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An interdisciplinary term often used to name the capacity of speech and language in particular (as well as other non-verbal forms of expressive action) to intervene in the course of human events

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  • So it might be something like "gender and modernism" or "performativity" - just so I can find what I'm looking for when I'm looking for it.
  • But the idea of performativity gives us hope that we might be able to reenact gender differently, to see genders that aren't there for us right now 133.
  • I contend that "performativity" in the sense of the way a dance,
  • Or perhaps performativity is a type of social construction.
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