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Reconfiguring Gender with John Dewey: Habit, Bodies, and Cultural Change
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 15, Number 1, Winter 2000
- pp. 23-42
- Article
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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, I provide an account of how rigid binary configurations of gender might be transformed at the level of both individual habit and cultural construct.