Reconfiguring Gender with John Dewey: Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change

Hypatia 15 (1):23-42 (2000)
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This paper demonstrates how John Dewey's notion of habit can help us understand gender as a constitutive structure of bodily existence. Bringing Dewey's pragmatism in conjunction with Judith Butler's concept of performativity, 1 provide an account of how rigid binary configurations of gender might be transformed at the level of both individual habit and cultural construct.

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Shannon Sullivan
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