{"id":698,"date":"2008-04-29T02:36:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T07:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/29\/illustrating-gender-as-performance\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T23:56:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:56:50","slug":"illustrating-gender-as-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/29\/illustrating-gender-as-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrating Gender as Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/waywardelf.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/creepy-ads.html\">Andrea G.<\/a> in Switzerland snapped these pictures of an ad campaign for TerraSuisse natural agriculture. Their tagline translates as &#8220;TerraSuisse guarantees natural Swiss agriculture.&#8221; They might be useful for a discussion of doing gender (West and colleagues) or gender as performativity (Butler). As Andrea S. noted, it&#8217;s obvious instantly that the bird is supposed to be female and the chipmunk male by their pose alone.<\/p>\n<p>Posed like a chick:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/chickpose-big.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/chickpose-small.jpg\" alt=\"chick pose\" width=\"301\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posed like a dude:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/dudepose-big.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/dudepose-small.jpg\" alt=\"dude pose\" width=\"301\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They might, also, be a nice contrast to this one for which a gender is not immediately apparent (to me&#8230;but who knows in Switzerland):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/nongender-pose.jpg\" alt=\"Is there a gender here?\" width=\"292\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Andrea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea G. in Switzerland snapped these pictures of an ad campaign for TerraSuisse natural agriculture. Their tagline translates as &#8220;TerraSuisse guarantees natural Swiss agriculture.&#8221; They might be useful for a discussion of doing gender (West and colleagues) or gender as performativity (Butler). As Andrea S. noted, it&#8217;s obvious instantly that the bird is supposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,2123,2124,55,2096,2087,1805,120],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-environmentnature","tag-foodagriculture","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-nation-switzerland","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17356,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/17356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}