Gender is not a natural binary but a social construct: gendered ascriptions are constructed by bodily, performative, discursive and legal norms, as well as material and aesthetic ones. Gender aside, other traits such as status, age, ethnicity and sexuality all play fundamental roles, coalescing to construct the person as an aggregate whole. Boys Don’t Cry by Giovanni Corabi elucidates the plurality in maleness by highlighting the nuanced ways in which gender, masculinity and sexuality can be constructed in aesthetic practices.
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