Doing Gender Beyond the Binary: A Virtual Ethnography

Doing Gender Beyond the Binary A Virtual Ethnography

This article advances the “doing gender” framework by highlighting some unique interactive challenges that nonbinary individuals encounter within the binary gender system. In order to access testimony about these experiences from a large group of people, this study turns to a genderqueer community o...

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Published in:Symbolic interaction Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 317 - 334
Main Author: Darwin, Helana
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Malden, US Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction 01-08-2017
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects:
Attribution
Content analysis
Discourse analysis
Ethnography
Gender
Gender roles
genderqueer
Non-binary gender
nonbinary
Qualitative research
Reddit
Social media
Symbolic interactionism
virtual ethnography
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Summary:This article advances the “doing gender” framework by highlighting some unique interactive challenges that nonbinary individuals encounter within the binary gender system. In order to access testimony about these experiences from a large group of people, this study turns to a genderqueer community on the social media site Reddit. Discourse analysis of discussion threads and content analysis of selfies reveal various symbolic mechanisms through which nonbinary people do, redo, and undo gender. These findings illuminate a range of strategies that people utilize to negotiate gender attribution within the gender binary system. A video abstract is available at http://tinyurl.com/y7odrxbd.
ISSN:0195-6086
1533-8665
DOI:10.1002/symb.316