Race is another important axis to add in there that has a huge effect on gender identity and expression and who gets to be considered masculine and feminine, and class, too, in more amorphous ways in the US and Canada, than in Europe probably.
I have an idea of what you mean by gender importance, but what you have in parentheses modifying it confuses me.
I'd also go for a more amorphous form than a continuum because constructions of the extremes of masculinity and femininity are multiple and incoherent, which is another reason why the binary doesn't work..
And also how you perceive your gender identity and expression and how others perceive you, and which of those others have varying degrees of influence on you, and how your social group and your place in it changes, are all factors that aren't always coherently covered when we use gendered terms. Wheee!
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Date: 2009-07-06 03:17 am (UTC)I have an idea of what you mean by gender importance, but what you have in parentheses modifying it confuses me.
I'd also go for a more amorphous form than a continuum because constructions of the extremes of masculinity and femininity are multiple and incoherent, which is another reason why the binary doesn't work..
And also how you perceive your gender identity and expression and how others perceive you, and which of those others have varying degrees of influence on you, and how your social group and your place in it changes, are all factors that aren't always coherently covered when we use gendered terms. Wheee!