender is not a fixed trait but an ongoing accomplishment produced through interaction and held accountable to others.
Related terms
- Gender-Ratio Problem
- The question of why women are consistently arrested, convicted and imprisoned far less often than men across almost every society and offence...
- Generalizability Problem
- The question of whether theories of crime built from studies of male offenders can be applied to women, or whether they need...
- Hegemonic Masculinity
- A concept from gender sociology describing the dominant cultural script of manhood in a given society, typically emphasising toughness, control, and willingness...
- Radical Feminist Criminology
- A strand holding that patriarchy, meaning systemic male control over women, is the root cause of women's victimisation and of the leniency...
- Structured Action Theory
- James Messerschmidt's framework holding that people accomplish gender, race and class simultaneously through situated social action, of which crime can be one...
- Liberal Feminist Criminology
- A strand tracing gendered patterns of crime and justice mainly to unequal access to education, employment and legal rights.
- Socialist Feminist Criminology
- A strand combining patriarchy with class and capitalism to explain women's crime and the state's differential response to it.
Explained in these topics
- Feminist Criminology and Masculinities Theory (UGC-NET Unit IV)Candace West and Don Zimmerman's idea that gender is an ongoing social accomplishment achieved through interaction, not a fixed trait a person simply has.
- Feminist Criminology and Masculinities Theory