Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our
unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it is so much in line with
our expectations that we find it difficult to call into question.
Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of Kabyle society provides instruments
to help us understand the most concealed aspects of the relations
between the sexes in our own societies, and to break the bonds of
deceptive familiarity that tie us to our own tradition.
Bourdieu analyzes masculine domination as a prime example of
symbolic violence--the kind of gentle, invisible, pervasive
violence exercised through the everyday practices of social life.
To understand this form of domination we must also analyze the
social mechanisms and institutions--family, school, church, and
state--that transform history into nature and eternalize the
arbitrary. Only in this way can we open up the possibilities for a
kind of political action that can put history in motion again by
neutralizing the mechanisms that have naturalized and
dehistoricized the relations between the sexes.
This new book by Pierre Bourdieu--which has been a bestseller in
France--will be essential reading for anyone concerned with
questions of gender and sexuality and with the structures that
shape our social, political, and personal lives.
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