Undoing Gender
本文反思了“做性别”理论在解释性别不平等持续性上的局限，提出应转向研究如何“消解性别”，即探讨社会互动何时及如何减少性别化、性别是否可能无关紧要，以及制度与互动层面如何协同促成改变。
“Doing Gender,” West and Zimmerman's (1987) landmark article, highlighted the importance of social interaction, thus revealing the weaknesses of socialization and structural approaches. However, despite its revolutionary potential for illuminating how to dismantle the gender system, doing gender has become a theory of gender persistence and the inevitability of inequality. In this article, the author argues that we need to reframe the questions to ask how we can undo gender. Research should focus on (1) when and how social interactions become less gendered, (2) whether gender can be irrelevant in interaction, (3) whether gendered interactions always underwrite inequality, (4) how the institutional and interactional levels work together to produce change, and (5) interaction as the site of change.