This cross-disciplinary study explores gender performance through beverage consumption, comparing alcoholic versus coffee-based beverages. Looking at beverages as a gendered text and the ordering of beverages as a gendered activity, this research reports on the ways people comply with or defy societal expectations based on observations complemented by the analysis of print and video advertisements; the assumption is that marketing campaigns gender coffee and alcoholic beverages. Bars, Cafes, consumers, and advertisements all play a role in gendering beverages as girly or macho. Various...