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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Shannon Sullivan
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Abstract

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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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , Winter 2000 , pp. 23 - 42
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Copyright © 2000 by Hypatia, Inc.

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