The Body is the most indisputable materialization of class taste in that one's hairstyle, clothing, diet, and even gait function as signs within a larger system of social positions.
A Body is a body with reflexes and anticipatory qualities, a body that is constantly in-becoming
Gender is not an effect caused by the body. Rather, the sexed body is a discursive effect of gendered thinking.
Gender is a stylized repetition of acts, a constructed identity, a performative accomplishment which the mundane social audience, including the actors themselves, come to believe and to perform in the mode of belief.
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act, a "doing" rather than a "being".
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