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PublisherPolity Press

ISBN-100745622658

ISBN-139780745622651

eBay Product ID (ePID)110825749

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Number of Pages144 Pages

Publication NameMasculine Domination

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

SubjectDiscrimination & Race Relations, Men's Studies

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science

AuthorPierre Bourdieu

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal305.3

Table Of ContentPreface to the English edition: Eternalizing the arbitrary. Prelude. 1 A magnified image. 2 Anamnesis of the hidden constants. 3 Permanence and change. 4 Conclusion. 5 Postscript on domination and love. Appendix: Some questions on the gay and lesbian movement

Synopsis1. This is an important new book by Pierre Bourdieu - one of the leading social thinkers in the world today 2. It is the first book in which he has addressed questions of gender explicitly - hence it will be of great interest 3., Masculine domination is so deeply ingrained in our unconscious that we hardly perceive all of its dimensions. It is so much in line with our expectations that we struggle to call it fully into question. Pierre Bourdieu's ethnographic analysis of gender divisions in Kabyle society, as a living reservoir of the Mediterranean cultural tradition, provides a potent instrument for disclosing the symbolic structures of the androcentric unconscious which survives in the men and women of our own societies. Bourdieu analyses masculine domination as a paradigmatic form of symbolic violence - the kind of gentle, invisible, pervasive violence which is exercised through cognition and misrecognition, knowledge and sentiment, often with the unwitting consent of the dominated. To understand this form of domination we must analyse both its invariant features and the historical work of dehistoricization through which social institutions - family, school, church, state - eternalize the arbitrary at the root of men's power. This analysis leads directly to the political question: can we neutralize the mechanisms through which history is continuously turned into nature, thereby freeing the forces of change and accelerating the incipient transformations of the relations between the sexes? This new book by Pierre Bourdieu - which has been a bestseller in France - will be essential reading for students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities and for anyone concerned with questions of gender, sexuality and power., Masculine domination is so deeply ingrained in our unconscious that we hardly perceive all of its dimensions. It is so much in line with our expectations that we struggle to call it fully into question. Pierre Bourdieus ethnographic analysis of gender divisions in Kabyle society, as a living reservoir of the Mediterranean cultural tradition, provides a potent instrument for disclosing the symbolic structures of the androcentric unconscious which survives in the men and women of our own societies. Bourdieu analyses masculine domination as a paradigmatic form of symbolic violence - the kind of gentle, invisible, pervasive violence which is exercised through cognition and misrecognition, knowledge and sentiment, often with the unwitting consent of the dominated. To understand this form of domination we must analyse both its invariant features and the historical work of dehistoricization through which social institutions - family, school, church, state - eternalize the arbitrary at the root of mens power. This analysis leads directly to the political question: can we neutralize the mechanisms through which history is continuously turned into nature, thereby freeing the forces of change and accelerating the incipient transformations of the relations between the sexes? This new book by Pierre Bourdieu - which has been a bestseller in France - will be essential reading for students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities and for anyone concerned with questions of gender, sexuality and power.