Cameron believes that gender is a fluid, everchanging embodiment of a person's expression of themselves in a given social context. In this sense, a person readily defines their gender within a community of practice by the way in which they present themselves through actions and behaviors, oral and written language usage, dress, intonation, word choice, and metamessages such as body language. Cumulative, all of these presentations are then weighed by those members of that community of practice against cultural norms thus creating a socially constructed, outward projection of their gender (49). This means that people are always projecting their internal gender through various facets of self-expression, and as such, they are constantly shifting this outward persona to accommodate for miscommunicated expressions, to align the persona with socially acceptable behaviors, language, and expression, to rebel against socially acceptable behaviors, language, and expression, or to express a newly found part of
Cameron believes that gender is a fluid, everchanging embodiment of a person's expression of themselves in a given social context. In this sense, a person readily defines their gender within a community of practice by the way in which they present themselves through actions and behaviors, oral and written language usage, dress, intonation, word choice, and metamessages such as body language. Cumulative, all of these presentations are then weighed by those members of that community of practice against cultural norms thus creating a socially constructed, outward projection of their gender (49). This means that people are always projecting their internal gender through various facets of self-expression, and as such, they are constantly shifting this outward persona to accommodate for miscommunicated expressions, to align the persona with socially acceptable behaviors, language, and expression, to rebel against socially acceptable behaviors, language, and expression, or to express a newly found part of