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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10.1111/j.1527-2001.2000.tb01078.x

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The constraints of habit: craft, repetition, and creativity.Wendy Ross & Vlad Glăveanu - forthcoming - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences:1-21.

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The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory.Marilyn Frye - 1983 - Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press.
The psychic life of power: theories in subjection.Judith Butler - 1997 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.

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