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Cross-Dressing with Jacques and Judy

Peter Benson ponders the construction and deconstruction of our traditional notions about gender.

According to Jacques Derrida, a distinctive feature of all language is its ‘citationality’. By this he means that any word can be ‘cited’, ‘quoted’, in a countless number of new and unpredictable contexts. The word will still be recognized as the same word, each and every time it appears. It is impossible to restrict, in advance, the range of contexts in which it could be cited. Language will always escape from every attempt to limit its possible uses.

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