Management in/as comic relief : queer theory and gender performativity in The Office

Our discussion here focuses on gender performativity — the evocation of gender through stylized modes of interaction and the recitation of particular cultural norms — in the BBC comedy series The Office. We suggest that The Office can be read as a cultural text that brings sedimented ways of thinkin...

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Main Authors: Melissa Tyler, Laurie Cohen
Format: Default Article
Published: 2008
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Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified
Sociology not elsewhere classified
The Office
Queer theory
Judith Butler
Gender performativity
Parody
Sociology
Business and Management not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/4135
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