01819nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100003000060245012000090260003000210300003200240520115200272650009301424773003001517942000701547952010701554  c532056d532056251202b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aDecoster, Ariël 958063  a‘POSTED: No trespassing’: On the performativity of property and gender as intertwined social practices of power  aSocial and Legal Studies   a34(6), Dec, 2025: p.881-895  aThis article aims to reconsider what property is and how it functions to critically scrutinise it as a matter of power. I rely on gender performativity theory to interpret contemporary research on property as a social practice and offer to think about property as equally performed. I suggest that property, just like gender, functions as a script for interpersonal engagement that determines what one can or cannot do and requires social recognition or enforcement as well as repetitive enactment to produce effect, that is, to operationalise a relationship of power. Reconceptualising property as performance also helps to elucidate how property participates in gendering the social world. Having argued that property and gender constitute intertwined practices of social power, I suggest that to perform property is, at least in some instances, to perform gender and vice versa. As a result, I contend that subversive gender practices can be read as subversive property practices and that property law constitutes a promising site for feminist theorising and reform.- Reproduced 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09646639241306981
  aProperty, Gender, Performativity, Social practice, power, Feminist legal theory. 958064  aSocial and Legal Studies   cAR  00102ddc40709407244aIIPAbIIPAd2025-12-02h34(6), Dec, 2025: p.881-895pAR137696r2025-12-02yAR