Abstract
This article works on two concepts: habitus, by Pierre Bourdieu, and gender performativity,
by Judith Butler. Both are developed with the aim to understand seduction practices of
young university‐student women living in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. Their speeches
about their own erotic practices are analyzed in the light of the contributions of each concept,
while they are developed in dialogue and in tension with the empirical data collected.
In these practices, the body plays a central role: the body is shown, is stylized, wishes and
tries to be desired, signifies and (re) signifies... At the same time, in both concepts, habitus as
well as gender performativity, body occupies a central role, hosting a somatization of power
relationships ‐in the former‐ and identity becomings medium and agent ‐in the latter‐. There
is a question that permeates the essay: in what ways these young women are holding on /
submitting to the heteronormative order of male domination, and what chances of disobedience,
transgression of sociocultural mandates they have within their own seduction practices,
uses and enjoyments of the body.