Review: Dozier, Raine. “’You Look Like a Dude, Dude’: Masculine Females Undoing Gender in the Workplace”. In Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 66, Issue 9, 2019, pp. 1219-1237.

Abstract

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Raine Dozier’s essay “You Look Like a Dude, Dude’: Masculine Females Undoing Gender in the Workplace’” (2019) examines liminal categories of gender expression and embodiment like masculine females and their capability of ‘undoing gender’ in the workplace. This may be carried out due to their potential to reveal and interrogate naturalized accounts of men and women in theoretical discussions of gender. The process of “doing gender” perpetuates and naturalizes hegemonic masculinities (Dozier 1219). It creates gender binaries which lead to a conflation of gender performativity, biological sex and sexual orientation. It suggests that subordinate masculinities are ontologically a male domain and pariah femininities a female domain for people embodying gender nonconformity. It also does not account for liminal categories of gender expression that otherwise fall on the gender spectrum.