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Making The Boys Cry: The Performative Dimensions Of Fluid Gender, Shane Miller
Making The Boys Cry: The Performative Dimensions Of Fluid Gender, Shane Miller
Strategic Communication Studies Faculty Publications
This essay examines how young girls who participate in combat sports such as wrestling, a traditionally male stronghold, perform continually shifting gender identities that interweave physical traits and behaviors typically coded as masculine or feminine. Drawing upon auto-ethnographic and ethnographic methodologies, I demonstrate how a study of actual lived body experience grounded in a fluid conception of gender is able to remain sensitive to the unique performative gender work being done while providing a critical interrogation of the moments in which the performance of gender is inscribed as nonconformative. I suggest that if we wish to understand the gender dynamics …