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If an individual is to act with proper demeanor and show proper deference, then it will be necessary for [her] to have areas of self-determination. [She] must have an expendable supply of the small indulgences which [her] society employs in its idiom of regard-such as cigarettes to give, chairs to proffer, food to provide, and so forth. [She] must have freedom of bodily movement so that it will be possible for [her] to assume a stance that conveys appropriate respect for others and appropriate demeanor on [her] own part⋯
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Erving Goffman, “The Arrangement between the Sexes,” Theory and Society 4, 3 (Fall 1977), pp. 301–331. I would like to acknowledge the helpful comments on earlier versions of this critique provided by Joan Roberts, Shepard Holdervy, Judith-Maris Hess Buechler, and Hans Buechler.
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Wedel, J.M. Ladies, we've been framed. Theor Soc 5, 113–125 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01880863
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