“…Thus, as McLaren () charges, Foucault considers that the individual more or less performs the sum of her/his life history in the same way as an artwork displays symbolic performances and configurations. The present survey encompasses gender recognition (doing gender and socially constructed) and sex differences (biological sex) as conceived by feminist theorists (Connell , West & Zimmerman ) and previously used by the author as guiding theoretical principles in text analysis (Brännström ,b,Brännström ). In addition, two theoretical and methodological guiding principles are also considered here (Byrne , Pullen ).…”