Gender and Habit: John Dewey and Iris Marion Young on Embodiment and Transformation

researchers carolyn pedwell and shannon sullivan have begun to examine how habit can help us better understand the concept and lived experience of gender and how habit can act as a tool for enacting social change. John Dewey’s pragmatism also inquires into how individuals can and should act and respond to their conditions and peers in constantly changing times. Through bringing together Iris Marion Young’s analysis of feminine body comportment in her essay “Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality” and Dewey’s framework of habit that he develops in his book Human Nature and...