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Thinking Feminism with and against Bourdieu
Terry Lovell
University of Warwick
This article argues that a positive engagement between Bourdieu’s sociology of practice and contemporary feminist theory would be mutually profitable. It compares Bourdieu’s account of the social construction of the human subject through practice with Butler’s account of subjectivity as performance. While the one, through the concept of habitus, tends towards an ‘overdetermined’ view of subjectivity in which subjective dispositions are too tightly tied to the social practices in which they were forged, the other pays insufficient attention to the social conditions of performative subversion. The second half of the paper looks at feminist studies of the relationship between class and gender which have drawn fruitfully on Bourdieu’s work, particularly on his concept of ‘cultural capital’, such as those of Moi and Skeggs.
Key Words: class • gender • passing • performance • practice • social identity
Feminist Theory, Vol. 1, No. 1,
11-32 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/14647000022229047
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