Femininity is imposed for the most part through an unremitting discipline thatconcerns every partof the body and is continuously recalled through the con-straints of clothing or hairstyle.The antagonistic principles of male and femaleidentity are thus laid down in the form of permanent stances, gaits, postureswhich are the realization, or rather, the naturalization of an ethic.
-Pierre Bourdieu1
The view that gender is performative sought to show that what we take to be aninternal essence of gender is manufactured through a sustained set of acts, positedthrough the gendered stylization of the body.-Judith Butler?
The task of "measuring up" to one's gender is faced again and again in differentsituations with respect to different particulars of conduct. The problem involvedis to produce configurations of behavior which can be seen by others as normativegender behavior.-Sarah Fenstermaker, Candace West, and Don Zimmerman3