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In reference to rites of passage

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Many of these define the gender identities of those involved, by making them into certain types of men and women.

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Gender

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Principally a social performance, enacted by individuals in reference to the society around them. Is there something consistent in cross-cultural gender roles of men and women, which can explain universal between the sexes.

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Foucault

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Claimed that the concept of fixed gender identities emerged during the 19th century. Gender is a practice that must be enacted, rather than a fact that simply exists.

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Butler

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Redefined gender as social performance.

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Queer theory

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Since the 1990s it has questioned the relationship between sex and gender. The framing of gender as social performance helps us to understand important questions about relations between the sexes.

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Ortner

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Claims the subordination of women to men is a human universal. Biological differences do not fully explain sexual inequality.

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Female bodies

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Are more explicitly related to the natural processes of procreation than male bodies. This therefore place women in domestic roles that are less socially valued.

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Gender role of women

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This creates a ‘feminine psyche’ that perpetuates exclusion from the public sphere.

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Cultural restrictions

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On women’d activities are due to their associations with the domestic sphere. Ortner’s analysis shows that even universal features of gender identifies are social constructs.

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Third gender

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People who are neither male nor female play an important part in defining societal gender roles.

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Hijra

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Indian Hijra force men and women to confront and reiterate their gender identify.

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Outside of ritual frameworks

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Cultural practices such as ‘drag’ perform similar functions

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Different genders

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Compliment one another, and people’s identities change according to their social actions.