Gender as social practice: doing, saying and performing gender relations

What is it about?

Introduction to special issue on Gender as social practice. How gender is constantly redefined and negotiated in the everyday practices through which individuals interact, how men and women ‘do gender’, and how they contribute to the construction of gender identities by engaging in a process of reciprocal positioning.

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Why is it important?

The practice approach enables the idea of gender as situated social practice, or, in other words, something actualised through social interaction. Moreover it induces a rethinking of research methods and processes, in the awareness that every research practice is at the same time a gender practice.