Topic > Identity and Gender - 1023

Judith Butler used the term "girled" to explain the way society has created binary gender categories: "The doctor who receives the baby and pronounces, 'It's a girl ' - begins that long string of interpellations with which the girl is transitively feminine: the gender is ritualistically repeated, so that repetition causes both the risk of failure and the frozen effect of sedimentation” [2, 49]. In childhood, parents create a specific discourse and label the girl's gender by choosing body ornaments appropriate to accepted norms of femininity, such as clothes of particular feminine colors: "a child dressed in pink is commonly expected to be sweet, graceful and cute" [6,91] and design, purchase appropriate toys and decorate the child with "girlish" accessories. Adults respond to the child according to the created self-fulfilling prophecy and create an atmosphere for the girl's development in a feminine setting..