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Please answer the below prompt in a 400 word essay:
Deutsch (2007) presents the landmark gender theory framework that gender is something that we perform through our engagement with other people. Rather than being a biological or social given that is constructed as a stable part of our identity, gender is created and recreated when we relate to each other. Yet Deutsch wants us to go further in advancing theories that help to dismantle rather than reinforce the gendered way that interaction is structured—as well as the perceived inequality that accompanies gendered interactions in society.
Miller (2006) might offer us one response to Deutsch’s call to action, as Miller highlights the importance of considering developmental change—not only human development theories—as part of a feminist perspective.
Thinking of your own experiences with how you position yourself or are positioned by others through your gender, race, and class, write an essay that explores the concept of “undoing” identity. Although this week’s readings focused on gender, your essay should explore all three aspects of identity. In particular, focus on how you have participated in supporting and/or unraveling perceived societal conventions on gender, race, and class. How might you have shifted the terrain of interaction beyond the structural limitations of your own (or someone else’s) gender, race, or class? Consider the power dynamics that have permitted your formation and expression of identity, alongside power dynamics that might have constrained it. Also think about the power dynamics that have allowed identity to matter more or matter less in a given set of interactions. Highlight how your experience of gender, race, and class has shifted throughout your life (i.e. changed as a result of your own development). Do you tend to “do identity” or try to “undo identity” in your own everyday exchanges with people in your life today?
You will be graded on the following criteria:
Well-framed: include an introduction that sets up your discussion and a conclusion that sums up your main ideas.
Inclusion of your own experiences as evidence: provide examples that are illustrative, appropriate, detailed, and balanced.
Use of concepts from this week as supporting theory: cite the readings using APA style and aim to demonstrate that you have understood them.
Coverage of all themes:
make sure to mention gender, race, and class;
make sure to consider how you have been both empowered and disempowered by “doing” and “undoing” identity;
make sure to emphasize how you have approached your identity in different ways at different moments in your life.
Writing style: use clear, clean, and formal (academic) prose.
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