From "Doing Gender" by Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman
The authors attempt to reconceptualize gender as a routine and recurring phenomenon grounded in social practices of everyday life. Their perspective involves analyzing gender as a complex of socially guided perceptual, interactional, and micropolitical activities that cast pursuits as manifestations of masculine and feminine "natures."
-The "doing gender" approach encompasses assessing the creation of differences between girls and boys and women and men that are not natural, essential, or biological.

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The authors argue that gender is a socially constructed phenomenon, and therefore, not natural, essential, or biological. They propose the "doing gender" approach to analyze how gender is actively performed and reinforced through everyday social practices.